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Title: Visionaries

Author: James Huneker

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Language: English

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VISIONARIES

BY

JAMES HUNEKER

J'aime les nuages ... la bas...!

BAUDELAIRE

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1916

COPYRIGHT, 1905,
BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published October, 1905.

A
MON CHER MAITRE

REMY DE GOURMONT
PARIS

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. A MASTER OF COBWEBS 1

II. THE EIGHTH DEADLY SIN 23

III. THE PURSE OF AHOLIBAH 44

IV. REBELS OF THE MOON 64

V. THE SPIRAL ROAD 80

VI. A MOCK SUN 110

VII. ANTICHRIST 135

VIII. THE ETERNAL DUEL 145

IX. THE ENCHANTED YODLER 149

X. THE THIRD KINGDOM 168

XI. THE HAUNTED HARPSICHORD 188

XII. THE TRAGIC WALL 203

XIII. A SENTIMENTAL REBELLION 227

XIV. HALL OF THE MISSING FOOTSTEPS 249

XV. THE CURSORY LIGHT 266

XVI. AN IRON FAN 278

XVII. THE WOMAN WHO LOVED CHOPIN 289

XVIII. THE TUNE OF TIME 309

XIX. NADA 326

XX. PAN 332

VISIONARIES

I

A MASTER OF COBWEBS

I

Alixe Van Kuyp sat in the first-tier box presented to her husband with
the accustomed heavy courtesy of the Societe Harmonique. She went early
to the hall that she might hear the entire music-making of the
evening--Van Kuyp's tone-poem, Sordello, was on the programme between a
Weber overture and a Beethoven symphony, an unusual honour for a youn