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Title: Ivory Apes and Peacocks

Author: James Huneker

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IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS

[Illustration: DOSTOIEVSKY, BY VALLOTON]

IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS

JOSEPH CONRAD, WALT WHITMAN,
JULES LAFORGUE, DOSTOIEVSKY AND TOLSTOY,
SCHOENBERG, WEDEKIND, MOUSSORGSKY,
CEZANNE, VERMEER, MATISSE, VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN,
ITALIAN FUTURISTS, VARIOUS LATTER-DAY POETS,
PAINTERS, COMPOSERS AND DRAMATISTS

BY
JAMES HUNEKER

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1915

To
JOHN QUINN

"Every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing
gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks."
--_II Chronicles_ 9. 21.

CONTENTS

PAGE
I. THE GENIUS OF JOSEPH CONRAD 1

II. A VISIT TO WALT WHITMAN 22

III. THE BUFFOON OF THE NEW ETERNITIES: JULES
LAFORGUE 32

IV. DOSTOIEVSKY AND TOLSTOY, AND THE YOUNGER
CHOIR OF RUSSIAN WRITERS 52

V. I. ARNOLD SCHOENBERG 89
II. MUSIC OF TO-DAY AND