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Hervieu--The Quintessence of Shaw--Maxim Gorky's Nachtasyl--Hermann Sudennann--Princess Mathilde's Play--Duse and D'Annunzio--Villiers de l'lsle Adam--Maurice Maeterlinck. "His style is a little jerky, but it is one of those rare styles in which we are led to expect some significance, if not wit, in every sentence."--G.K. Chesterton, _in London Daily News._ "No other book in English has surveyed the whole field so comprehensively."--The Outlook. "A capital book, lively, informing, suggestive."--London Times Saturday Review. "Eye-opening and mind-clarifying is Mr. Huneker's criticism; ... no one having read that opening essay in this volume will lay it down until the final judgment upon Maurice Maeterlinck is reached."--Boston Transcript. OVERTONES: A Book of Temperaments _WITH FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF RICHARD STRAUSS_ 12mo. $1.25 net CONTENTS: Richard Strauss--Parsifal: A Mystical Melodrama--Literary Men who loved Music (Balzac, Turgenieff, Daudet, etc.)--The Eternal Feminine--The Beethoven of French Prose--Nietzsche the Rhapsodist--Anarchs of Art--After Wagner, What?--Verdi and Boito. "The whole book is highly refreshing with its breadth of knowledge, its catholicity of taste, and its inexhaustible energy."--_Saturday Review, London._ "In some respects Mr. Huneker must be reckoned the most brilliant of all living writers on matters musical."--_Academy, London._ "No modern musical critic has shown greater ingenuity in the attempt to correlate the literary and musical tendencies of the nineteenth century."--_Spectator, London._ BOOKS BY JAMES HUNEKER EGOISTS _A BOOK OF SUPERMEN_ Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barres, Hello, Blake, Nietzsche, Ibsen and Max Stirner. With portrait of Stendhal, unpublished letter of Flaubert, and original proof page of "Madame Bovary." 12mo. $1.50 net "The best thing in the book happily comes first, the essay on Stendhal. Closely and yet lightly written, full of facts yet as amusing as a bit of discursive talk, penetrating, candid and very shrewd, this study would be hard to beat in English, or, for that matter, in French. It is, too, the best of the essays as regards discrimination. There are no shades of Stendhal's genius, whether making for good or for ill, that are missed by this analyst, and, moreover, both the lights and shadows are justly distributed... He seeks to show you the color of a man's mind, and it is
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