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the type beloved of the local-color hunters of twenty years ago, a prophet, though speaking a modern language and concerned with things of the day. So that we owe to Mr. Huneker the discovery of a notable truth, namely, that Bohemia is not only a creation of the sentimental memory, but, being psychological, may be located in clean and prosperous quarters. The tendency has always been to place it in a golden age, but a tattered and unswept age. Bohemia is now shown to exist amidst model tenements and sanitary drinking-cups." IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS With frontispiece portrait of Dostoievsky 12mo. $1.50 net NEW COSMOPOLIS 12mo. $1.50 net THE PATHOS of DISTANCE A Book of a Thousand and One Moments 12mo. $2.00 net PROMENADES of an IMPRESSIONIST 12mo. $1.50 net "We like best such sober essays as those which analyze for us the technical contributions of Cezanne and Rodin. Here Mr. Huneker is a real interpreter, and here his long experience of men and ways in art counts for much. Charming, in the lighter vein, are such appreciations as the Monticelli, and Chardin." --FRANK JEWETT MATHER, JR., in New York Nation and Evening Post. EGOISTS A Book of Supermen STENDHAL, BAUDELAIRE, FLAUBERT, ANATOLE FRANCE, HUYSMANS, BARRES, HELLO, BLAKE, NIETZSCHE, IBSEN, AND MAX STIRNER With Portrait and Facsimile Reproductions 12mo. $1.50 net ICONOCLASTS: A Book of Dramatists 12mo. $1.50 net CONTENTS: Henrik Ibsen--August Strindberg--Henry Becque-- Gerhart Hauptmann--Paul Hervieu--The Quintessence of Shaw-- Maxim Gorky's Nachtasyl--Hermann Sudermann--Princess Mathilde's Play--Duse and D'Annunzio--Villiers de l'Isle 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. OVERTONES: A Book of Temperaments WITH FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT Of RICHARD STRAUSS 12mo. $1.50 net "In some respects Mr. Huneker must be reckoned the most brilliant of all living writers on matters musical." --Academy, London. MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC BRAHMS, TSCHAIKOWSKY, CHOPIN. RICHARD STRAUSS, LISZT, AND WAGNER 12mo. $1.50 net "Mr. Huneker is, in the best sense, a critic; he listens to the music and gives you his impressions as rapidly and in as few words as possible; or he sketches the compose
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