the Commune, or of 1848, or the days of
'Hernani.' It is the same with New York's East Side, 'the fabulous East
Side,' as Mr. Huneker calls it in his collection of international urban
studies, 'The New Cosmopolis.' If one judged externals by grime, by
poverty, by sanded back-rooms, with long-haired visionaries assailing
the social order, then the East Side of the early eighties has gone down
before the mad rush of settlement workers, impertinent reformers,
sociological cranks, self-advertising politicians, billionaire
socialists, and the reporters. To-day the sentimental traveller 'feels a
heart-pang to see the order, the cleanliness, the wide streets, the
playgrounds, the big boulevards, the absence of indigence that have
spoiled the most interesting part of New York City.' But apparently this
is only a first impression; for Mr. Huneker had no trouble in
discovering in one cafe a patriarchal figure quite of 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

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NEW COSMOPOLIS

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THE PATHOS _of_ DISTANCE

A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

12mo. $2.00 net

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PROMENADES _of an_ IMPRESSIONIST

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"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_.

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EGOISTS

A Book of Supermen

STENDHAL, BAUDELAIRE, FLAUBERT, ANATOLE FRANCE, HUYSMANS, BARRES, HELLO,
BLAKE, NIETZSCHE, IBSEN, AND MAX STIRNER

_With Portrait and Facsimile Reproduct