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ions_ 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 composers in fine, broad, sweeping strokes with a magnificent disregard for unimportant details.... A distinctly original and very valuable contribution to the world's tiny musical literature."--J.F. RUNCIMAN, in _London Saturday Review_. * * * * * FRANZ LISZT _WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS_ 12mo. $2.00 net * * * * * CHOPIN: The Man and His Music _WITH ETCHED PORTRAIT_ 12mo. $2.00 net * * * * * VISIONARIES 12mo. $1.50 net CONTENTS: A Master of Cobwebs--The Eighth Deadly Sin--The Purse of Aholibah--Rebels of the Moon--The Spiral Road--A Mock Sun--Antichrist--The Eternal Duel--The Enchanted Yodler--The Third Kingdom--The Haunted Harpsichord--The Tragic Wall--A Sentimental Rebellion--Hall of the Missing Footsteps--The Cursory Light--An Iron Fan--The Woman Who Loved Chopin--The Tune of Time--Nada--Pan. "In 'The Spiral Road' and in some of the other stories both fantasy and narrative may be compared with Hawthorne in his most unearthly moods. The younger man has read his Nietzsche and has cast off his heritage of simple morals. Hawthorne's Puritanism finds no echo in these modern souls, all sceptical, wavering and unblessed. But Hawthorne's splen
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