rm to the love of abstract
beauty" and "from the contemplation of his own suffering to the
consideration of the root of all human suffering."

As regards the modern poetic literature of feminine homosexuality
there is probably nothing to put beside the various
volumes--pathetic in their brave simplicity and sincerity--of
"Renee Vivien" (see _ante_, p. 200). Most other feminine singers
of homosexuality have cautiously thrown a veil of heterosexuality
over their songs.

Novels of a more or less definitely homosexual tone are now very
numerous in English, French, German, and other languages. In
English the homosexuality is for the most part veiled and the
narrative deals largely with school-life and boys in order that
the emotional and romantic character of the relations described
may appear more natural. Thus _Tim_, an anonymously published
book by H.O. Sturgis (1891), described the devotion of a boy to
an older boy at Eton and his death at an early age. _Jaspar
Tristram_, by A.W. Clarke (1899), again, is a well-written story
of a schoolboy friendship of homosexual tone; a boy is
represented as feeling attraction to boys who are like girls, and
a girl became attractive to the hero because she is like a boy
and recalls her brother whom he had formerly loved. _The Garden
God: A Tale of Two Boys_, by Forrest Reid (1905), is another
rather similar book, in its way a charming and delicately written
idyll. _Imre: A Memorandum_, (1906), by "Xavier Mayne" (the
pseudonym of an American author, who has also written _The
Intersexes_), privately issued at Naples, is a book of a
different class; representing the frankly homosexual passion of
two mutually attracted men, an Englishman who is supposed to
write the story and a Hungarian officer; it embodies a notable
narrative of homosexual development which is probably more or
less real.

In French there are a number of novels dealing with
homosexuality, sometimes sympathetically, sometimes with artistic
indifference, sometimes satirically. Andre Gide (in
_L'Immoraliste_ and other books), Rachilde (Madame Vallette),
Willy (in the well-known _Claudine_ series) may be mentioned,
among other writers of more or less distinction, who have once or
oftener dealt with homosexuality. Special reference should be
made to the Belgian author