JAMES HUNEKER

WITH PORTRAIT OF STENDHAL; UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF
FLAUBERT; AND ORIGINAL PROOF PAGE OF MADAME BOVARY

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1909

Henry Beyle — Stendhal — Redrawn by Edwin B. Child from a crayon portrait.

TO
DR. GEORG BRANDES
"Leb' Ich, wenn andere leben?"—Goethe

The studies gathered here first appeared in Scribner's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the North American Review, the New York Times, and the New York Sun.

CONTENTS
I.[A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION: HENRY BEYLE-STENDHAL]
II.[THE BAUDELAIRE LEGEND]
III.[THE REAL FLAUBERT]
IV.[ANATOLE FRANCE]
V.[THE PESSIMISTS' PROGRESS: J.-K. HUYSMANS]
VI.[THE EVOLUTION OF AN EGOIST: MAURICE BARRÈS]
VII.[PHASES OF NIETZSCHE]
I.[THE WILL TO SUFFER]
II.[NIETZSCHE'S APOSTASY]
III.[ANTICHRIST?]
VIII.[MYSTICS]
I.[ERNEST HELLO]
II.["MAD NAKED BLAKE"]
III.[FRANCIS POICTEVIN]
IV.[THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS]
V.[FROM AN IVORY TOWER]
IX.[IBSEN]
X.[MAX STIRNER]

I

A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION

HENRY BEYLE-STENDHAL