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| I. | The Genius of Joseph Conrad | [1] |
| II. | A Visit to Walt Whitman | [22] |
| III. | The Buffoon of the New Eternities: Jules Laforgue | [32] |
| IV. | Dostoïevsky and Tolstoy, and the Younger Choir of Russian Writers | [52] |
| V. | I. Arnold Schoenberg | [89] |
| | II. Music of To-Day and To-Morrow | [104] |
| VI. | Frank Wedekind | [121] |
| VII. | The Magic Vermeer | [141] |
| VIII. | Richard Strauss at Stuttgart | [153] |
| IX. | Max Liebermann and Some Phases of Modern German Art | [173] |
| X. | A Musical Primitive: Modeste Moussorgsky | [190] |
| XI. | New Plays by Hauptmann, Sudermann, and Schnitzler | [203] |
| XII. | Kubin, Munch, and Gauguin: Masters of Hallucination | [222] |
| XIII. | The Cult of the Nuance: Lafcadio Hearn | [240] |
| XIV. | I. The Melancholy of Masterpieces | [249] |
| | II. The Italian Futurist Painters | [262] |
| XV. | In the Workshop of Zola | [275] |
| XVI. | A Study of De Maupassant | [288] |
| XVII. | Puvis de Chavannes | [301] |
| XVIII. | Three Disagreeable Girls | [311] |