CONTENTS

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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]