OVERTONES
Books by James Huneker
Overtones: A Book of Temperaments. With Frontispiece. $1.25, net.
Melomaniacs. 12mo. $1.50.
Chopin: The Man and His Music. With Portrait. $2.00.
Mezzotints in Modern Music. 12mo. $1.50.
Richard Strauss. (signature)
OVERTONES
A BOOK OF TEMPERAMENTS
RICHARD STRAUSS, PARSIFAL, VERDI, BALZAC,
FLAUBERT, NIETZSCHE, AND TURGÉNIEFF
BY
JAMES HUNEKER
Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then, I contradict myself.
Walt Whitman
WITH PORTRAIT
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1904
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published March, 1904.
TO
RICHARD STRAUSS
A MUSIC-MAKER OF INDIVIDUAL STYLE
A SUPREME MASTER OF THE ORCHESTRA
AN ANARCH OF ART
THIS SHEAF OF STUDIES
IS ADMIRINGLY INSCRIBED