CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| I. | Richard Strauss | [1] |
| II. | Parsifal—A Mystic Melodrama | [64] |
| The Book | [73] | |
| The Music | [91] | |
| III. | Nietzsche the Rhapsodist | [109] |
| IV. | Literary Men who loved Music | [142] |
| The Musical Taste of Turgénieff | [142] | |
| Balzac as Music Critic | [161] | |
| Alphonse Daudet | [179] | |
| George Moore | [188] | |
| Evelyn Innes | [188] | |
| Sister Teresa | [199] | |
| V. | Anarchs of Art | [214] |
| VI. | The Beethoven of French Prose | [228] |
| Flaubert and his Art | [228] | |
| The Two Salammbôs | [244] | |
| VII. | Verdi and Boïto | [256] |
| Boïto’s Mefistofele | [272] | |
| VIII. | The Eternal Feminine | [277] |
| IX. | After Wagner—What? | [307] |
| The Caprice of the Musical Cat | [307] | |
| Wagner and the French | [321] | |
| Isolde and Tristan | [327] |
I
RICHARD STRAUSS
We cannot understand what we do not love.
—Elisée Reclus.