BOOKS BY JAMES HUNEKER
ICONOCLASTS:
A Book of Dramatists
12mo. $1.50 net
CONTENTS: Henrik Ibsen—August Strindberg—Henry Becque—Gerhart
Hauptmann—Paul Hervieu—The Quintessence of Shaw—Maxim Gorky's
Nachtasyl—Hermann Sudennann—Princess Mathilde's Play—Duse and
D'Annunzio—Villiers de l'lsle Adam—Maurice Maeterlinck.
"His style is a little jerky, but it is one of those rare styles in which we are led to expect some significance, if not wit, in every sentence."—G.K. Chesterton, in London Daily News.
"No other book in English has surveyed the whole field so comprehensively."—The Outlook.
"A capital book, lively, informing, suggestive."—London Times
Saturday Review.
"Eye-opening and mind-clarifying is Mr. Huneker's criticism; … no one having read that opening essay in this volume will lay it down until the final judgment upon Maurice Maeterlinck is reached."—Boston Transcript.
OVERTONES:
A Book of Temperaments
WITH FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF RICHARD STRAUSS
12mo. $1.25 net
CONTENTS: Richard Strauss—Parsifal: A Mystical Melodrama—Literary
Men who loved Music (Balzac, Turgenieff, Daudet, etc.)—The Eternal
Feminine—The Beethoven of French Prose—Nietzsche the
Rhapsodist—Anarchs of Art—After Wagner, What?—Verdi and Boito.
"The whole book is highly refreshing with its breadth of knowledge, its catholicity of taste, and its inexhaustible energy."—Saturday Review, London.
"In some respects Mr. Huneker must be reckoned the most brilliant of all living writers on matters musical."—Academy, London.
"No modern musical critic has shown greater ingenuity in the attempt to correlate the literary and musical tendencies of the nineteenth century."—Spectator, London.