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.