_BY JAMES HUNEKER_ MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC (1899) CHOPIN: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC (1900) MELOMANIACS (1902) OVERTONES (1904) ICONOCLASTS: A BOOK OF DRAMATISTS (1905) VISIONARIES (1905) EGOISTS: A BOOK OF SUPERMEN (1909) PROMENADES OF AN IMPRESSIONIST (1910) FRANZ LISZT. ILLUSTRATED (1911) THE PATHOS OF DISTANCE (1912) NEW COSMOPOLIS (1915) IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS (1915) UNICORNS (1917) BEDOUINS (1920) _In Preparation_ STEEPLEJACK. TWO VOLUMES _CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS_ BEDOUINS [Illustration: _From a photograph by De Meyer_ MARY GARDEN--HERSELF] BEDOUINS MARY GARDEN, DEBUSSY, CHOPIN OR THE CIRCUS, BOTTICELLI, POE, BRAHMSODY, ANATOLE FRANCE, MIRBEAU, CARUSO ON WHEELS, CALICO CATS, THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT; IDOLS AND AMBERGRIS; WITH THE SUPREME SIN, GRINDSTONES, A MASQUE OF MUSIC, AND THE VISION MALEFIC BY JAMES HUNEKER WITH VARIOUS PORTRAITS OF MARY GARDEN IN OPERATIC COSTUME NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Published February, 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE NEW YORK TIMES CO. COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE ESS ESS PUBLISHING CO. COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE SUN PRINTING & PUBLISHING ASSN. THIS BOOK OF BEDOUINS IS DEDICATED “À la très-belle, à la très-bonne, à la très-chère.” “J’aime mieux le désert, je retourne chez les Bédouins qui sont libres....” _Gustave Flaubert._ “The Bedouins camp within Pharaoh’s palace walls, and the old war-ship is given over to the rats.” _Robert Louis Stevenson._ CONTENTS _PART I_--MARY GARDEN CHAPTER PAGE I. SUPERWOMAN 3 II. INTIMATE 15 III. THE BABY, THE CRITIC, AND THE GUITAR 21 IV. INTERPRETER 30 V. MÉLISANDE AND DEBUSSY 45 VI. THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT 53 VII. THE PASSING OF OCTAVE MIRBEAU 64