* * * * * “The Mercure de France translated the other day from Scribner’s one of the best studies which have been written on Stendhal for a long time, in which there was no evasion of the question of Stendhal’s immorality. The author of that article, James Huneker, is, among foreign critics, the one best acquainted with French literature and the one who judges us with the greatest sympathy and with the most freedom. He has protested with force in numerous American journals against the campaign of defamation against France and he has easily proved that those who participate in it are ignorant and fanatical.”--“_Promenades Littéraires_” (_Troisième Série_), _Remy de Gourmont._ (Translated by Burton Rascoe for the Chicago _Tribune_.) * * * * * Paul Bourget wrote, Lundi de Paques, 1909, of “Egoists”: “I have browsed through the pages of your book and found that you touch in a sympathetic style on diverse problems, artistic and literary. In the case of Stendhal your catholicity of treatment is extremely rare and courageous.” * * * * * Dr. Georg Brandes, the versatile and profound Danish critic, wrote: “I find your breadth of view and its expression more European than American; but the essential thing is that you are an artist to your very marrow.” UNICORNS “The essays are short, full of a satisfying--and fascinating--crispness, both memorable and delightful. And they are full of fancy, too, of the gayest humor, the quickest appreciation, the gentlest sympathy, sometimes of an enchanting extravagance.” --_New York Times._ MELOMANIACS “It would be difficult to sum up ‘Melomaniacs’ in a phrase. Never did a book, in my opinion at any rate, exhibit greater contrasts, not, perhaps, of strength and weakness, but of clearness and obscurity.” --HAROLD E. GORST, in _London Saturday Review_ (Dec. 8, 1906). VISIONARIES “In ‘The Spiral Road’ and in some of the other stories both fantasy and narrative may be compared with Hawthorne in his most unearthly moods. The younger man has read his Nietzsche and has cast off his heritage of simple morals. Hawthorne’s Puritanism finds no echo in these modern souls, all sceptical, wavering, and unblessed. But Hawthorne’s splendor of vision and his power of sympathy with a tormented mind do live again in the best of Mr. Huneker’s stories.” --_London Academy_ (Feb. 3, 1906). ICONOCLASTS: A Book of Dramatists “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_. MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC