“Mr. James Huneker, critic of music in the first place, is a craftsman of diverse accomplishment who occupies a distinctive and distinguished place among present-day American essayists. He is intensely ‘modern,’ well read in recent European writers, and not lacking sympathy with the more rebellious spirits. Ancient serenity has laid no chastening hand on his thought and style, but he has achieved at times a fineness of expression that lifts his work above that of the many eager and artistic souls who strive to be the thinkers of New England to-day. He flings off his impressions at fervent heat; he is not ashamed to be enthusiastic; and he cannot escape that large sentimentality which, to less disciplined transatlantic writers, is known nakedly as ‘heart interest.’ Out of his chaos of reading and observation he has, however, evolved a criticism of life that makes for intellectual cultivation, although it is of a Bohemian rather than an academic kind. Given a different environment, another training, Mr. Huneker might have emerged as an American Walter Pater.”--_London Athenæum_ (November 6, 1915). FRANZ LISZT _WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS_ CHOPIN: The Man and His Music OVERTONES: A Book of Temperaments _WITH FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF RICHARD STRAUSS_ “In some respects Mr. Huneker must be reckoned the most brilliant of all living writers on matters musical.” --_Academy, London._ THE PATHOS OF DISTANCE A Book of a Thousand and One Moments “He talks about Bergson as well as Matisse; he never can keep still about Wagner; he hauls over his French library of modern immortals, and he gives a touch to George Moore, to Arthur Davies, and to many another valiant worker in paint, music, and letters. The book is stimulating; brilliant even with an unexpected brilliancy.”--_Chicago Tribune._ PROMENADES OF AN IMPRESSIONIST “We like best such sober essays as those which analyze for us the technical contributions of Cézanne and Rodin. Here Mr. Huneker is a real interpreter, and here his long experience of men and ways in art counts for much. Charming, in the slighter vein, are such appreciations as the Monticelli and Chardin.”--FRANK JEWETT MATHER, JR., in _New York Nation_ and _Evening Post_. EGOISTS _WITH PORTRAIT AND FACSIMILE REPRODUCTIONS_ “Closely and yet lightly written, full of facts, yet as amusing as a bit of discursive talk, penetrating, candid, and very shrewd.” --ROYAL CORTISSOZ, in the _New York Tribune_. CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, NEW YORK Transcriber’s Notes A few minor punctuation errors were corrected.