Produced by David Edwards, Ritu Aggarwal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS [Illustration: DOSTOIEVSKY, BY VALLOTON] IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS JOSEPH CONRAD, WALT WHITMAN, JULES LAFORGUE, DOSTOIEVSKY AND TOLSTOY, SCHOENBERG, WEDEKIND, MOUSSORGSKY, CEZANNE, VERMEER, MATISSE, VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN, ITALIAN FUTURISTS, VARIOUS LATTER-DAY POETS, PAINTERS, COMPOSERS AND DRAMATISTS BY JAMES HUNEKER NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1917 COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1915 To JOHN QUINN "Every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks." --_II Chronicles_ 9. 21. CONTENTS PAGE I. THE GENIUS OF JOSEPH CONRAD 1 II. A VISIT TO WALT WHITMAN 22 III. THE BUFFOON OF THE NEW ETERNITIES: JULES LAFORGUE 32 IV. DOSTOIEVSKY AND TOLSTOY, AND THE YOUNGER CHOIR OF RUSSIAN WRITERS 52 V. I. ARNOLD SCHOENBERG 89 II. MUSIC OF TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW 104 VI. FRANK WEDEKIND 121 VII. THE MAGIC VERMEER 141 VIII. RICHARD STRAUSS AT STUTTGART 153 IX. MAX LIEBERMANN AND SOME PHASES OF MODERN GERMAN ART 173 X. A MUSICAL PRIMITIVE: MODESTE MOUSSORGSKY 190 XI. NEW PLAYS BY HAUPTMANN, SUDERMANN, AND SCHNITZLER 203 XII. KUBIN, MUNCH, AND GAUGUIN: MASTERS OF HALLUCINATION 222 XIII. THE CULT OF THE NUANCE: LAFCADIO HEARN 240 XIV. I. THE MELANCHOLY OF MASTERPIECES 249 II. THE ITALIAN FUTURIST PAINTERS 262 XV. IN THE WORKSHOP OF ZOLA 275 XVI. A STUDY OF DE MAUPASSANT 288 XVII. PUVIS DE CHAVANNES 301 XVIII. THREE DISAGREEABLE GIRLS 311 IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS I