Note: Images of the original pages are available through HathiTrust Digital Library. See http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t9d50kh4d;view=1up;seq=9 MODERNITIES by HORACE B. SAMUEL Author of "The Land and Yourself," "The Insurance Act and Yourself," etc. New York E. P. Dutton and Co. 681, Fifth Avenue 1914 DEDICATED TO MRS. GEORGE JOSEPH PREFACE The ten studies which constitute this volume are devoted to individuals who are held out as being reasonably characteristic of that modern movement of the last and present century which started with the French Revolution. At any rate, they were all modern once. For the spirit of modernity enjoys, like the priest-god of the ancient grove, only a temporary reign, and is speedily killed by its inevitable successor. It is somewhat difficult to find any common denominator for the subjects of these studies. The essays must be left largely to speak for themselves. If, however, an attempt were to be made to pronounce of what the spirit of modernity really consists, one might suggest that it is a spirit of energy, of fearlessness in analysis, whose sole _raison d'être_ and whose sole ideal is actual life itself. The studies on Miss Marie Corelli and Herr Wedekind are here published for the first time. Those on Disraeli, Heine, Stendhal, Schnitzler, Strindberg, the Futurists, and Verhaeren have appeared as articles in the _Fortnightly Review_; while the essay on Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals" was first published in the _English Review_. I have consequently pleasure in expressing my thanks and acknowledgments to Mr. W. L. Courtney and Mr. Austin Harrison for their courtesy in allowing these articles to be reproduced in their present form. I have also to thank the editor of the _New Statesman_ for permission to republish my translation from Marinetti's, "The Pope's Monoplane." I have made additions to the essays on Schnitzler and the Futurists with a view to incorporating some reference to the more recent works of Dr. Schnitzler and M. Marinetti. HORACE B. SAMUEL. Temple, _October_ 1913. CONTENTS STENDHAL: THE COMPLEAT INTELLECTUAL HEINRICH HEINE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DISRAELI NIETZSCHE'S "GENEALOGY OF MORALS" AUGUST STRINDBERG THE WELTANSCHAUUNG OF MISS MARIE CORELLI FRANK WEDEKIND ARTHUR SCHNITZLER ÉMILE VERHAEREN THE FUTURE OF FUTURISM INDEX MODERNITIES STENDHAL THE COMPLEAT INTELLECTUAL "I only write for a hundred readers, and of those unhappy, amiable, charming creatures without either hypocrisy or morality whom I should like to please, I only know one or two."