THE MIRACLE OF SAINT ANTHONY THE WORKS OF MAURICE MAETERLINCK ESSAYS THE TREASURE OF THE HUMBLE WISDOM AND DESTINY THE LIFE OF THE BEE THE BURIED TEMPLE THE DOUBLE GARDEN THE MEASURE OF THE HOURS ON EMERSON, AND OTHER ESSAYS OUR ETERNITY THE UNKNOWN GUEST THE WRACK OF THE STORM MOUNTAIN PATHS PLAYS SISTER BEATRICE, AND ARDIANE AND BARBE BLEUE JOYZELLE, AND MONNA VANNA THE BLUE BIRD, A FAIRY PLAY MARY MAGDALENE PÉLLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE, AND OTHER PLAYS PRINCESS MALEINE THE INTRUDER, AND OTHER PLAYS AGLAVAINE AND SELYSETTE THE MIRACLE OF SAINT ANTHONY THE BETROTHAL; A SEQUEL TO THE BLUE BIRD POEMS HOLIDAY EDITIONS OUR FRIEND THE DOG THE SWARM DEATH THOUGHTS FROM MAETERLINCK THE BLUE BIRD THE LIFE OF THE BEE NEWS OF SPRING AND OTHER NATURE STUDIES THE LIGHT BEYOND [Illustration] _The Miracle of Saint Anthony_ _By Maurice Maeterlinck_ _Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos_ _With Introduction by Arthur Bartlett Maurice_ _New York Dodd, Mead and Company Publishers_ COPYRIGHT, 1918 BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC. _All Rights Reserved_ TRANSLATOR’S NOTE This play was written some ten or twelve years ago, but has never been published or performed in the original. A translation in two acts was printed in Germany a few years before the war; but the present is the only authorized version, in its final, one-act form, that has hitherto appeared in any language. ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS. CHELSEA, _27 February, 1918_. CHARACTERS SAINT ANTHONY GUSTAVE ACHILLE THE DOCTOR THE RECTOR JOSEPH THE COMMISSARY OF POLICE A POLICE-SERGEANT A POLICEMAN MADEMOISELLE HORTENSE VIRGINIE LÉONTINE, an old lady VALENTINE, a young girl OTHER RELATIONS AND GUESTS _The action takes place in the present century, in a small Flemish provincial town._ INTRODUCTION