[74] _Gesammelte Werke_: Vol. III, p. 300, translated in _Creative Spirits of the Nineteenth Century_ (by Georg Brandes) by Rasmus B. Anderson, New York, 1924. By permission of Thomas Y. Crowell Co. [75] Introduction by Mary A. Frost to edition of _L’Arrabiata_, published by Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1896. [76] An excellent study of Heyse is by Professor von Klenze in _German Classics_ edited by Kuno Francke, German Publication Society. [77] _Creative Spirits of the Nineteenth Century_ by Georg Brandes, New York, 1924, Thomas Y. Crowell Co. [78] Inscription with the Nobel Prize Award in Literature, 1912. [79] D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1925. [80] _The Sunken Bell_: a Fairy Play in Five Acts by Gerhart Hauptmann, freely rendered into English verse by Charles Henry Meltzer, New York, 1913, Foreword. By permission of Doubleday, Page & Co. [81] _The Sunken Bell_ by Gerhart Hauptmann, freely rendered into English verse by Charles Henry Meltzer, New York, 1913, Act III. By permission of Doubleday, Page & Co. [82] _Parsival_, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann, translated by Oakley Williams, New York, 1915. By permission of The Macmillan Co. [83] By permission of the University of Pennsylvania Press. [84] P. 82. By permission of D. Appleton & Co. CHAPTER IX MAETERLINCK--BELGIAN SYMBOLIST AND POET-PLAYWRIGHT (1911) The prize of 1911 has been awarded: Maeterlinck, Maurice, born 1862: “because of his many-sided literary activity and especially because of his dramatic creations which are marked by wealth of fancy and poetic idealism that sometimes, in the fairy play’s veiled form, reveals deep inspiration and, also, in a mysterious way, appeals to the reader’s feeling and imagination.”[85] The first decade of the Nobel prizes was over and a new group of candidates was coming into the literary limelight in 1911. There was hopeful speculation that the award might go to either Russia or America, the two larger countries that have not yet been included. There was, however, a new type of poetry and drama, and a writer of unique personality, that were attracting widespread interest--namely, the mystical and symbolic plays by Maurice Maeterlinck. The announcement that he was the winner for 1911 caused much pride to the little kingdom of Belgium. Maeterlinck wrote most of his plays in French so they gained readers more quickly than those of his Belgian predecessors and contemporaries. _On the Scent_, the drama by Charles Van Lerberghe, has been compared to Maeterlinck’s earlier work by Barrett H. Clark in _A Study of the Modern Drama_.[86] Other Belgian playwrights commended by Mr. Clark are Henri Maubel and Edmond Picard. [Illustration: _By courtesy of Dodd, Mead & Co._ MAURICE MAETERLINCK]