_Serres Chaudes,_ 1889; _La Princesse Maleine,_ 1890; _Les Aveugles (L'Intruse, Les Aveugles),_ 1890; _L'Ornement des Noces Spirituelles, de Ruysbroeck l'Admirable,_ 1891; _Les Sept Princesses,_ 1891; _Pelléas et Mélisande,_ 1892; _Alladine et Palomides, Intérieur, La Mort de Tintagiles,_ 1894; _Annabella, de John Ford,_ 1895; _Les Disciples à Sais et les Fragments de Novalis,_ 1895; _Le Trésor des Humbles,_ 1896; _Douze Chansons,_ 1896; _Aglavaine et Sélysette,_ 1896; _La Sagesse et la Destinée,_ 1898; _Théâtre,_ 1901 (3 vols.); _La Vie des Abeilles,_ 1901; _Monna Vanna,_ 1902; _Le Temple Enseveli,_ 1902; _Joyzelle,_ 1903; _Le Double Jardin,_ 1904; _L'Intelligence des Fleurs,_ 1907. M. Maeterlinck has had the good or bad fortune to be more promptly, and more violently, praised at the beginning of his career than at all events any other writer of whom I have spoken in this volume. His fame in France was made by a flaming article of M. Octave Mirbeau in the _Figaro_ of August 24, 1890. M. Mirbeau greeted him as the "Belgian Shakepeare," and expressed his opinion of _La Princesse Maleine_ by saying "M. Maeterlinck has given us the greatest work of genius that has been produced in our time, and the most extraordinary and the most naïve too, comparable (dare I say?) superior in beauty to what is most beautiful in Shakespeare ... more tragic than _Macbeth,_ more extraordinary in thought than _Hamlet."_ Mr. William Archer introduced M. Maeterlinck to England in an article called "A Pessimist Playwright" in the _Fortnightly Review,_ September, 1891. Less enthusiastic than M. Mirbeau, he defined the author of _La Princesse Maleine_ as "a Webster who had read Alfred de Musset." A freely adapted version of _L'Intruse_ was given by Mr. Tree at the Haymarket Theatre, January 27, 1892, and since that time many of M. Maeterlinck's plays have been acted, without cuts, or with but few cuts, at various London theatres. Several of his books have also been translated into English: _The Princesse Maleine_ (by Gerard Harry) and _The Intruder_ (by William Wilson), 1892; _Pelléas and Mélisande_ and _The Sightless_ (by Laurence Alma-Tadema), 1892; _Ruysbroeck and the Mystics_ (by J. T. Stoddart), 1894; _The Treasure of the Humble_ (by A. Sutro), 1897; _Aglavaine and Sélysette_ (by A. Sutro), 1897; _Wisdom and Destiny_ (by A. Sutro), 1898; _Alladine and Palomides_ (by A. Sutro), _Interior_ (by William Archer), and _The Death of Tintagiles_ (by A. Sutro), 1899.