Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ OVERTONES BOOKS BY JAMES HUNEKER OVERTONES: A Book of Temperaments. _With Frontispiece._ $1.25, _net_. MELOMANIACS. 12mo. $1.50. CHOPIN: The Man and His Music. _With Portrait._ $2.00. MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC. 12mo. $1.50. [Illustration: Richard Strauss. (signature)] OVERTONES A BOOK OF TEMPERAMENTS RICHARD STRAUSS, PARSIFAL, VERDI, BALZAC, FLAUBERT, NIETZSCHE, AND TURGÉNIEFF BY JAMES HUNEKER Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. WALT WHITMAN _WITH PORTRAIT_ NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1904 COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS PUBLISHED MARCH, 1904. TO RICHARD STRAUSS A MUSIC-MAKER OF INDIVIDUAL STYLE A SUPREME MASTER OF THE ORCHESTRA AN ANARCH OF ART THIS SHEAF OF STUDIES IS ADMIRINGLY INSCRIBED CONTENTS PAGE I. RICHARD STRAUSS 1 II. PARSIFAL—A MYSTIC MELODRAMA 64 The Book 73 The Music 91 III. NIETZSCHE THE RHAPSODIST 109 IV. LITERARY MEN WHO LOVED MUSIC 142 The Musical Taste of Turgénieff 142 Balzac as Music Critic 161 Alphonse Daudet 179 George Moore 188 Evelyn Innes 188 Sister Teresa 199 V. ANARCHS OF ART 214 VI. THE BEETHOVEN OF FRENCH PROSE 228 Flaubert and his Art 228 The Two Salammbôs 244 VII. VERDI AND BOÏTO 256 Boïto’s Mefistofele 272 VIII. THE ETERNAL FEMININE 277 IX. AFTER WAGNER—WHAT? 307 The Caprice of the Musical Cat 307 Wagner and the French 321 Isolde and Tristan 327 I RICHARD STRAUSS We cannot understand what we do not love. —ELISÉE RECLUS. I