Ivory, Apes and Peacocks
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- IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS
- JAMES HUNEKER
- NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1917
- To
- JOHN QUINN
- CONTENTS
- IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS
- I THE GENIUS OF JOSEPH CONRAD
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- III
- II A VISIT TO WALT WHITMAN
- III THE BUFFOON OF THE NEW ETERNITIES: JULES LAFORGUE
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- III
- IV DOSTOÏEVSKY AND TOLSTOY
- AND THE YOUNGER CHOIR OF RUSSIAN WRITERS I
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- IV THE YOUNGER CHOIR
- V ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
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- II MUSIC OF TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
- VI FRANK WEDEKIND
- VII THE MAGIC VERMEER
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- VIII RICHARD STRAUSS AT STUTTGART
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- IV
- IX MAX LIEBERMANN AND SOME PHASES OF MODERN GERMAN ART
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- X A MUSICAL PRIMITIVE: MODESTE MOUSSORGSKY
- XI NEW PLAYS BY HAUPTMANN, SUDERMANN, AND SCHNITZLER
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- XII KUBIN, MUNCH, AND GAUGUIN: MASTERS OF HALLUCINATION
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- XIII THE CULT OF THE NUANCE LAFCADIO HEARN
- XIV THE MELANCHOLY OF MASTERPIECES
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- II THE ITALIAN FUTURIST PAINTERS
- XV IN THE WORKSHOP OF ZOLA
- ZOLA AS BEST SELLER
- XVI A STUDY OF DE MAUPASSANT
- XVII PUVIS DE CHAVANNES
- XVIII THREE DISAGREEABLE GIRLS
- I HEDDA
- II MILDRED
- III UNDINE
- BOOKS BY JAMES HUNEKER
- Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
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