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1914 Special article 66 Huneker Adventures Anatole France April 20 Art and Alcohol artistic August August 29 Baudelaire Baudelaire's Letters Bedouins BENJAMIN DE CASSERES BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTIONS Bookman Brahmsody brain Caruso Century Charles Scribner's Sons Chopin Circus critic Crushed Violets Debussy December Dostoievsky Dream-Barn Dvorak egotists Eili Eternal Etude Everybody's February Fiction Fortnight in 1898 Fortnight in November Fortnight in October Forum Genius George Luks Girl H. L. Mencken Harper's Bazaar Harper's Weekly humor JAMES GIBBONS HUNEKER James Huneker James Huneker's January 12 Joseph Conrad JOSEPH LAWREN June 22 Laforgue Last Fortnight Lomo Asovtoni M'LLE NEW YORK March Mary Garden Masque of Music Master Masterpiece Mirbeau Nordau North American Oscar Hammerstein Painted Music Peace Palace Philadelphia Piano Plays Chopin portrait Prose Roosevelt and Brandes Scribner's Magazine September Seven Arts Shaw Socialism and Mediocrity Sollst Steeplejack Superwoman things Town Pump Wagner Walt Whitman words York Voice
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Page 22 - And now when the Great Noon had come Steeplejack touched the tip of the spire, where instead of a cross he found a vane which swung as the wind listeth. Thereat he marveled and rejoiced. ' Behold !' he cried, ' thou glowing symbol of the New Man. A weathercock and a mighty twirling.
Page 22 - Behold !' he cried, ' thou glowing symbol of the New Man. A weathercock and a mighty twirling. This, then, shall be the sign set in the sky for Immoralists : A cool brain and a wicked heart. Nothing is true. All is permitted, for all is necessary.'
Page 42 - against the powers of heaven, / and set black streamers in the firmament, / to signify the slaughter of the Gods,
Page 28 - I can't play cards or billiards. I can't read day and night. I take no interest in the chessboard of politics, and I am not too pious. What shall I do ? Music, always music ! There are certain compositions of my beloved Chopin to master which eternity itself would not be too long.
Page 29 - Courage ! Time is fugacious. How many years have I not played that magic music ? Music the flying vision — music that merges with the tender air; its image melts in shy
Page 19 - a character actor, a low comedian, even songand-dance man, a poet, a profound sympathizer with human misery, and a human orchestra. The vitality of him
Page 14 - Do I contradict myself ? Very well, then, I contradict myself!
Page 29 - shadows ; the cloud, the cloud, the singing, shining cloud — over the skies and far away ; the beckoning cloud.
Page 19 - Falstaff. He is a tornado. He is sentimental. He can sigh like a lover and curse like a trooper
Page 24 - cosmopolitanism peeled off like dry paint from a cracked wall when President Wilson proclaimed our nation at war.