Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue, Dostoievsky and Tolstoy, Schoenberg, Wedekind, Moussorgsky, Cezanne, Vermeer, Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Italian Futurists, Various Latter-Day Poets, Painters, Composers, and Dramatists

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• I The Genius of Joseph Conrad 1
• III - The Buffoon of the New Eternities: Jules Laforgue 32
• IV - DostoÏevsky and Tolstoy And the Younger Choir Of Russian Writers 52
• V - Arnold Schoenberg 89
• VI - Frank Wedekind 121
• VII - The Magic Vermeer 141
• Viii Richard Strauss At Stuttgart 153
• IX - Max Liebermann and Some Phases of Modern Ger­ Man Art 173
• X - A Musical Primitive: Mo­ Deste Moussorgsky 190
• XI - New Plays by Hauptmann, Sudermann, And Schnitzler 203
• XII - Kubin, Munch, and Gauguin: Masters of Hallucination 222
• XIII - The Cult of the Nuance Lafcadio Hearn 240
• XIV - The Melancholy of Master­ Pieces 249
• XV - In the Workshop of Zola 275

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• I The Genius of Joseph Conrad 1
• III - The Buffoon of the New Eternities: Jules Laforgue 32
• IV - DostoÏevsky and Tolstoy And the Younger Choir Of Russian Writers 52
• V - Arnold Schoenberg 89
• VI - Frank Wedekind 121
• VII - The Magic Vermeer 141
• Viii Richard Strauss At Stuttgart 153
• IX - Max Liebermann and Some Phases of Modern Ger­ Man Art 173
• X - A Musical Primitive: Mo­ Deste Moussorgsky 190
• XI - New Plays by Hauptmann, Sudermann, And Schnitzler 203
• XII - Kubin, Munch, and Gauguin: Masters of Hallucination 222
• XIII - The Cult of the Nuance Lafcadio Hearn 240
• XIV - The Melancholy of Master­ Pieces 249
• XV - In the Workshop of Zola 275
• XVI - A Study of De Maupassant 288
• XVII - Puvis De Chavannes 301
• XVIII - Three Disagreeable Girls 311