“Besides, in nearly every story the reader is arrested by the idea, and only a little troubled now and then by an over-elaborate style.  If most of us are sane, the ideas cherished by these visionaries are insane; but the imagination of the author so illuminates them that we follow wondering and spellbound.  In ‘The Spiral Road’ and in some of the other stories both fantasy and narrative may be compared with Hawthorne in his most unearthly moods.  The younger man has read his Nietzsche and has cast off his heritage of simple morals.  Hawthorne’s Puritanism finds no echo in these modern souls, all sceptical, wavering and unblessed.  But Hawthorne’s splendor of vision and his power of sympathy with a tormented mind do live again in the best of Mr. Huneker’s stories.”—­London Academy (Feb. 3, 1906).

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CHOPIN: 

The Man and His Music

WITH ETCHED PORTRAIT
12mo. $2.00

“No pianist, amateur or professional, can rise from the perusal of his pages without a deeper appreciation of the new forms of beauty which Chopin has added, like so many species of orchids, to the musical flora of the nineteenth century.”—­The Nation.

“I think it not too much to predict that Mr. Huneker’s estimate of Chopin and his works is destined to be the permanent one.  He gives the reader the cream of the cream of all noteworthy previous commentators, besides much that is wholly his own.  He speaks at once with modesty and authority, always with personal charm.”—­Boston Transcript.