of Ladslove, etc.) showing delicate charm combined with high technical skill.  Some books mainly or entirely written in prose may fairly be included in the same group.  Such are In the Key of Blue, by John Addington Symonds, and the Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton (published anonymously by a well-known author, A.C.  Benson), in which on somewhat Platonic lines the idea is worked out that the individual sufferer must pass “from the love of one fair form to the love of abstract beauty” and “from the contemplation of his own suffering to the consideration of the root of all human suffering.”

As regards the modern poetic literature of feminine homosexuality there is probably nothing to put beside the various volumes—­pathetic in their brave simplicity and sincerity—­of “Renee Vivien” (see ante, p. 200).  Most other feminine singers of homosexuality have cautiously thrown a veil of heterosexuality over their songs.

Novels of a more or less definitely homosexual tone are now very numerous in English, French, German, and other languages.  In English the homosexuality is for the most part veiled and the narrative deals largely with school-life and boys in order that the emotional and romantic character of the relations described may appear more natural.  Thus Tim, an anonymously published book by H.O.  Sturgis (1891), described the devotion of a boy to an older boy at Eton and his death at an early age. Jaspar Tristram, by A.W.  Clarke (1899), again, is a well-written story of a schoolboy friendship of homosexual tone; a boy is represented as feeling attraction to boys who are like girls, and a girl became attractive to the hero because she is like a boy and recalls her brother whom he had formerly loved. The Garden God:  A Tale of Two Boys, by Forrest Reid (1905), is another rather similar book, in its way a charming and delicately written idyll. Imre:  A Memorandum, (1906), by “Xavier Mayne” (the pseudonym of an American author, who has also written The Intersexes), privately issued at Naples, is a book of a different class; representing the frankly homosexual passion of two mutually attracted men, an Englishman who is supposed to write the story and a Hungarian officer; it embodies a notable narrative of homosexual development which is probably more or less real.

In French there are a number of novels dealing with homosexuality, sometimes sympathetically, sometimes with artistic indifference, sometimes satirically.  Andre Gide (in L’Immoraliste and other books), Rachilde (Madame Vallette), Willy (in the well-known Claudine series) may be mentioned, among other writers of more or less distinction, who have once or oftener dealt with homosexuality.  Special reference should be made to the Belgian author George Eekhoud, whose Escal-Vigor (prosecuted at Bruges on its publication) is a book of special