Morse, Edward E.
Ziegler and Ignace Jan Paderewski.
BOOKS BY JAMES HUNEKER
What Maeterlinck wrote:
Maurice Maeterlinck wrote thus of James Huneker: "Do you know
that 'Iconoclasts' is the only book of high and universal
critical worth that we have had for years--to be precise,
since Georg Brandes. It is at once strong and fine, supple and
firm, indulgent and sure."
The Evening Post of June 10, 1915, wrote of Mr. Huneker's "The
New Cosmopolis":
"The region of Bohemia, Mr. James Huneker found long ago, is
within us. At twenty, he says, he discovered that there is no
such enchanted spot as the Latin Quarter, but that every
generation sets back the mythical land into the golden age of
the Commune, or of 1848, or the days of 'Hernani.' It is the
same with New York's East Side, 'the fabulous East Side,' as
Mr. Huneker calls it in his collection of international urban
studies, 'The New Cosmopolis.' If one judged externals by
grime, by poverty, by sanded back-rooms, with long-haired
visionaries assailing the social order, then the East Side of
the early eighties has gone down before the mad rush of
settlement workers, impertinent reformers, sociological
cranks, self-advertising politicians, billionaire socialists,
and the reporters.
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