Evening star., 1909-08-28

men who have written books
so tremendously clever, and
some of them SO daring, as to make civil
zation catch its breath. Readers who like
10 know the intimate human side of the
mighty men of literature-how they i've,
love and die-wiIl have but one fault to
find with "Egoists," Mr.. Huneker should
have rounded out a dozen supermen by
adding a study of Renan.
The frontispiece introduces Henry
'Beyle-Stendhal-the Paul Pry Of psy-
chologists-who wished his readers to be
those amiable, unhappy souls who are
neither moral nor hypocritical, and who
considered parents as our first enemies.
In The Baudelaire Legend, the author
defends the poets reputation from the
magnificent idocy" of du Camp and
other biographers, who describe him as
dandy and maniac, who dyed his hair
green and spouted blasphemies. One
feels that MIR. Huneker is right about the
green salve applied to a shaved head TO
prevent badness. and that when Baude-
laire exclaimed aloud at cafes and other
public places: Have you ever eaten
baby" il was merely a prankish desire
10 make people stare.
Flaubert-'.the real Flaubert''- was, in
his youth 'as handsome and as free from
sickness as a god. He was very tall
and his eyes were sea green. Dual in
temperament he swung from an almost
harbaric romanticism to a cruel analysis
OF life that made him the pontiff of the
realistic school"
Anatole France has many chroniclers,
but nowhere does this spiritual step
son of Renan'' stand out more foYcefuliy
splendid than in the place allowed to
him in Mr.. Huneker's book. Pagan in
his irony. his pity wholly Christian,
Anatole France has in him something of
Petronius and not a little of ST. Francis :
There are equally lightning Hash
Ssimpses of Huysmans, whose ''firma-
nent is dotted with black stars: of
Maurice Barres, whose great passion is
love of France-not woman: of Vietzsche.
the most dynamieally emotional writer
If his times of Max Stirner who pro-
Claims that ''one wall over one neighbor' $
soul is the wall of a busyboGy'; Of
ibsen. who changed forever the dramatic
map of Europe" and of other souI-turbu-
lent men who come together in chapter
mysticS.
To the interest OF tile text is added an
unpublished letter of Flaubert and an
original proof-page of Madame Bovary."
THE SCORE. BY Lucas Malet (MrS
Mary ST. Leger Harrison). New
= York: L. r. Dutton < CO.
For and against-how stands the
scorer
The author quotes this query leaving
ilie reader 10 reckon the balance. after
finishing the two stories, each with a
title OF Its own which she presents under
the book name. The Score" The first
story pulses with passionate life. The
other is a death-bed confession Both
tense with emotions. good and bad
ulat battle for supremacy. Each de-
mands answer: How stands the
store?"
The scenic setting for "Out in the Open
is hotel in the English country by the
sea The three characters are Poppy st
John an actress, who has reached the
high tide of a successful career; Antony
Hammond. her playwright and very gooC
friend. and Lucius Denier, younger broth
er of a lord. who has just won politica
preferment and motored headlopS from
London to ask Poppy to be his wife. The
woman goes out alone in the night Il
consider proposition so unexpected ant
so complicated. One can fairly see her
with the train of her gray and ros'
hrocade over her arm; froth of lace ant
silk pettieoat fI'ills and paste-buckiet
pink shoes-as she steps out OF tn
yeranda. down on the lawn and out II