BY JAMES HUNEKER
MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC (1899)
CHOPIN: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC (1900)
MELOMANIACS (1902)
OVERTONES (1904)
ICONOCLASTS: A BOOK OF DRAMATISTS (1905)
VISIONARIES (1905)
EGOISTS: A BOOK OF SUPERMEN (1909)
PROMENADES OF AN IMPRESSIONIST (1910)
FRANZ LISZT. ILLUSTRATED (1911)
THE PATHOS OF DISTANCE (1912)
NEW COSMOPOLIS (1915)
IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS (1915)
UNICORNS (1917)
BEDOUINS (1920)
In Preparation
STEEPLEJACK. TWO VOLUMES
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
BEDOUINS
From a photograph by De Meyer
MARY GARDEN—HERSELF
BEDOUINS
MARY GARDEN, DEBUSSY,
CHOPIN OR THE CIRCUS, BOTTICELLI, POE, BRAHMSODY,
ANATOLE FRANCE, MIRBEAU, CARUSO ON WHEELS,
CALICO CATS, THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT;
IDOLS AND AMBERGRIS; WITH THE SUPREME SIN,
GRINDSTONES, A MASQUE OF MUSIC, AND
THE VISION MALEFIC
BY
JAMES HUNEKER
WITH VARIOUS PORTRAITS OF MARY GARDEN IN
OPERATIC COSTUME
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1920
Copyright, 1920, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published February, 1920
Copyright, 1919, BY THE NEW YORK TIMES CO.
Copyright, 1913, BY THE ESS ESS PUBLISHING CO.
Copyright, 1917, BY THE SUN PRINTING & PUBLISHING ASSN.
THIS BOOK OF BEDOUINSIS DEDICATED
“À la très-belle, à la très-bonne, à la très-chère.”
“J’aime mieux le désert, je retourne chez les Bédouins qui sontlibres....”
Gustave Flaubert.
“The Bedouins camp within Pharaoh’s palace walls, and the old war-shipis given over to the rats.”
Robert Louis Stevenson.