TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.
—The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using the title page of the original book. The image is placed in the public domain.
The Treasure of the Humble
The Treasure of
the Humble
By Maurice Maeterlinck
Translated by Alfred Sutro
With Introduction by A. B. Walkley
London: George Allen, Ruskin House
156 Charing Cross Road———mcmv
First Edition, March 1897. ReprintedOctober 1897; September 1901; January1903; May 1904; November 1905.
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press
TO
MADAME GEORGETTE LEBLANC
The Treasure of
the Humble
CONTENTS
| Introduction | Page | ix |
| Silence | 1 | |
| The Awakening of the Soul | 23 | |
| The Pre-destined | 43 | |
| Mystic Morality | 59 | |
| On Women | 75 | |
| The Tragical in Daily Life | 95 | |
| The Star | 121 | |
| The Invisible Goodness | 147 | |
| The Deeper Life | 169 | |
| The Inner Beauty | 197 |
INTRODUCTION
WITH M. Maeterlinck as a dramatist theworld is pretty well acquainted. Thislittle volume presents him in the new characterof a philosopher and an æsthetician. And it isin some sort an ‘apology’ for his theatre, theone being to the other as theory to practice.Revers