Of the Essays in this book, “Art for Life’s Sake” appeared in _The English Review_; “The Poetry of Yone Noguchi,”[1] “Remy de Gourmont,” and “Aloysius Bertrand” in _The Fortnightly Review_; “Kinetic and Potential Speech,” in _The Oxford and Cambridge Review_. The papers on Daudet and Coppée were prefixed to collections of stories by these writers: I thank the publishers, Messrs. T. C. and E. C. Jack, for permission to reproduce them here. It is not yet fifty years since one or two men of genius, followed presently by a score of men of talent, noisier, shriller in voice than themselves, preached a theory of art new in this country, shocking to our prejudices at that time, and imported from s…
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