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BOOKS BY JAMES HUNEKER
Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
UNICORNS. 12mo, net, $1.75
IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS. 12mo, net, $1.50
NEW COSMOPOLIS. 12mo, net, $1.50
THE PATHOS OF DISTANCE. 12mo, net, $2.00
FRANZ LISZT. Illustrated. 12mo, net, $2.00
PROMENADES OF AN IMPRESSIONIST. 12mo, net, $1.50
EGOISTS: A BOOK OF SUPERMEN. 12mo, net, $1.50
ICONOCLASTS: A BOOK OF DRAMATISTS. 12mo, net, $1.50
OVERTONES: A BOOK OF TEMPERAMENTS. 12mo, net, $1.50
MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC. 12mo, net, $1.50
CHOPIN: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC. With Portrait. 12mo, net, $2.00
VISIONARIES. 12mo, net, $1.50
MELOMANIACS. 12mo, net, $1.50
UNICORNS
UNICORNS
BY
JAMES HUNEKER
“I would write on the lintels
of the door-post, ‘Whim.’”
—Emerson
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published September, 1917
Copyright, 1906, by THE NEW YORK HERALD COMPANY
Copyright, 1907, by THE RIDGEWAY COMPANY
Copyright, 1909, 1911, 1916, 1917, by THE SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO.
Copyright, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, by THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY
Copyright, 1915, 1916, by PUCK PUBLISHING CO.
Copyright, 1917, by NORTH AMERICAN
Copyright, 1917, by THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL
THIS BOOK
OF SPLEEN AND GOSSIP IS INSCRIBED
TO MY FRIEND
EDWARD ZIEGLER
“Come! let us lay a crazy lance in rest
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky.”
—John Galsworthy.
“He is a fribble, a sonsy faddle, whose conceits veer with the breeze like a creaking weather-vane. As the sterile moon hath her librations, so must he boast of his oscillations, thinking them eternal verities. A very cockatoo in his perched-up vanity and prodigious clatter....”
[From “The Velvet Cactus.” Anonymous. Printed at the Sign of the Cat and Cameo, Threadneedle Street, London. A.D. 1723. Rare.]
