NOTE
Ofthe Essays in this book, “Art for Life’s Sake” appeared inThe English Review; “The Poetry of Yone Noguchi,”1“Remy de Gourmont,” and “Aloysius Bertrand” inThe Fortnightly Review; “Kinetic and Potential Speech,” inThe 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.