'^A SUBJECT GREAT AND FASCINATING." 

 Degeneration. 



By Professor Max Nordau. Translated from 

 the second edition of the German work. Svo. 

 Cloth, $3.50. 



** A powerful, trenchant, savage attack on all the leading literary 

 and artistic idols of the time by a man of great intellectual power, im- 

 mense range of knowledge, and the possessor of a lucid style rare among 

 German writers, and becoming rarer everywhere, owing to the very 

 influences which Nordau attacks with such unsparing energy, such eager 

 hatred." — London Chronicle. 



" Let us say at once that the English-reading public should be 

 grateful for an English rendering of Max Nordau's polemic. It will 

 provide society with a subject that may last as long ab the present Gov- 

 ernment. . . . We read the pages without finding one dull, sometimes 

 in reluctant agreement, sometimes with amused contempt, sometimes with 

 angry indignation." — London Saturday Review. 



** Herr Nordau's book fills a void, not merely in the systems of 

 Lombroso, as he says, but in all existing systems of English and American 

 criticism with which we are acquainted. It is not literary criticism 

 pure and simple, though it is not lacking in literary qualities of a high 

 order, but it is something which has long been needed, for of literary 

 criticism, so called, good, bad, and indifferent, there is always an 

 abundance ; but it is scientific criticism — the penetration to and the 

 interpretation of the spirit within the letter, the apprehension of motives 

 as well as means, and the comprehension of temporal effects as well as 

 final results, its explanation, classification, and largely condemnation, 

 for it is not a healthy condition which he has studied, but its absence, 

 its loss ; it is degeneration. . . . lie has written a great book, which 

 every thoughtful lover of art and literature and every serious student 

 of sociology and morality should read carefully and ponder slowly and 

 wisely." — Richard Henry Stoddard in the Mail and Express. 



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