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p\EGENERATION. By Professor Max Nordau. 



-*-^ Translated from the second edition of the German work. 8vo. 

 Cloth, $3.50. 



" A powerful, trenchant, savage attack on all the leading literary and artislic idol: 

 of the tune by a man of great intellectual power, immense range of knowledge, and 

 the possessor of a lucid style rare among German writers, and becoming rarer every- 

 where, owing to the very influences which Nordau at.acks with such unsparing energy, 

 such eager hatred." — London Chronicle. 



" The wit and learning, the literary skill and the scientific method, the righteous 

 indignation, and the ungoverned prejudice displayed in Herr Max Nordau's treatise on 

 * Degeneration,' attracted to it, on its first appearance in Germany, an attention that 

 was partly admiring and partly astonished." — London Standa> d. 



" 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 as the present Government. . . . We read the pages without 

 finding one dull, sometimes in reluctant agreement, sometimes with amused Content, 

 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 nnt literary criticism, puie and simple, though it is not lacking in 

 literary qualities of a high order, but it is something which has long been needed. . . . 

 A great book, which every thoughtlul 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. 



"The book is one of more than ordinary interest. Nothing just like it has ever 

 been written. Agree or disagree with its conclusions, wholly or in part, no one can fail 

 to recognize the force of its argument and the timeliness of its injunctions." — Chicago 

 Evening Post, 



r* EN I US AND DEGENERATION. A Study in 

 ^-* Psychology, By Dr. William Hirsch. Translated from the 

 second edition of the German work. Uniform with " Degen- 

 eration." Large 8vo. Cloth, $3.50. 



"The first intelligent, rational, and scientific siudy of a great subject. ... In the 

 development of his argument Dr. Hirsch frequently finds it necessary to attack the 

 positions assumed by Nordau and Lombroso, his two leading adversaries. . . . Only 

 calm and sober reason endure. Dr. Hirsch possesses that calmness and sobriety. His 

 work will find a permanent place among the authorities of science."—^. Y. Herald. 



"Dr. Hirsch's researches are intended to bting the reader to the conviction that 

 'no psychological meaning can be attached to the word genius.' . . _. While all men of 

 genius have common traits, they are not traits characteristic of genius ; they arc such 

 as are possessed by other men, and more or less by all men. ... Dr. Hirsch believes 

 that most of the great men, both of art and of science, were misunderstood by their 

 contemporaries, and were only appreciated after they were dead." — Miss J. L. Gilder, 

 in the Sunday World. 



" ' Genius and Degeneration ' ought to be read by every man and woman who pro- 

 fesses to keep in touch with modern thought. It is deeply interesting, and so full of 

 information that by intellectual readers it will be seized upon with avidity.' —Buffalo 

 Commercial. 



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