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First published in the original French in 1906. Reprinted from the English translation by Arthur Ransome which includes the translator's preface and biographical appendix.

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Excerpt from The Book of Masks To take critical questions seriously, even passionately, is one of the marks of a genuinely civilized society. It points to both personal disinterestedness and to an imaginative absorption in fundamentals. The American who watches eagerly some tilt in that great critical battle which has gone on for ages and has now reached our shores, is released from his slavery to the immediate and the parochial, he has cease...

Excerpt from A Night in the Luxembourg: With Pref, and Appendix by Arthur Ransome I have been placed in such a dilemma in translating this book. Certain phrases and de scriptions were, in the French, no more than delightful sporting of the intellect with the ¿esh that is its master. In the English, for us, less accustomed to plain-speaking, and far less accustomed to a playful attitude towards mat ters of which we never speak unless with grea...

Excerpt from The Natural Philosophy of Love About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in ...

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Excerpt from Philosophic Nights in Paris The importance of Remy de Gourmont to the universal world of thought is now beginning to be recognized among thinkers of every continent. During his own life he was a figure apart and aloof even from his confreres, his reputation was a matter more of intensity than of extensive acclaim, although subtly it made its way, as did that of the Symbolist school in general, to many nations. Now, however, he is...

Excerpt from Mr. Antiphilos, Satyr In an age when democratic ideas, levelling processes and the popularization of thought are in vogue, the phenomenon of a Remy de Gourmont emphasizing the aristocratic virtues, drawing attention to the perfect detachment demanded by literature and art, makes one pause as though transported to a different world, to a less nervous existence. Gourmont, the aristocrat of letters, the thinker who could shrug his ...

Excerpt from Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas When, more than ten years ago, I wrote the first article on Remy de Gourmont which, so far as I know, appeared in America - North America, bien entendu, for the author of La Culture des Idtes and Le Chemin de Velours was already well known and admired in such South American literary capitals as Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and La Plata - it was refused by one editor on the groun...

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Excerpt from Les Français au Canada Et en AcadieLe drapeau français avait disparu mais du moins la langue restait, au moins en de certaines régions c'est qu'elle était parlée dans l'amérique du Nord depuis deux siècles, c'est qu'elle avait 'été la pre mière langue civilisatrice qui se fût fait entendre sur le continent sauvage. La langue, à défaut de la nationalité, s'est conservée iusqu'à nos jours dans des conditions de vitalité qui lui assu...

Excerpt from Dans la Tourmente: Avril-Juillet 1915Chacun de ces billets m evoque un jour de la vie de mon frère Remy, dans cette tourmente qui devait l'emporter, lui aussi, le coucher sous la terre, au milieu de tous ceux dont il avaitpleuré la mort. Remy de Gourmont ne parlait jamais de ses douleurs morales et physiques, et c'est peut-être en ces petits billets du matin qu'il aura exprimé avec une séré nité émue et réfléchie, ce qu'il a voulu...

Excerpt from Le Iime Livre des MasquesSi l'on croit nécessaire de connaître la méthode générale qui a guidé l'auteur dans cette seconde série de Masques, on se reportera aux pages plâ cées en tête du premier tome.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techno...

Excerpt from Le Pelerin du Silence: Le Fantome, le Chateau Singulier, le Livre des Litanies, Theatre Muet, Pages RetrouveesJadis, c'était un jeune homme de médiocre savoir, dissipateur et fou, pourtant inquiet, tel qu'un avare, de la richesse intellectuelle dont il portait en lui le sombre trésor. Yezid lui enseigna toutes les sciences dont la première, et celle qui les contient toutes, est LE silence, avec cette formule regarde EN toi-même BT...