Overtones a book of Temperaments Richard Strauss Parsifal Verdi Balzac Fla
Overtones a book of Temperaments Richard Strauss Parsifal Verdi Balzac Fla
Huneker James
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When he wished to roam in the East or in old Carthaginian times, he took up the history of the daughter of Farmer Roualt, and we got Emma Bovary. When Egypt and the Thebaid tempted him with its ascetic gloom and dream splendors, he resolutely tied himself to his monkish desk at Croisset and worked for six years at L' Education Sentimen- tale. Picture to yourself this green-eyed Norman giant, stalking up and down his terrace spouting aloud Chateaubriand, whose sonorous, cadenced lines were impla...cably engraved on his memory. Flaubert's favorite passage was this from Atala : " File repand dans le bois ce grand secret de melancholic qu'elle aime a raconter aux vicux chenes et aux rivages antiques des mers. " One recalls Matthew Arnold's love for Maurice de Guerin's Centaur, and his eternal quotation of that marmoreal phrase, " But upon the shores of OVERTONES what ocean have they rolled the stone that hides them, O Macareus?" Little wonder that the passengers on the steamboat hound for Rouen enjoyed the spectacle of the inspired martyr to style as he paced his garden in an old dressing- gown, chanting the swelling phrases of Chateau- briand !
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