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BOOKS BY JAMES HUNEKER
Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

UNICORNS. 12mo, net, $1.75
IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS. 12mo, net, $1.50
NEW COSMOPOLIS. 12mo, net, $1.50
THE PATHOS OF DISTANCE. 12mo, net, $2.00
FRANZ LISZT. Illustrated. 12mo, net, $2.00
PROMENADES OF AN IMPRESSIONIST. 12mo, net, $1.50
EGOISTS: A BOOK OF SUPERMEN. 12mo, net, $1.50
ICONOCLASTS: A BOOK OF DRAMATISTS. 12mo, net, $1.50
OVERTONES: A BOOK OF TEMPERAMENTS. 12mo, net, $1.50
MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC. 12mo, net, $1.50
CHOPIN: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC. With Portrait. 12mo, net, $2.00
VISIONARIES. 12mo, net, $1.50
MELOMANIACS. 12mo, net, $1.50

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UNICORNS


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UNICORNS

BY

JAMES HUNEKER

“I would write on the lintels
of the door-post, ‘Whim.’”
Emerson

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1917


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COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


Published September, 1917


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Copyright, 1917, by THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL