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The eighteen nineties; a review of art and ideas at the close of the nineteenth century (1922)

Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948 · New York, A.A. Knopf · leaf 25

An illustration from The eighteen nineties; a review of art and ideas at the close of the nineteenth century, 1922, leaf 25 — rviceand a fuller communal and personal life. Max Nordau, the Jeremiah of the period, linked up hisfamous attack on what were called fin de sieele tendencies with certain traditional beliefs in the evil destiny of theclosure of centuries. The disposition of the times iscuriously confused, he said;… … London: Elkin Mathews &P John LaneBoston: Copeland & Day Pric e ^/- Net CovKR Design of 7>/i Yellow Book; Volume I By Aubrey Beards ley FIN DE SIECLE—1890-1900 19 imminent perdition and extinction. Fin de siecle is at oncea confession and a complaint. The old northern faith con-tained…

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