[3] Mme Georgette Leblanc, _Morceaux choisis_, Introduction.
[4] Anselma Heine, _Maeterlinck_, pp. 7-8.
[6] "The literary history of modern Belgium, by the freaks of chance, was born in one single house. In Ghent, the favourite city of the Emperor Charles V., in the old Flemish city heavy with fortifications, rises remote, far from noisy streets, Sainte-Barbe, the grey-walled Jesuit monastery. Its thick, defensive walls, its silent corridors and refectories, remind one somewhat of Oxford's beautiful colleges; here, however, there is no ivy softening the walls, there are no flowers to lay their variegated carpet over the green courts."--Stefan Zweig, _Emile Verhaeren_ (_Mercure de France_, 1910), pp. 39-40.
[7] Mme Georgette Leblanc, _Morceaux choisis_, Introduction.
[8] Anselma Heine, _Maeterlinck_, p. 9. But cf. Léon Bazalgette, _Emile Verhaeren_, p. 14.
[9] Gérard Harry, _Maeterlinck_, p. 9, note.
[10] Gérard Harry, _Maeterlinck_, p. 26; Heine, _Maeterlinck_, p. 9.
[11] Cf., for instance, Barbey's "Réfléchir sur son bonheur n'est-ce pas le doubler?" with the opening chapters of _Sagesse et Destinée_.
[12] The review of the same name which was published at Brussels, by Lacomblez, beginning three years later, and in which Maeterlinck's criticism of Iwan Gilkin's _Damnation de l'Artiste_ appeared, was a third-rate periodical.
[13] _The Massacre of the Innocents and other Tales by Belgian Writers._
[14] Verhaeren's first _vers libres_ appeared in book form in January, 1891 (printed in December, 1890) in _Les Flambeaux noirs_. But in May, 1890, he had published, in _La Wallonie_, a poem in _vers libres_; and this is dated 1889.
[15] _Poèmes anciens et romanesques_, his first book of acknowledged symbolism, did not appear till 1890, but the poems which compose it were written between 1887 and 1888.
[16] It was in 1886, too, that Gustave Kahn with the collaboration of Jean Moréas and Paul Adam, founded the review _Le Symboliste_.
[17] A translation of Whitman's _Enfants d'Adam_, by Jules Laforgue, appeared in _La Vogue_ in 1886. Stuart Merrill personally handed this translation to Whitman, who was delighted. (See _Le Masque_, Série ii, Nos. 9 and 10, 1912). Vielé-Griffin's first translation of Whitman appeared in November, 1888, in. _La Revue indépendante_; another translation of his appeared afterwards in _La Cravache_. A translation of Whitman had appeared in the _Revue des deux Mondes_ in the reign of Napoleon III.