While all men of genius have common traits, they are not traits characteristic of genius; they are such as are possessed by other men, and more or less by all men....

Dr.Hirsch believes that most of the great men, both of art and science, were misunderstood by their contemporaries, and were only appreciated after they were dead."-- _Miss J.L.Gilder in the Sunday World._ "'Genius and Degeneration' ought to be read by every man and woman who professes to keep in touch with modern thought.

It is deeply interesting and so full of information that by intellectual readers it will be seized upon with avidity."-- _Buffalo Commercial._ * * * * * "A SUBJECT GREAT AND FASCINATING." Degeneration.
By Professor MAX NORDAU.

Translated from the second edition of the German work.8vo.Cloth, $3.50.
"A powerful, trenchant, savage attack on all the leading literary and artistic idols of the time by a man of great intellectual power, immense range of knowledge, and the possessor of a lucid style rare among German writers, and becoming rarer everywhere, owing to the very influences which Nordau attacks with such unsparing energy, such eager hatred."-- _London Chronicle_.
"Let us say at once that the English-reading public should be grateful for an English rendering of Max Nordau's polemic.

It will provide society with a subject that may last as long as the present government....