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                            The Treasure of
                              the Humble

                       _By_ Maurice Maeterlinck

                     _Translated by_ Alfred Sutro

                 With _Introduction by_ A. B. Walkley


                 London: George Allen, _Ruskin House_

                   156 Charing Cross Road      mcmv




 _First Edition, March 1897. Reprinted October 1897; September 1901;
 January 1903; May 1904; November 1905._


                  Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO.
                        At the Ballantyne Press




                                =_TO_=

                      _MADAME GEORGETTE LEBLANC_




                      The Treasure of the Humble

[Illustration: LOGO]




                            CONTENTS


  INTRODUCTION                                _Page_    ix

  SILENCE                                                1

  THE AWAKENING OF THE SOUL                             23

  THE PRE-DESTINED                                      43

  MYSTIC MORALITY                                       59

  ON WOMEN                                              75

  THE TRAGICAL IN DAILY LIFE                            95

  THE STAR                                             121

  THE INVISIBLE GOODNESS                               147

  THE DEEPER LIFE                                      169

  THE INNER BEAUTY                                     197




INTRODUCTION


WITH M. Maeterlinck as a dramatist the world is pretty well acquainted.
This little volume presents him in the new character of a philosopher
and an æsthetician.