translation for the first time.

I have also had M. Maeterlinck's leave to include in this volume his
first published work, _The Massacre of the Innocents_. This powerful
sketch in the Flemish manner saw the light originally in the
_Pléïade_, in 1886, and may at the present time, to use the author's
own words in a note to myself, be regarded as "a sort of vague
symbolic prophecy." An English version by Mrs. Edith Wingate Rinder
was printed in the _Dome_ in 1899; another has since been issued by an
English and by an American firm of publishers; but the only authorized
translation to appear in book form is that now added as an epilogue to
_The Wrack of the Storm_.

ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS.

CHELSEA, 1916.




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AUTHOR'S PREFACE 5

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 7

I AFTER THE VICTORY 11