SOURCE: "James Huneker: Individualist," in The Forum, New York, Vol. XLI, No. 6, June, 1909, pp. 600-05.

In the following essay, Marsh considers the distinctive, idiosyncratic style of Huneker's literary criticism.

With a frankness that is altogether praiseworthy, James Huneker has affixed to his books labels which have the rare virtue of telling something about what they contain. The import of such titles as Melomaniscs; Visionaries; Iconoclasts; and now Egoists, is not cryptic. However much they may include, they will commonly be taken as barring out those manifestations of human life and thought which are reputed safe and sane. To the average man they will suggest something of morbidity; and if the average man will look further than the titles, he shall not be cheated of his expectation. It would not be easy to sum up under a single rubric all the men and subjects with which Mr. Huneker's books...