SOURCE: "The Playboy of Criticism," in The North American Review, Vol. CCXIII, No. 785, April, 1921, pp. 556-60.

In the following essay, Gilman stresses Huneker's role in introducing new artistic movements to the American public.

"And now when the Great Moon had come, Steeplejack touched the tip of the spire, where instead of a cross he found a vane which swung as the wind listeth; thereat he marvelled and rejoiced. 'Behold!' he cried, 'thou glowing symbol of the New Man. A weathercock and a mighty twirling. This then shall be the sign set in the sky for Immoralists: A cool brain and a wicked heart. Nothing is true. All is permitted, for all is necessary.'—Thus Spake Steeplejack."

Such is the motto chosen by James Huneker to introduce his Autobiography, the last of that remarkable series of books which are now all that remains of him—save those...