Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1915 — Maeterlinck's Failures. [ARTICLE]

Maeterlinck's Failures.

M. Maurice Maeterlinck began bls literary career with three apparent failures. The first was the founding of a literary review, which quickly went under; the second the publication of a volume of poems, which failed to attract attention, and the third the issue of a play, “La Princess Maleine,” of which he printed just 25 copies. with his own hands and gave them away. A year later, says the London Chronicle, chance brought a copy of the play into the hands of M. Octave Mirbeau, who wrote a glowing eulogy of it in the Figaro, and Maeterlinck awoke one morning to find himself famous.