Excerpt from Maurice Maeterlinck: A Biographical StudyThe little gleam that ¿ickers on the horizon, one cannot tell yet if it is a rush light or a planet. In these or some such terms was Maeterlinck referred to, at the end of 1889, by one of the first critics of the Princesse M alcine. The writer had not been convinced by Octave Mirbeau's dithyramb, who, like another wise man from the East, had greeted the little Princess with the strange white lashes as the shepherds' star of a poetical Messiah.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.