Educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, the Sorbonne in Paris and the universities of Munich and Heidelberg, Saltus then studied law at the Law School of Columbia College, where he received his law degree in 1880. Rather than practicing law, he turned to writing and in 1884, he published The Philosophy of Disenchantment and followed in 1885 with The Anatomy of Negation. In 1892 he produced his most famous work, Imperial Purple, an historical account of ancient Rome. A superb, descriptive writer, Saltus' work was largely ignored after his death, but has since been resurrected. His many works include Balzac (1884), Eden: An Episode (1888), Love and Lore (1890), When Dreams Come True (1894), Perfume of Eros (1905), Vanity Square (1906), Pomps of Satan (1906), Lords of the Ghostland (1907), Oscar Wilde (1917), Imperial Orgy (1920) and Gardens of Aphrodite (1920). |
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