Epigraph
“Tournez, tournez, bons chevaux de bois,
Tournez cent tours, tournez mille tours,
Tournez souvent et tournez toujours,
Tournez, tournez au sons de hautbois.”
Paul Verlaine
Note
Some of these essays have appeared in “The Smart Set,” “Reedy’s Mirror,” “Vanity Fair,” “The Chronicle,” “The Theatre,” “The Bellman,” “The Musical Quarterly,” “Rogue,” “The New York Press,” and “The New York Globe.” In their present form, however, they have undergone considerable redressing.
In Defence of Bad Taste
“It is a painful thing, at best, to live up to one’s bricabric, if one has any; but to live up to the bricabric of many lands and of many centuries is a strain which no wise man would dream of inflicting upon his constitution.”
Agnes Repplier.