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Title: The Merry-Go-Round

Author: Carl Van Vechten

Release Date: August 15, 2008 [EBook #26320]

Language: English

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The
Merry-Go-Round

[Illustration]

_BOOKS BY_
_CARL VAN VECHTEN_

MUSIC AFTER THE GREAT WAR 1915

MUSIC AND BAD MANNERS 1916

INTERPRETERS AND INTERPRETATIONS 1917

THE MERRY-GO-ROUND 1918

THE MUSIC OF SPAIN 1918

The
Merry-Go-Round

_Carl Van Vechten_

_"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

[Illustration]

New York Alfred A. Knopf

MCMXVIII

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contents

PAGE

IN DEFENCE OF BAD TASTE 11

MUSIC AND SUPERMUSIC 23

EDGAR SALTUS 37

THE NEW ART OF THE SINGER 93

_Au Bal Musette_ 125

MUSIC AND COOKING 149

AN INTERRUPTED CONVERSATION 179

THE AUTHORITATIVE WORK ON AMERICAN MUSIC 197

OLD DAYS AND NEW 215

TWO YOUNG AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS 227

_De Senectute Cantorum_ 245

IMPRESSIONS IN THE THEATRE

I _The Land of Joy_ 281

II A Note on Mimi Aguglia 298

III The New Isadora 307

IV