The Merry-Go-Round

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


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.

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.