The Merry-Go-Round

by Carl Van Vechten

[106], [109], [152]
Follies, The, [16], [222], [223]
Foote, Arthur, [199], [202]
Ford, Richard, [285], [291]
Formes, Karl, [164]
Forum, The, [87]
Foster, Stephen, [29], [33], [152]
Fox, Della, [217], [218], [219]
Fox, Helen Kelsey, [208]
Fragonard, [18]
France, Anatole, [68], [185], [193]
Franck, César, [151], [315]
Franz, Robert, [23], [26], [93], [111]
Fremstad, Olive, [108], [156], [298], [300]
Freud, [50]
Frezzolini, Erminia, [261] et seq.
Frohman, Charles, [85], [296]
Gadski, Johanna, [155]
Galli, Signora, [254]
Galli-Curci, Amelita, [101], [102], [104], [114]
Gamble, George, [39], [54]
Ganne, Louis, [313]
Garcia, Manuel, [160]
Garcia, Manuel, fils, [252]
Garden, Mary, [84], [114] et seq., [131], [133], [155]
Gardiner, William, [267]
Garrick, David, [96], [260], [302]
Gautier, Théophile, [46], [58], [87], [131], [190], [225]
German music, [150]
Gerome, [61]
Gerster, Etelka, [269]
Giacosa, [284], [305]
Giardini, Felice de, [164]
Gibbons, Grinling, [19]
Gilbert, W. S., [107], [216], [221]
Giovannitti, Arturo, [305]
Gipsy, [100], [286]
Gizziello, [95]
Glaser, Lulu, [219]
Gluck, [29], [30], [96], [108], [135], [170], [232], [258], [259], [260], [310]
Goncourt, Brothers de, [302]
Goodrich, A. J., [199], [202]
Goodwin, Nat, [295]
Gosse, Edmund, [179]
Gounod, [117], [151], [272], [273]
Gourmont, Remy de, [48], [229]
Goya, [59], [287]
Grainger, Percy, [30], [330]
Grau, Maurice, [161]
Greek Plays, [103]
Greenstreet, Sidney, [324]
Greenwich Village, [16]
Gregory, Lady, [192]
Grétry, [170]
Grieg, Edvard, [93]
Grimm, [259]
Grisi, Giulia, [166], [263] et seq.
Grove, Sir George, [171], [202], [271]
Guilbert, Yvette, [107], [113], [114], [277]
Hadley, Henry, [197], [212]
Hadrian, [69]

Hale, Philip, [33]
Halévy, Jacques, [248]
Hall, Pauline, [219]
Handel, George Frederick, [25], [95], [97], [102], [113], [119], [172], [254]
Hanslick, Eduard, [102], [263]
Harris, Charles K., [202]
Harris, Frank, [55], [189], [190]
Hartmann, Eduard von, [43], [56], [60]
Hawthorne vases, [18]
Hay, Reverend John Stuart, [72]
Haydn, [28]
Heidelberg, [43]
Heifetz, Jascha, [287]
Heine, Heinrich, [82], [240], [286], [287]
Heinrich, Max, [107], [155], [246]
Helen of Troy, [82]
Heliogabolus, [68], [69], [72]
Héloïse, [82]
Helvetius, [259]
Henderson, W. J., [33], [115]
Herbert, Victor, [155], [216]
Hergesheimer, Joseph, [44], [153]
Herodotus, [86]
Hertz, Alfred, [155]
Hervieu, Paul, [228]
Heyse, Paul, [67]
Hichens, Robert, [75], [81]
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, [38]
Hirsch, Charles-Henry, [141]
Hirsch, Louis A., [222]
Hoff, Edwin, [221]
Hollins, Mabel, [219]
Homer, [76], [86]
Hopper, De Wolf, [107], [221]
Hopwood, Avery, [101], [236] et seq.
Horace, [76]
Howells, W. D., [74], [191]
Hubbard, Elbert, [39], [48]
Hughes, Rupert, [198], [199]
Hugo, Victor, [52], [55], [76], [87], [105]
Humperdinck, Engelbert, [24], [29], [173], [329]
Huneker, James, [33], [38], [55], [153], [154], [164], [173]
Huss, Henry Holden, [199], [202]
Huysmans, J. K., [43], [53], [70], [76], [80], [87], [151], [191], [308]
Ibsen, [302]
Incest, [60], [74], [84]
d'Indy, Vincent, [200]
Irving, Sir Henry, [294], [302]
Irwin, May, [110]
Ivan the Terrible, [79]
Jackson, Holbrook, [44], [63]
James, Henry, [59], [68], [231]
Janis, Elsie, [110], [222]
Jansen, Marie, [219], [222]
Jefferson, Joseph, [303], [304]
Jehovah, [82]
Jensen, Adolph, [24]
Jew, [58], [71], [152]
Joachim, Joseph, [156]
Jolson, Al, [110], [222]
Jones, Henry Arthur, [234]
Joseffy, Rafael, [155]
Judic, [220]

Jupiter, [82]
Kaiser, The, [79]
Kapila, [57]
Keane, Doris, [13]
Kellogg, Clara Louise, [166], [268], [269]
Kellow, Lottie A., [203], [204]
Kelly, Michael, [159], [160], [161], [170], [256]
Kendal, Mrs., [318]
Kenton, Edna, [41], [53]
Ker, Ann, [74]
Kern, Jerome, [23], [222]
Korngold, Erich, [329]
Koven, Reginald de, [216], [221]
Krehbiel, H. E., [100], [153], [155]
Krishna, [83]
Labatt, [104]
Lablache, Luigi, [163]
Laforgue, Jules, [43]
Laguerre, Mme., [260]
La Harpe, [260]
Lalo, Pierre, [33]
Lampridius, [70], [72]
Lavignac, Albert, [173]
Lecocq, Charles, [173], [216]
Lehar, Franz, [216]
Lehmann, Lilli, [100], [107], [155], [269], [270], [274]
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, [32], [149]
Lesbian, [75]
Lessing, Madge, [219]
Levey, Ethel, [110]
Lewes, George Henry, [294], [301]
Lienau's, [154]
Lind, Jenny, [248], [253], [265] et seq., [298]
Lindsay, Vachell, [314]
Lippincott's Magazine, [63]
Lisle, Leconte de, [57], [76]
Liszt, [25], [32], [240]
Lombard, Jean, [69]
Lombroso, [308]
Loomis, Harvey W., [200]
Louis XIV, [135], [137]
Louis XV, [12]
Love, [81], [82]
Loy, Mina, [188]
Lucca, Pauline, [269]
Lulli, [172]
Lumley, Benjamin, [162], [285], [286]
MacDowell, Edward, [25]
Macdonald, John Z., [208]
MacGill, Patrick, [299]
MacKaye, Percy, [235]
McCutcheon, George Barr, [296]
McIntosh, Nancy, [219]
Macy, John, [38]
Maeterlinck, Maurice, [117]
Mahler, Gustav, [28]
Male sopranos, [94]
Malibran, Maria, [164], [165], [166], [253]
Mallarmé, Stéphane, [43], [301]
Manet, [61], [289], [308]
Mapleson, J. H., [159], [284]
Mara, Gertrude Elisabeth, [255] et seq.
Marchesi, Mathilde, [102], [149], [252], [297]

Marco, Maria, [108], [288]
Marie Antoinette, [259], [260]
Marinetti, [282]
Mario, [102]
Marion, George, [28]
Marlowe, Julia, [319], [321]
Marnold, Jean, [32]
Marseillaise, [310] et seq.
Martyn, Edward, [192], [294]
Mary Magdalen, [66], [67], [68]
Mascagni, Pietro, [28], [275], [301]
Massenet, [27], [28], [116], [117], [119], [120], [151], [275]
Matisse, [19]
Maurel, Victor, [107], [120], [246]
May, Edna, [219]
Mayhew, Stella, [110]
Mazantinita, [287]
Mazarin, Mariette, [114]
Mazzoleni, [166]
Melba, Nellie, [102], [104], [107], [108], [114], [155], [156], [187], [271] et seq., [297]
Mellish, Fuller, [323]
Melody, [29], [93]
Mencken, H. L., [59], [65], [153], [197], [198], [202], [203], [212]
Mendelssohn, [23], [24], [26], [171], [202]
Mendès, Catulle, [43]
Meredith, George, [187]
Mérimée, Prosper, [58], [87], [131], [142]
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, [28], [29], [102], [157], [164], [252]
Michael Angelo, [227], [312]
Michelet, [76]
Milton, [257]
Mirbeau, Octave, [229], [230], [231], [232], [233]
Mitchell, Julian, [281]
Mitchell, Langdon, [303]
Modern Orchestra, [98]
Modulation, [30]
Moeller, Philip, [26], [236], [238] et seq.
Molière, [225], [230], [231], [298], [302]
Monbelli, [256]
Monkshood, G. F., [39], [54]
Montaigne, [150]
Montemezzi, Italo, [24], [330]
Montes, [189]
Monteverde, [102]
Montmartre, [126] et seq.
Monvel, Boutet de, [142]
Moore, George, [67], [134], [184] et seq., [231], [232], [294], [295], [307], [318], [320], [324]
Moors, The, [65]
Moreau, Gustave, [44], [61], [89], [191]
"Morrill, Higgins, and Co.," [71]
Moulin de la Galette, [133], [134]
Mount Edgcumbe, Earl of, [93], [94], [253], [254], [255]
Moussorgsky, [23], [152]
Mozart, [23], [24], [27], [28], [29], [31], [54], [88], [97], [101], [108], [119], [161], [173], [174], [205], [234], [248],

[268], [269], [270], [275], [276], [289], [298], [300], [305]
Mullin, W. T., [204] et seq.
Murillo, [190]
Murphy, Agnes G., [155]

Murska, Ilma de, [269]
Musset, Alfred de, [239], [240], [252]
Musette, [135]
Nachbaur, Franz, [164]
Names, Theory of, [49], [50], [56], [76]
Napoleon, [79], [192]
Naldi, Giuseppe, [160]
Nathan, George Jean, [283], [295]
Nazimova, Alla, [283], [305]
Negro Players, [283]
Newman, Ernest, [32], [150]
Niemann, Albert, [164]
Nero, [69], [71], [72]
Nerval, Gérard de, [31]
New York Times, The, [233]
Nicolai, Carl, [173]
Nicolini, [95]
Nielsen, Alice, [219]
Nijinsky, Waslav, [112], [183], [285], [301]
Nillson, Carlotta, [237]
Nilsson, Christine, [268], [269]
Nordica, Lillian, [270]
Offenbach, [216], [219]
Opéra-Comique, Paris, [131]
Orleneff, Paul, [283], [305]
Ornstein, Leo, [30], [104], [121], [298], [329]
Oysters, American, [158]
Pacchierotti, [93], [94], [95]
Pachmann, Vladimir de, [301]
Paganini, [172]
Palmer, Delmar G., [210], [211]
Pan, Peter, [137]
Parke, W. T., [171], [172], [256], [257], [258]
Parker, Horatio W., [23], [197], [212]
Pasta, Giuditta, [97], [249] et seq.
Pater, Walter, [70], [72], [137], [190], [307]
Pattee, Fred Lewis, [38]
Patti, Adelina, [101], [102], [104], [115], [153], [253], [269], [288], [298]
Payton, Corse, [304]
Peacock, Thomas Love, [301]
Péladan, Josephin, [43]
Persian miniatures, [19]
Pessimism, [56], [60], [61], [65]
Petrarch, [76]
Pfitzner, Hans, [200]
Perfumes, [79]
Phelps, William Lyon, [38]
Phémé, [86]
Philip II, [79]
Philistine, The, [39]
Philosophy of Edgar Saltus, [54], [56]
Picasso, Pablo, [19], [183]
Piccinni, Niccola, [24], [258]
Pinero, Arthur Wing, [234], [295], [302], [303], [321]
Pinto, Mrs., [257]
Pischek, Johann, [173]
Pistocchi, Francesco, [99]
Plagiarism, [79]
Poe, Edgar Allan, [44], [87]
Pogliani, Giacomo, [157]
Poiret, Paul, [154], [222]
Poisons, [51], [52], [59], [64], [76]

Pollard, Percival, [48]
Pompadour, Mme. de, [260]
Ponchielli, Amilcare, [175]
Popular music, [23]
Porpora, [95], [96], [99]
Pougy, Liane de, [201]
Pratella, Balilla, [329]
Puccini, Giacomo, [24], [26], [29], [100], [103], [108], [113], [157], [173], [175], [318], [329]
Puchol, Luisita, [288]
Puente, del, [159]
Purcell, Henry, [152]
Puritanism, [65]
Pyrrhonist, [179]
Quincy, de, [31]
Quinlan, Gertrude, [219]
Rabusson, [63]
Rachel, [250], [301], [302], [310]
Radcliffe, Mrs., [74]
Raff, Joseph Joachim, [23]
Ragtime, [110], [152], [290]
Rankin, Phyllis, [219]
Ravel, Maurice, [200], [315], [329]
Realism in fiction, [56], [77], [88]
Realistic acting, [105], [111]
Reeves, Sims, [263]
Reger, Max, [27], [29]
Rehan, Ada, [319], [320]
Reicher, Frank, [300]
Reinhardt, Max, [282]
Renan, [76]
Renaud, Maurice, [107], [246]
Repplier, Agnes, [9], [38], [69]
Reszke, Jean de, [100]
Retz, Gille de, [80]
Rimbaud, Arthur, [43]
Rimsky-Korsakov, [157], [299], [315]
Ring, Blanche, [110]
Ristori, [302]
Rives, Mme. Amélie, [48]
Rodin, Auguste, [129], [227], [228], [312]
Rome, [70], [71]
Ronalds, Lorillard, [69]
Ronconi, Giorgio, [97], [98], [246]
Ronsard, [76]
Roosevelt, Theodore, [120], [209]
Rops, Félicien, [312]
Rorer, Mrs., [149]
Rossini, Gioacchino, [25], [26], [28], [31], [33], [61], [97], [101], [102], [103], [142], [149], [168], [169], [248], [273], [288]
Rostand, [228]
Rowland, Adele, [222]
Rübgam, [164]
Rubini, Giovanni Battista, [163]
Rubinstein, Anton, [24], [112]
Runciman, J. F., [32], [234]
Russell, Lillian, [160], [220]
Russian Ballet, [282], [288], [315]
Rutherford, John S., [63]
Sacré-Coeur, Church of, [126], [130]
Sagan, Princesse de, [84]
St. Giorgio, Signor, [159], [160]
St. Paul's School, [42]
Salieri, Antonio, [170]
Salome, [66], [67], [86], [287]

Saltus, Edgar, [37] et seq., [117], [154], [187], [191], [225]
Saltus, Francis, [42]
Sanborn, Pitts, [118]
Sand, George, [26], [239], [240], [252]
Sanderson, Julia, [217]
Santley, Charles, [158], [167], [174], [264]
Sappho, [76], [82]
Sardou, [302], [303]
Satan, [58], [78], [286], [287]
Satie, Erik, [30], [329]
Saturday Review, The, [18]
Savoyarde, restaurant, [125], [126], [130], [131]
Scharwenka, Xaver, [155]
Scheherazade, [82]
Schillings, Max, [150]
Schoenberg, Arnold, [30], [32], [121], [329]
Schopenhauer, [43], [56]
Schroeder, Edwin Albert, [71]
Schroeder-Devrient, Wilhelmine, [99]
Schubert, [24], [27], [28], [33], [170], [205], [305], [310]
Schumann, [111], [274]
Scott, Cyril, [29], [329]
Scotti, Antonio, [107]
Scriptores Historiæ Augustæ, [70]
Seidl, Anton, [155]
Sembrich, Marcella, [104], [107], [108], [114], [115], [153], [271], [273] et seq.
Senesino, [95]
Shakespeare, [73], [76], [98], [147], [284], [298], [302], [305], [318] et seq.
Sharp, Cecil J., [30], [109]
Shaw, George Bernard, [42], [234], [235], [239], [318], [322]
Shepherd, Arthur, [200]
Sherwin, Louis, [222], [291], [293], [295]
Shield, William, [171], [172]
Siddons, Mrs., [18], [302], [303]
Simonds, W. E., [38]
Singing, [93] et seq.
Smith, Harry B., [222]
Snob, [50]
Socrates, [117]
Solomon, [19], [80], [82]
Sonata form, [33]
Sontag, Henrietta, [246] et seq.
Sophocles, [103], [302]
Sorbonne, [43]
Sousa, John Philip, [202], [209], [216]
Southeim, [164]
Spain, [19], [59], [62], [94], [100], [106], [142], [189], [190], [281] et seq.
Spiritualism, [43]
Spohr, Louis, [24]
Stanislavski, [283]
Stanton, Theodore, [38]
Starr, Hattie, [202]
Starr, Muriel, [253]
Steger, [164]
Stein, Gertrude, [19], [79], [229]
Steinlen, [139]
Steinway, William, [154]
Stevenson, R. L., [58], [74]
Stigelli, [166]

Stillman-Kelley, Edgar, [199], [202]
Straus, Oskar, [216]
Strauss, Johann, [25], [139], [216]
Strauss, Richard, [25], [30], [31], [32], [33], [100], [104], [113], [114], [120], [175], [330]
Stravinsky, Igor, [32], [100], [104], [114], [121], [152], [329]
Stuck, Franz von, [89]
Style in Singing, [98], [106], [107], [108], [109], [110], [116], [117], [118], [119], [245], [246], [249], [250], [251], [270], [273], [274], [276]
Style in Writing, [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [53], [55], [56]
Suetonius, [70], [72]
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, [107], [169], [216], [220], [221]
Swinburne, [76], [307]
Symonds, J. A., [72]
Symons, Arthur, [188], [232], [245], [293], [301], [303]
Synge, J. M., [103]
Tacitus, [72]
Taggart, Lucy L., [209]
Tamagno, Francesco, [120]
Tasso, [62]
Taste, [11] et seq.
Tchekhov, [303]
Tempest, Marie, [219], [252], [301]
Temps, Le, [18]
Terence, [302]
Terry, Ellen, [301]
Tetrazzini, Luisa, [102], [160]
Thèbes, Mme. de, [79]
Thomas, Ambroise, [173]
Thomas, Augustus, [235], [236], [295]
Thomas, Olive, [223]
Thomas, Theodore, [155]
Tiberius, [69]
Tichatschek, Joseph Aloys, [164]
Tilzer, Harry von, [202]
Tinney, Frank, [222]
Tissot, [67]
Toscanini, Arturo, [156]
Tradition, [24], [97], [281]
Troubetskoy, Prince, [157]
Tschaikovsky, [59], [312]
Turgeniev, [187], [252]
Twain, Mark, [261], [265]
Urban, Joseph, [222], [223]
Vagaries of genius, [55]
Vallière, Louise, de la, [13]
Valverde, Joaquín, [284] et seq.

Vaughn, Theresa, [219]
Verelst, Myndart, [56], [58]
Veiller, Bayard, [68]
Velasquez, [16], [190]
Verdi, Giuseppe, [120], [149], [173], [221], [270], [275], [298], [323]
Verlaine, Paul, [43]
Veronese, [16]
Versatility in acting, [300]
Vespasian, [69]
Viafora, [157]
Viardot, Pauline, [98], [250], [251], [252], [253]
Victory of Samothrace, The, [17], [312]

Vinci, Leonardo da, [190], [191], [301]
Wachtel, Theodor, [164]
Wagner, Richard, [23], [29], [32], [93], [96], [99], [100], [102], [104], [108], [113], [120], [150], [162], [173], [175], [270], [271], [274], [298], [301], [314]
Walter, Eugene, [68]
Walter, Gustav, [164]
Warfield, David, [295]
Wayburn, Ned, [281]
Weber, [27], [31], [98], [175]
Webster, [51]
Weckerlin, J. B., [169]
Weichsell, Carl, [172]
Weichsell, Charles, [172]
Weidley, David, [210]
Wendell, Barrett, [38]
Westminster Magazine, [39]
Whitmer, T. Carl, [200], [202]
Wilde, Oscar, [20], [43], [48], [55], [63], [64], [66], [70], [85], [86], [87], [187], [239], [282], [307]
Winter, William, [320], [324]
Wodehouse, P. G., [222]
Women, Saltus's opinion of, [73]
Wüllner, Ludwig, [246]
Yeats, W. B., [192]
Yohe, May, [219]
Zandonai, Riccardo, [329]
Zeus, [82]
Ziegfeld, Florenz, [283]
Zuloaga, [290]

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Transcriber's Notes

Variations in spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained from the original book except for the following changes:

[Table of Contents]: Added listings for Footnotes and Index.

Page [189]: Changed "their's" to "theirs".

Page [227]: Added "Young" to the chapter title, "Two Young American Playwrights," to match the Table of Contents and section title.

Page [259]: Changed "Eightenth Century" to "Eighteenth Century".