Henry Holt and Company
Publishers (VIII ’04) New York
2d printing of “a book of extraordinary interest as a study
from the inside of the ‘inwardness’ of a genius.”—Times
Saturday Review.
The Diary of a
Musician
Edited by DOLORES M. BACON
With decorations and illustrations by Charles Edward Hooper and H. Latimer Brown.
12mo. $1.50 net. (By mail $1.62.)
A picture of the soul of a genius, naïvely unconscious of the limitations imposed upon life by some of us who are not geniuses—and probably by some who are. A vivid picture is given of the grinding poverty of his youth on the Hungarian farm, his struggle for education, and his strange success. His last entries are touching, and somewhat in the nature of a surprise. The book runs over with marked humor.
“Much of that exquisite egotism, the huge, artistic Me and the tiny universe, the gluttony of the emotions, of the whole peculiar compound of hysteria, inspiration, vanity, insight and fidgets which goes to make up that delightful but somewhat rickety thing which we call the artistic temperament is reproduced.... ‘The Diary of a Musician’ does what most actual diaries fail to do—writes down a man in full. It is an entertaining study in naïveté and nerves, art-pains and genius-consciousness.”—Bookman.
“Especially interesting; ... many amusing situations.”—Public Opinion.