Bedouins : Mary Garden, Debussy, Chopin or the circus, Botticelli, Poe, Brahmsody, Anatole France, Mirbeau, Caruso on wheels, Calico cats, The artistic temperament; Idols and ambergris; with The supreme sin, Grindstones, A masque of music, and The vision malefic / by James Huneker. With various portraits of Mary Garden in operatic costume.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huneker, James, 1857-1921.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garden, Mary, 1874-1967.

Garden, Mary.

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Genre:

Essays.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 271 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.

Contents:

Part I. Mary Garden. Superwoman; Intimate; The baby, the critic, and the guitar; Interpreter; Mélisande and Debussy; The artistic temperament; The passing of Octave Mirbeau; Anarchs and ecstasy; painted music; Poe and his Polish contemporary; George Luks; Concerning Calico Cats; Chopin or the circus?; Caruso on wheels; Sing and grow voiceless; Anatole France: the last phase; A masque of music

Part II. Idols and Ambergris. The supreme sin; Brothers-in-law; Grindstones; Venus or Valkyr? The cardinal's fiddle; Renunciation; The vision malefic.

Notes:

"Published February, 1920."

With half-title.

"Books by James Huneker": [4] p. at end.

Dark blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine.

OCLC:

280110