Carl Van Vechten, in The Double Dealer: “It is high time that the world should know something of the works of Ronald Firbank. He is the Pierrot of the Minute. Plus chic que le futurisme. Aubrey Beardsley in a Rolls-Royce. Sacher-Masoch in Mayfair. ‘A Rebours’ À la mode. Aretino in Piccadilly. Jean Cocteau at the Savoy. The Oxford Tradition with a dash of the Paris bains de vapeurs.... Firbank plays Picasso’s violin.”