| page | | In Defence of Bad Taste | 11 | | Music and Supermusic | 23 | | Edgar Saltus | 37 | | The New Art of the Singer | 93 | | Au Bal Musette | 125 | | Music and Cooking | 149 | | An Interrupted Conversation | 179 | | The Authoritative Work on American Music | 197 | | Old Days and New | 215 | | Two Young American Playwrights | 227 | | De Senectute Cantorum | 245 | | Impressions in the Theatre | | I The Land of Joy | 281 | | II A Note on Mimi Aguglia | 298 | | III The New Isadora | 307 | | IV Margaret Anglin Produces As You Like It | 318 | | The Modern Composers at a Glance | 329 | | Footnotes | 330 | | Index | 331 |
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.
In Defence of Bad Taste "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.
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