At the Sign of the Van; Being the Log of the Papyrus, With Other Escapades in Life And Letters
The book At the Sign of the Van; Being the Log of the Papyrus, With Other Escapades in Life And Letters was written by author Monahan, Michael, 1865-1933 Here you can read free online of At the Sign of the Van; Being the Log of the Papyrus, With Other Escapades in Life And Letters book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is At the Sign of the Van; Being the Log of the Papyrus, With Other Escapades in Life And Letters a good or bad book?
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(lim.). And O Babylon, didst thou not know A single impresario of the Oscar Haramerstein species? — (Wegglike, one involuntarily drops into poetry at the mere thought of him). Was there not one Hebrew "barker" within thy gates? Well mightst thou laugh to scorn the curses of Jeremiah ! . . . It seems probable that the Babylonians were not given to anything like so much of the Noise we euphemistically term music, at their public and pri- vate entertainments. The thought calls up a yearn- ing regr...et for Babylon, in spite of the harsh opin- ions of Jeremiah. In this particular, who shall question their good taste ? The spectacle of people trying to eat and converse while suffering the im- pact of a strident phonograph, an athletic orchestra, a leather-lunged tenor, a screeching soprano or a colored quartet, — was doubtless undreamed of in Babylon, and had such aids to enjojTnent flourished there, they would perhaps have made unnecessary some of the curses of Jeremiah. So, too, it may be granted that the Babylonian idea of a good time never comprehended those alleged cafes-chantants BABYLON 20 1 (Parisian-Hebrew) where people vulgarly eat and drink the while vulgarity "entertains" them from the stage.
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