Peter Whiffle

Peter Whiffle

His Life and Works

Books by
Carl Van Vechten

Interpreters

In the Garret

The Merry-go-round

The Music of Spain

The Tiger in the House

Music and Bad Manners

Lords of the Housetops

Music After the Great War

Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works

Peter Whiffle
His Life and Works

Carl Van Vechten

New YorkAlfred · A · Knopf
MCMXXII

Copyright, 1922, by
Alfred A. Knopf
, Inc.


Published, April, 1922

Set up and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y. Bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.

Manufactured in the United States of America

To the memory of
my mother,
Ada Amanda Fitch Van Vechten

"'Tingling is the test,' said Babbalanja, 'Yoomy, did you tingle, when that song was composing?'

"'All over, Babbalanja.'"

"We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

Dencombe: The Middle Years.

"Les existences les plus belles sont peut-être celles qui ont subi tous les extrêmes, qui ont traversé toutes les températures, rencontré toutes les sensations excessives et tous les sentiments contradictoires."

Remy de Gourmont: Le Chat de Misère.

"The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiosity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than any one else."

Edmund Gosse: Books on the Table.

"O mother of the hills, forgive our towers;
O mother of the clouds, forgive our dreams."

Edwin Ellis.


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