Avowals
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: Priv. print. for subscribers only by Boni and Liveright Subjects: Literature, Modern Humor / Form / Essays Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It ...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: Priv. print. for subscribers only by Boni and Liveright Subjects: Literature, Modern Humor / Form / Essays Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER 8. IN the beginning of the last century a musician, Felicien David, came to Algeria with some painters in search of art (in those days local colour was looked upon as art), and hearing the Arabs singing round their camp fires rhythms that seemed to him unknown in Western Europe, he introduced many of them into his symphony, Le Disert, and with such good result that when his symphony was performed in Paris Berlioz wrote an article entitled A New Beethoven. For some days, some weeks, or some months, David and his symphony were the subject of discussion in inartistic circles, but one evening Auber, who had not ventured an opinion till then, said, on being pressed to give one: I will wait till David gets off his camel; and in the nineties, for no better reason than Beethoven's name was spoken in connection with David, Shakespeare's was evoked when Mr Kipling came to England with Plain Tales from the Hills. For local colour was still looked upon as art, and Mr Kipling's stories were filled even fuller with hookahs and elephants, parakeets and crocodiles, than Le Desert with Arab rhythms. Life does but repeat itself, but there is always a shade of difference in every repetition, so it was not a fellow- writer but the editor of Lippincott's Magazine who asked Mr Kipling to get off his camel. His proposal to Mr Kipling was for a story in which there s...
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