Various.--How not to be a genius.--The recantations of George Moore.--Crushed violets.--Baudelaire's letters to his mother.--The two temptations.--The Flaubert anniversary.--Roosevelt and Brandes.--Pennell talks about etching.--In praise of prints.--New Russia for old.--Cezanne.--Eili, Eili, lomo asovtoni?--Socialism and mediocrity.--Chopin, or The circus?--Art and alcohol.--The tragic Chopin.--Phases of the greater Chopin.--The twilight of Cosima I.--Idle speculations.--The master builder.--Verdi's Otello.--Faust and Mephisto.--Bohemian music.--The music of yesterday?--Liszt's only piano sonata.--Dreaming of Liszt.--A Brahma of the keyboard.--Contemporary bran.--A mood reactionary.--Musical "Potterism".--My "Childe Roland".--"Oscar" and Dvořàk.--Enrico Caruso