The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-01
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD

I NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Story Of the Emotions Which Make Up the
Life OF a Musical Genius In t.Tt1e Diary
Of MustcIan',-How He Felt When
Women "Raved"-some New Books
About to BE Issued.
I The Diary OF a Musician is the story OF
La string OF emotions. Each emotion for
the time possesses x, the musician
possesses him in the sense that devils pos
/ sessed people Of oid--to the extent that
he for the time Is the emotion, nothing
more, nothing less. If he falls into a
rage. he smasf1es the furniture. attempts
murder. or does something else equally
abnormal according to the circumstances
| and the opportunities. If he .conceives an
admiration for a. woman he simply falls
at her feet in worship: that Is his first
step; the next is much worse. If he is
! in need Of money, he cuts a piece of fur
out Of his coat and goes to a broker and
sells it. In any case for the time he is the
emotion.
Very naturally such a creature has lit
tie moral sense. There is no room for it.
/ Even if there were the sense Of obliga-
ton would be snothered in his feelings
and lost. -'' r -'.
Such is the musician whose diary.
real or fictitious, has been edited by Doll
ores Marbourg Bacon. Some have been
4 attempting to guess who the musician Is,
and the name Of Kubelik has been mem
toned. If he is the author or the subject
from whom the study is made we are
sorry for him, for, then he is something
Of an emotional monstrosity. Someone
has called the book nasty; another has
said that .'the public will lap it up as a
cat does cream" There would be no
great inconsistency in both statements
being true. e. =
x is the son of peasant living not
far from Prague. His father Is a 'cellist
of some ability. The boy plays the violin
; and longs to. go to Prague to study. His
desire unsatisfed threatens to drive him
insane. Finally his father says he shall
go in the fall If the pigs bring in suffi-
cient money. After. that he writes in his
S diary: H.. <,~ -. !,
e 4 hear symphony in the squeal' Of the swine
n In every pound Of fat upon them, I behold
: paradise. ..r 49, .,-..
He goes to Prague, studies, shows q
strange power in his music, is engaged fol-
j. e. series Of concerts at Vienna and else
}, where, and begins to see the world ant
: do strange things. For example, his
5, manager is too solicitous about the young
S mans health, and keeps him too closely
It confined. K resents this His manager
q according to their contract must pay al
:. expenses. x, remembering this, de-
o cides that he will end his hotel imprisoir:
. ment then and there, and falls to smash
e ing the furniture in the rooms. The bee
:, - was the only thing left when the hote
~ proprietor and the musicians manage
. effected an entrance a little later. Afte
4 that x had five rooms at the hotel ant
It was allowed to come and go at his owl
70 pleasure.
IL Lack Of space will only permi
1T more than mere mention here o
= the youths heartless, utterly self
" ish treatment of the little invali
e friend who had encouraged him
to his studies at Prague. and Of his rela
le lions with the Countess Korniloff, t
touch whose hand, he says, he would Civ
IN Of his life all but the single moment {
re that touch, and whom afterward he trie
- to strangle for not going to her son whe
=. he was dying of diphtheria.
- What x has to say Of his first night
ID performance in this country is interestin
" and should give those who frantical
T. throw themselves at the feet of foreis
musical geniuses who come to this cour
IN try something to think over. Here is
part of it: $500. 4, .~. a.;
Last night the down to the from
AT uISC L thought Tue mousse dtLdckeu Win cl
III lepsy. I could only stand and look at the
oe queer antics, as those human waves undnlate
10 before me. : I used to help my father buy ca
tie by live weight, standing In their Enclosure
Internationally 1, began to lump together. q
those naked foreshoulders before and
ey calculate their value as they stood. - -. TIL
p they clasped their hands or waved them, III
nj reached up onto the stage. I felt If 1hp
~ arms were the feelers of the devilfsh That
T. used to be told Of in my childhood, and back
NC out Of reach.
q It was wonderful
IN felt the blood rush my face; my shnr
lie for these strange women almost sufocattn
at We have heard Of the raving of Amer
ke can women-some American women; fc
ar Laus Dec, all are not SO foolish-ov
ST. such geniuses. and we should think tn
90 such words would sting. They would
~ the ravers were capable of feeling t
49, - sting. Altogether the lifes picture is r
- pulsive, naive tho it is and interesting
a1, study Of an emotional nature borderil
ci on insanity. = - 80;
ice
for ,-> PORTRAIT: AND REALITY.