Barnes & Noble Digital Library

This 1910 collection of satiric essays on editors, the publishing industry, music, and culture includes “Sclerosis of the Tastes,” “Intimations of Italian Opera,” “The Superiority of Our Inferiors,” “Unimportance of Women in Republics,” “Cheapness of the Costliest City on Earth,” “The Magazine Muse,” “Qualities Without Defects,” and “A Normal Hero and Heroine Out of Work.”