Ballet of the Nations: A Present-Day Morality (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Ballet of the Nations: A Present-Day Morality<br><br>For a quarter or so of a century Death''s celebrated Dances had gone rather out of fashion.<br><br>Then with the end of the proverbially bourgeois Victorian age there set in a revival of taste and therefore of this higher form of tragic art combining as it does the truest classical tradition with the romantic attractions of the best Middle Ages. In South Africa and the Far East and then in the Near East quite recently the well-known ballet-master Death had staged some of his vastest and most successful productions.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.