The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.