. Bohemian Paris of to-day . earty farewell,the glee club singing the parting song at the is leading tenor of the glee club. LE CABARET DU SOLEIL DOR IT is only the name of the Cabaret of the GoldenSun that suggests the glorious luminary of yet it is really brilliant in itsown queer way, though that brilliancyshines when all else in Paris is darkand dead,—at night, and in the latesthours of the night at that. My acquaintance with the GoldenSun began one foggy night in a coldNovember, under the guidance ofBishop. Lured by the fascinations of noc-turnal life in the Quartie
. Bohemian Paris of to-day . earty farewell,the glee club singing the parting song at the is leading tenor of the glee club. LE CABARET DU SOLEIL DOR IT is only the name of the Cabaret of the GoldenSun that suggests the glorious luminary of yet it is really brilliant in itsown queer way, though that brilliancyshines when all else in Paris is darkand dead,—at night, and in the latesthours of the night at that. My acquaintance with the GoldenSun began one foggy night in a coldNovember, under the guidance ofBishop. Lured by the fascinations of noc-turnal life in the Quartier Latin, andby its opportunities for the study oflife in its strangest phases, Bishophad become an habitual nighthawk,leaving the studio nearly everyevening about ten oclock, afterhe had read a few hours fromtreasured books gleaned fromthe stalls along the river, toprowl about with a sketch-book, in quest of queer char-acters and queer places, where strange lives were lived in the dark half of the day. His knowledge of 171. IN HEAVY BOHEMIA BOHEMIAN PARIS obscure retreats and their peculiar habitues seemedunHmited. And what an infinite study they offer!The tourist, doino- Bohemian Paris as he wouldthe famous art galleries, or Notre-Dame, or theMadeleine, or the cafes on the boulevards, may,under the gruidance of a wise and discerningf stu-dent, visit one after another of these out-of-the-wayresorts where the endless tragedy of human life isworking out its mysteries ; he may see that oneplace is dirtier or noisier than another, that the menand women are better dressed and livelier here thanthere, that the crowd is bieger, or the liohts brio-hter ;but he cannot see, except in their meaningless outeraspects, those subtle differences which constitute theheart of the matter. In distance it is not far fromthe Moulin Rouge to the Cabaret du Soleil dOr,but in descending from the dazzling brilliancy andfrothy abandon of the Red Mill to the smoke andgrime of the Golden Sun, we drop fro
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