The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Two Places of Amusement

W. H. F. "Two Places of Amusement." New-York Saturday Press, February 15, 1859, 2.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
music criticism
Abstract

A story of a fictitious man named George Augustus whose apathy and boredom with life lead him away from the Academy of Music, toward a cruder establishment called the CaféChantant where finds pleasure and gets drunk.