Excerpt from Of Dandyism and of George Brummell

The translator was so much impressed with the author's insight and With the brilliancy of his style, that he has at tempted to suggest in English as near the original as possible what must in its essential elegance almost altogether evaporate from the silver vessel. But he is at the same time conscious of his model's defects. They were in great part the defects of qualities, for Barbey d'aurevilly was all his life an idealist. Before inditing this monograph he had a preconceived theory of Dandyism, which he fitted on to Brummell, very adroitly, it is true, but not without gloss ing over or accentuating certain points in his hero's life, which did not quite reconcile themselves with this theory.

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