“The naïveté of the book is inimitable.... That marvelous, appalling, mad thing named genius, at once the despair of those who do and those who do not possess it, is here pictured with extraordinary fascination and power.”--_Chicago Tribune._ “Uncommon power distinguishes it; ... a curiously interesting book.”--_Chicago Record-Herald._ “A work of unusual character; ... entirely original in its scope.”--_San Francisco Chronicle._ “Take it how you will, ‘The Diary of a Musician’ is wonderful.”--_Lucille Wetherell in Powers’ Reviews of the New Books, Minneapolis._ Henry Holt and Company _29 W. 23d St._ (VIII ’04) _NEW YORK_ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Emboldened text is surrounded by equals signs: =bold=. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Mr. Waddy's Return, by Theodore Winthrop