There's Chenier and Hugo and Alfred de musset-wonderful men, but, at the same time, there's a richness, a freshness about Alardyce-" Here the telephone bell rang, and he had to absent himself with a smile and a bow which signified that, although literature is delightful, it is not work.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The name Trilby also appears in a poem by Alfred de musset.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
You remember the de musset episode.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker