...puts his head in his hands. "Anyone who thinks that this will not be a tragedy and& travesty is mad." Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it...humble, there's no place like home; A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere? —John Howard...

...Pleasures and Palaces, borrowing the opening lines of America's most popular nineteenth-century song, "Home, Sweet Home." Mid pleasures and palaces Though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. To remind listeners of the source of this borrowing, a snippet of melody from "Home,...