The Madness of Day by Meredith Nicholson and Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele, first published in 1917. Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was a best-selling author from Indiana, United States, a politician, and a diplomat. "May to Mr. Nicholson is neither a person nor a month. It is a state of mind and an intoxication of spirit. The little tale is a gay and joyous fantasy that plays with the imagination like the wind through new-leafed trees."?-New York Sun. "No one who wishes to be charmed out of himself or herself for an hour or so should neglect to read the story."?-Philadelphia Ledger. "Meredith Nicholson has written nothing more charmingly fanciful or more filled with the spirit of the springtime than 'The Madness of May.'"-St. Louis Republic.
