Billy Barlow reference-

"In Bohemia, with Du Maurier," 1896, by Felix Moscheles, with 63 original drawings by G. Du Maurier. On line.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13517/13517-h/13517-h.htm
One might have to use-
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13517

120-122 of the Gutenberg text reproduction.
"(Billy Barlow was, I really don't know why, for the time being, synonymous with George du Maurier.)"

A whole section there- Oh! dear Raggedy, oh!

"Ah! Chopin's 'Impromptu'! Schubert's 'Serenade'!
Have you ever heard these pretty decently played?
If you haven't, old fellow, I'll merely observe
That a treat most felicious you have in reserve.
Lord! How Billy's soul grazes in diggins of clover,
While Stefani rapidly fingers them over,
Feelingly, fervidly fingers them over.
Illusion that enervates! Feverish dream
Of excitement magnetic, inspired, supreme,
Or despairing dejection, alternate, extreme!
Gad! These opium-benumbing performances seem,
In their sad wild unresting irregular flow
Just expressly concocted for William Barlow.
Oh! dear Raggedy, oh!"

Sorry, but the writing in that book just flows- Couldn't help but put some of it down.

I hope this lead isn't false, but I think a Barlow-stick in the mud reference is somewhere in that classic.