XIV FACSIMILE OF A PORTION OF THE MS. OF THE "SONATA TRAGICA"

XV FACSIMILE OF A PASSAGE FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. OF THE "KELTIC"
SONATA

XVI THE MUSIC-ROOM AT PETERBORO




... we grow immortal,
And that ... harp awakens of itself
To cry aloud to the grey birds; and dreams,
That have had dreams for fathers, live in us.

--_The Shadowy Waters._




THE MAN

CHAPTER I

RECORDS AND EVENTS


Edward MacDowell, the first Celtic voice that has spoken commandingly
out of musical art, achieved that priority through natural if not