University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.


Dedicated to my Friend,
M.A. McC.




PREFACE.


These short sketches, which can be read in a few moments' time,
are intended to give the reader as clear as possible an outline
of the great dramatist-composer's work.

The author is deeply indebted to Professor G.T. Dippold, to
Messrs. Forman, Jackman, and Corder, and to the Oliver Ditson
Company, for the poetical quotations scattered throughout
the text.




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