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CONTENTS: The Lord's Prayer in B--A Son of Liszt--A Chopin of the
Gutter--The Piper of Dreams--An Emotional Acrobat--Isolde's
Mother--The Rim of Finer Issues--An Ibsen Girl--Tannhaeuser's
Choice--The Red-Headed Piano Player--Brynhild's Immolation--The
Quest of the Elusive--An Involuntary Insurgent--Hunding's Wife--The
Corridor of Time--Avatar--The Wegstaffes give a Musicale--The Iron
Virgin--Dusk of the Gods--Siegfried's Death--Intermezzo--A Spinner
of Silence--The Disenchanted Symphony--Music the Conqueror.
"It would be difficult to sum up 'Melomaniacs' in a phrase. Never did a
book, in my opinion at any rate, exhibit greater contrasts, not,
perhaps, of strength and weakness, but of clearness and obscurity. It is
inexplicably uneven, as if the writer were perpetually playing on the
boundary line that divides sanity of thought from intellectual chaos.
There is method in the madness, but it is a method of intangible ideas.
Nevertheless, there is genius written over a large portion of it, and to
a musician the wealth of musical imagination is a living spring of
thought."--HAROLD E. GORST, in _London Saturday Review_ (Dec. 8, 1906).