[61] It would be interesting to know how Mr. Ellis, who was not present at the supper, is able to decide that the account of a man who was present is "exaggerated," but still has "a grain of truth in it."
[62] How does Mr. Ellis know?
[63] Mein Leben, pp. 568, 569.
[64] See Mein Leben, pp. 627, 641, 656, 659, 662, &c.
[65] Mein Leben, p. 631.
[66] Mein Leben, p. 755.
[67] See the Fortnightly Review for July 1905.
[68] It is less generally known that while Cosima was still the wife of Bülow she bore Wagner two daughters—Isolde, born in Munich on April 10, 1865, and Eva, born at Tribschen on February 10, 1867.
[69] It was the third case of the kind, though the Madame Laussot and Frau Wesendonck affairs apparently did not go so far.
[70] Wagner's candour about Minna contrasts strongly with the concealments the worshipping Wagnerian biographers practise with regard to the fact of his son Siegfried being born out of wedlock. At the end of the first volume of the Glasenapp Life, for example, is a genealogical table of the Wagner family from 1643. It ends thus:—