WAGNER AS I KNEW HIM
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WAGNER
A S I K N E W H I M
BY
FERDINAND PRAEGER
NEW YORK
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
15 EAST SIXTEENTH STREET
1892
Copyright, 1892,
By CHARLES J. MILLS.
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF DYSART,
President of the London Branch of the United
Richard Wagner Society.
THE EARL OF DYSART.
My Lord:—
If an intimacy, an uninterrupted friendship, of close upon half a century during which early associations, ambitions, failures, successes, and their results were frankly discussed, entitles one to speak with authority on Richard Wagner, the man, the artist, his mental workings, and the doctrine he strove to preach, then am I fully entitled so to speak of my late friend.