TO
W.J. HENDERSON
WHO HAS HELPED ME TO RESPECT MUSICAL CRITICISM
AUTHOR'S NOTE
The author is beholden to the Messrs. Harper & Brothers for permission to use a small portion of the material in [Chapter I.], the greater part of [Chapter IV.], and the [Plates] which were printed originally in one of their publications; also to the publishers of "The Looker-On" for the privilege of reprinting a portion of an essay written for them entitled "Singers, Then and Now."
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