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This new edition, revised and brought up to date, includes “detailed plots of two hundred and thirty-five celebrated operas with critical and biographical remarks, dates, etc.” (Title page) There is a “prelude” by James Huneker. and an index to operas and one to composers. The work was originally published in 1899 and was revised in 1904 and again in 1910.
Booklist 16:286 My ’20
“Well told, with the chief points brought out with admirable directness. The arrangement is simple and the indices ample.”
+ Cath World 112:549 Ja ’21 130w
“One of the best existent guides to opera librettos.” H: T. Finck
+ N Y Evening Post p13 My 8 ’20 180w
ANNIN, ROBERT EDWARDS. Ocean shipping; elements of practical steamship operation. il *$3 (2½c) Century 656
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