“They are agreeable and somewhat highly wrought examples of the ‘subjective,’ literary criticism.” Richard Aldrich.
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 763. N. 17, ’06. 320w. |
Young, Alexander Bell Filson. Wagner stories **$1.30. McClure.
The stories of the Wagner operas from “Flying Dutchman” to “Parsifal” are told “for the benefit of those idle people who go to the opera without having taken the trouble to read the poem on which the music is founded. They are the larger proportion of audiences, and this handy guide to knowledge ought to help them. They will get not only a very good idea of the stories themselves, but a fairly definite idea, in Mr. Eric Maclagan’s metrical translations of detached passages, of that curious amalgam which Wagner constructed out of partly poetical and partly musical elements.”—(Sat. R.)
“Both useful and attractive.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 615. My. 18. 140w. | |
| Nation. 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 150w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“A serious book for young people but the old tales are well told in a manner that older people will find interesting.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w. |
“The writing of Mr. Young’s book is done with fluency, and is best when it tries least to ‘be inspired with some breadth of the emotional atmosphere which it is the peculiar quality of Wagner’s music to produce.’”