New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-11

His heirs sold it to Herr R0ser. music dealer in
Wdrzburg. in 1879 Wagner heard of it, and tried
to get possession of it by legal process but failed
though the Court guaranteed him protection
against a public performance of the music. From
description Of the plot and some Of its lines
printed in the "Tageblatt" of Berlin. it is OBJ
vious that young Wagners lines libretto
poetry OF the most conventional kind. This is
the kind of sentiment in which the principal
characters (Kadot, the young who falls in
love with his friends bride at the altar, and Ada
the bride) indulge in the septet:
He:
o war ich nimmer hierher gezogen,
o haiti ich nimmer dies Fest gesehn n!
Dies Fest verspottel meme SchmerZen,
Der Jubel h0hnt frech meme hual!
She
VIE wunderbar und unbegreifich,
Erscheint mir seine Gegenwart
VIE ahnungsvoll und. ach, vie angst1ch,
Erfasst sen Wesen mich, sein Blick
The names of three of the characters Wagner
introduced in his "Feen'-Ada. Arindal and
Lcra.
After a delay of some weeks the fifth volume
OF MI William Ashton Es's translation OF
Richard Wagner's Prose Works" has appeared,
Ike its predecessors from the press of kegan
Paul Trench Triibner & Co. QItG), London
Following the custom adopted at the beginning
of his laborious undertaking. Mr.. Ellis has again
found n title for the volume though this time
il is not one that characterizes its contents gen
orally. but only desgnates the priLcipal essay
contained in the volume. This is ACTORS ana
Singers"-certainly one Of the best OF wagner
literary pr auctions. The contents OF the VOL
ume besides this essay are the poem, 10 the
German ARMY Before Paris" (Which might well
have been spared. the skt on the French "A
Capituyation" in which Wagner attempted an
imitation Of the style of Aristophanes and got
himself laughed at from unexpected quarters
"Reminiscences of Auber, beethoven, Inc
Destiny Of OPERA" THE Rendering ("hy moi
the trying out"D of Beethovens Ninth sym
phory" and the letters to AN Actor, An
Italian Friend" the "Burgomaster OF Bologna
to Erie drich Niatzsche and lesser articles on the
German operate stage of to-day. on the title.
".iusFdrama" a prologue to the reading OF
Die GGtterdammerung," and reports on the
Bayreuth enterprise down to the laying OF the
f,urCation-stone of the theatre. Wagner stu
douts will recognize that this list comprises
Practically all the writings from the winter of
1870 10 the spring of 1873, and that they make
III the ninth volume of the collected writings in
German Mr. Ellis confesses that he has ex-
periencod a growing difficulty in translating the
latest writings of Wagner, but he has done his
duty faithfully and has again deserved the
thanks of even those whose familiarity with
German might seem to render the use of an Eng
ush version unnecessary, by his own admira-
lilo summaries and induces. That he Is nothing
IL not the champion. Of his author all well know
who have read the previous volumes OF his
translation or the reviews of them which nave
appeared in The Tribune. Again Is ne 1ouhd
faithful 10 his old policy in TINS instance the
letter to Nietzsche seeming 10 him TO call 1or
g discussion in the preface or the sudden chahse
OF attitude on the part OF Nietzsche toward
Wagner-a subject whose most RIDICULOUS sioe
is the fact that it took the English people, VINO
taye distressed themselves most about IT, 50
,,,ri,Iv l,nC 10 find it out. And after all said
and done nothing can be palmer than the iac'
that what Nietzsche wrote about wagner never
signi;led even a litt'e-neither when he praised
lin as an altogether superterrestrial genius nor
when he damned him as mountebank WORDS
are becoming singular play things in the last dec
AIDES Of the century. But ideas are just as vaiu-
able as ever they were.
Minor Notes: The dates OF the Philharmonic
Society's concerts next season are November 10
Doceuher II January =, February g. March 3
ard April . with public rehearsals on the at
,ernnons of the days Immediately preceding
Miss Leonora Jackson, a young Ameri-
oan vioIinist pupil of Joachim, who has been
axtreynely successful in Berlin, recently played
., q music festival held in C0then. under the
a,roc,;on Of August Klughardt, and was at
oo engaced for two orchestral concerts In
Dessau next winter.
rar,, announcements of the engagement OF
foreign artists must always be taken with some