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Excerpt from Famous Actors and Their HomesDrew is what is known as a society actor and his personal knowledge of society and its ways has aided him greatly in acting and 'dressing society roles. Just as women look up to certain actresses as models in the art of costuming themselves, and copy or try to copy them in their own attire, so to a host of men Drew is a glass of fashion and a mould of form, though men do not set so much store by these ...

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Excerpt from Modern WomenHe was very deliberate. Pouring out his Scotch, he added a squirt from the siphon, and listened to the tinkle of the ice as it ¿oated against the sides of the thin glass, before he drank. Through the large, oblong window.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten B...

Excerpt from Wagner's Life and Works, Vol. 2: Nibelung, Tristan, Mastersingers, ParsifalWotan, except in the noble scene with Britnnnilde in the finale of The Valkyr, is a bore. He is Wagner's one failure - and Wagner's failure was on as colossal a scale as his successes were. Wotan is the chief of the gods, a race marked out by fate for annihilation. Walking in the shadow of impending destruction he would, one might sup pose, bear himself wit...

Excerpt from My Rosary: And Other PoemsBut after every reading from my own writings which I have given, many of my listeners have asked me where they could procure my poems and stories in collected form. I was obliged to answer that they were scattered through the pages of the various periodicals to which I contribute. I have now, at the instance of several ladies, whose kindness in this matter it would be ungra cions to pass over without my m...

Excerpt from Opera Singers: A Pictorial Souvenir, With Biographies of Some of the Most Famous Singers of the DayThe manner in which Mr. Conried came to engage Caruso is most interest ing. When he became Grau's successor he made up his mind that the time was ripe for a revival Of interest in Italian opera. But where was the tenor for the experiment. It must be remembered that Conried had not been an impresario, but an actor, and after that the ...

Excerpt from Wagner and His IsoldeON reading, in the German original, the letters and journals relating to one of the most fascinating episodes in Wagner's ca reer, his romance with Mathilde Wesendonk who inspired his Tristan und Isolde, it seemed to me a foregone conclusion that the book would be translated in its entirety. But as a complete translation could result only in a bulky and somewhat expensive publica tion, and as, in my judgment, ...

Excerpt from Wagner's Ring of the NibelungSeptember 22, 1869, the Valkyr, on the same stage, June 26, 1870. Siegfried and the Dusk of the Gods were not performed until 1876, when they were produced at Bay reuth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

Excerpt from Wagner's Life and Works, Vol. 1: Biography, Bayreuth Echoes, Writings, Critics, OperasHese volumes are the outgrowth of an analysis of The Ring of the Nibelung, published as apamphlet three years ago. It having'passed through four editions, a fifth enlarged and illustrated edition was published last fall. The success of this having proved its usefulness to the lay musical public, the present volumes were under taken. They make pre...

Wagner's Life and Works - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly pu...

Wagner's Life and Works - Vol. 2, Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Han...

Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publi...

Excerpt from Wagner's Music-Dramas Analyzed: With the Leading Motives, Nibelung, Tristan, Mastersingers, ParsifalBut if Wotan is a failure, Brunnhilde is on the other hand Wagner's noblest creation. She takes upon herself the sins of the gods and the Nibelungs and by her expiation frees the world from the curse of lust for wealth and power. She is a perfect dramatic incarnation of the profound and beautiful metaphysical argument upon which the...

Excerpt from The New Jersey Coast and Pines: An Illustrated Guide-Book (With Road-Maps)His aims to be an accurate descriptive guide-book to the Jersey Coast-from Sandy Hook to Ata lantic City - and to the Jersey Pine Plains. New York City is taken as the starting-point, and the Sandy Hook and Jersey Southern routes as those respectively to the Coast and Pines, although one chapter, for the sake of completeness, describes the all-rail route m'a...