Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life of Richard Wagner, Vol. 6
Dear Reader,
I feel I owe you some apology for the length of the interval separating the appearance of the present volume from that of its predecessor. When you have gained an inkling of its cause, however, I just as strongly feel, you not only will forgive, but pity me; and should that pity merge into benignant sympathy, you will have pledged me to sincerest thanks. So bear with me a moment, while I unfold a private tale.
As the address beneath the preface to each volume of this Life will shew, the whole work hitherto has passed into the printer's hands from the same secluded little nook of hill-bound Sussex; and in this rural nest I hoped some day to finish it That hope has now been shattered by one of the most ruthlessly desecrating deeds that can ever have entered the mind of man, or woman. Once more, please listen: -
Overleaf you will find the reproduction of a photograph taken from my study window during our belated summer of last September, just as the final sheets of this volume's proofs, apart from its Index, were reaching my hands.
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