Richard Wagner's Prose Works #226482

With an apology for the above digression, I must now proceed to a review of the circumstances in which the various articles embodied' in the present volume were written by their author. It will be noticed that an interval Of three years occurs between the first article, that on Spohr's Jessonda, and the period of renewed literary activity which begins with the Introduction to the earliest number of the Bayreuther Blatter. To tell the truth.