III. Principaux articles étrangers

ALLEMAGNE : Dayrcuther Blàtter, no 102, 189-4. — ... Ein ernstes, fleissiges, viel enthaltendes Werk, welches den franzœsischen Kunstfreunden ausser der sinnentsprechenden Uebersetzung des Ringes einen mythologischen und einen musikalischen Leitfaden nebst eingehender, lebensvoUer Belehrung ueber Wîigners Wirken undBestreben als Dichter, Musiker und Kûnstler darbie>et...

Hans von WOLZOGEN.

ANGLETERRE : Glasgow Herald, 18 octobre 1894. — ... This is a prose translation of Wagner's « Ring of the Nibelungen ». It is carefuily done, and though not literal — perhaps ail the more that it is not literal — may be accepted as a very faithful version of the German original. It is copiously furnished with explanatory notes, and is accompanied by a « musicographical commentary ». In addition to this, one of the joint

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transiators contributos a vory long introduction, dealinçr with W'ap:ner gencrally, whiist the other of them follows with an essay on the Germanie and vScandinavian Cycles.

Thèse varions éléments consLitutc a volume which ought lo be welcome to enthusiastic Wagnerians, and which is biilky and solid enough to satisf the greodiest of them..,

BELGIQUE : L'Art moderne, Le Maf/asiii littéraire, La Jeune Belf/i~ que. Le Guide niusicat. — Voyez Ùe-