et un peu dUlusion est necessaire au bonheur. CHEEBITLEKZ
EIGHTEENTH EDITION THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON MACMILLAN CO., LTD.
1908 All riffhts reserved COPYRIGHT, MoOLTJJta COMPACTS 1880.
COPYRIGHT, 1806, BY THE MACMILLAltf COMPANY. Printed August, 1896
reprinted June, 1897 September, 1900 February, 1 903 March, 1905
June, 1908. ISTorixraotr Berwick fe Smith, Norwood, M. u., r z
-l-V-- xt C- xt O t-t-C--.. 4.- r PKEFACE. IN preparing for the
public letters which were written only for home, I have hoped that
some readers would find in them the charm of style which the
writers friends fancy them to possess that others would think the
description of her masters amid their pupils, and especially Liszt,
worth preserving while piano students would be grateful for the
information that an analysis of the piano technique has been made,
such as very greatly to diminish the difficulties of the
instrument. How much of Herr Deppes piano method is original with
himself, pianists must decide. That he has at least made an
invaluable resume of all or most of their secrets, m sister
believes no student of the instrument who fairly and
conscientiously examines into the matter will deny. M. FAY PEIRCE.
CHICAGO, Dec., 1880. KANSAS CITY, . aC PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH
EDITION. Miss FAYS little book has been so popular in her own
country as to have gone through half a dozen editions, and even in
German, into which it was translated soon after its first
appearance, it has had much success. It is strange that it has not
been already published in England, where music excites so much
attention, and where works on musical sub jects are beginning to
form a distinct branch of literature. This is the more
remarkablebecause it is thoroughly read able and amusing, which
books on music too rarely are. The freshness and truth of the
letters is not to be denied. We may laugh at the writers
enthusiasm, at the readiness with which she changes her methods and
gives up all that she has already learnt at the call of each fresh
teacher, at the certainty with which every new artist is announced
as quite the best she ever heard, and at the glowing and con fident
predictions not, alas, apparently always realised. But no one can
laugh at her indomitable determination, and the artistic
earnestness with which she makes the most of each of her
opportunities, or the brightness and ease with which all is
described in choice American, and each successive person placed
before us in his habit as he lives. Such a gift is indeed a rare
and precious one. Will Miss Fay never oblige us with an equally
charming and faithful 3 PKEFACE. account of music and life in the
States Hitherto musical America has been almost an unknown land to
us, described by the few who have attempted it in the most opposite
terms. Their singers we already know well, and in this respect
America is perhaps destined to be the Italy of the future, if only
the artists will consent to learn slowly enough. But on the subject
of American players and American orchestras, and the taste of the
American amateurs, a great deal of curiosity is felt, and we
commend the subject to the serious attention of one so thoroughly
able to do it justice. GEORGE GROVE. December, 1885. PEEFACB TO THE
GERMAN EDITION. 2 te toorliegenben SBriefe einer 9tnterifonerin in
bic eitnatlj, btc int Original bereits in gtteiter Slitflage
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