| Show LOVE LETTERS the great ln outpourings to the only woman he ever really loved the fascination ot tho love letter written for other eyes Is akin to the sweetness of stolen waters tho privacy and the of such documents make for us latter day tors ot human emotions their chief charm in tho letters ot richard wagner to mathilde Mat bilde just published the master shows himself from a side familiar perhaps to bis intimate circle but new to many who know wagner only as the titan choso whoso brain conceived tho tann hauser and lohengrin my only love of mathildo tho master said she Is and remains my first and only love they were the zenith of of my life those fearful anxious beautiful years which I 1 spent in the ever growing enchantment of her nearness they bold all tho sweetness of my life mathilde relation to tho may bovery bo very briefly explained pla ined daughter of a worthy merchant of sho marrice at twelver otto partner in a great new york silk business in 1851 end onks with their three children built a villa at zurich on the green hill in zurich they met the master at marshal von bouse the acquaintance founded on mutual musical enthusiasms ripened into friendship and in 1857 wagner and frau minna his first wife came to live in a little house the refuge close to the villa his mate in mathilde young delicately beau a white unwritten leaf ehe calls herself wagner found hla spirits mate at zurich wagner lived more on tho green hill than in tho refuge blissfully peacefully the days flowed by frau minna wagner struck the first discord that eh should resent her husbands love for mathilde was inevitable she had never possessed his heart she was sickly fretful and in music a philistine there were scenes opened letters wild reproaches and passionate re he left the refuge he might not be with mathalde minnas companionship was unendurable he became a wanderer from venice lucerne paris vienna he sent mathilde letters music leavea from his diary accused art in one of letters he says who febia it more clearly than I 1 that it ia this accursed art which eternally gives me up to the torment of life and all the contradictions of existence but tor this strange gift this so strong preponderance of the creative fantasy within me I 1 might follow the guidance of the heart become a saint and as eaino I 1 might say 0 o thee come leave everything that ties theo burst the bonds of nature sawitri on all hallows eva at venice I 1 stood on the balcony and looked into the canals black flood the storm wind raged my leap my fall would have been unheard I 1 should be tree from torment f I 1 sprang could I 1 with my thoughts on thee on thy children now I 1 know that I 1 am destined to die in thy arms now I 1 know ua her husbands friend his friendship with mathildus Mat hildas bus band remained of the vannest wan nest many cordial greeting to otto tall him that I 1 love him I 1 fare well my dear noble child live peacefully sincerely and strengthen me thereby till the masters death his beet his truest friends remained the danks le married again bayreuth became an actuality we never missed the festival in bayreuth said frau Wesen douk how few of the pilgrims gathered from europia Euro paa egida feu essed the secret glory which now lees afian two years after ma death Is set down in black and white for all the world to bace loncon mall new york june 24 in following a policy adopted during boxer troubles in china when a department of chinese was established colant bia university has announced that next tall a lectureship in russian history will be started under the auspices of the faculty of political science the first incumbent of the new chair will lo 10 dr vladimir who has been the supervisor of the department of serials in the university library |
