Excerpt from How to Sing a Song: The Art of Dramatic and Lyric Interpretation This little book is written with the purpose to help those who mistaken about what is Art will vainly struggle against their proper ignorance. Men sometimes make 'war on behalf of a humanitarian ideal, artists always struggle for the same ideal, but the former believe they will save the world by Spreading wholesale Death, the latter by universal Love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.