Excerpt from Richard Wagner's Prose Works, Vol. 6: Religion and Art 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. 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.