Excerpt from Richard Wagner's Letters to August Roeckel We simply like his music, or we don't like it, and trouble our heads no further on the matter. In France, on the contrary, the literature on Wagner is almost as voluminous and at least as valuable as that in Germany. All the principal Journals and Reviews - the Revue des deux M oudes, the Revue de Paris, the Revue Bleue, the Revue Blanche, etc. - have frequent and interesting articles on Wagner, signed by men of the highest literary standing, such as Catulle Mendes, Mallarme, Gaston Paris, Schure. 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.