............................................................... 106 Wagnerian Singers ...................................................................... ...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ...y is a cave, in which he hides from the light like the eyeless fish of the American caverns. Before the cur- tain rises the music already tells us tha... ...d repetition of the first and second. For example, given the first line of Pop Goes the Weasel or Yankee Doodle, any musical cobbler could supply the ... ...he sing- ing is sometimes tolerable, and sometimes abominable. Some of the singers are mere animated beer casks, too lazy and conceited to practise th... ...nce, with the more formidable instruments be- neath the stage, so that the singers have not to sing through the brass. The effect is quite perfect. Ba...