Excerpt from The Opera, Past and the Opera Past and Present, an Historical Sketch
For a History of Opera - covering, as it does, over three centuries in four countries -to be brought within the compass of a volume like this, it must be either one of two things: something little better than a time-table, an annotated list of names and dates, or else a compendious sketch. The former plan might be excusably followed in a school text - book; though some grave doubts of its advisability might be entertained, even there. But, in a book that hopes to be read otherwise than under compulsion, it would be a self-stultifying impertinence. The other plan, of making the History a compendious sketch, is the only one to the purpose.
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