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Of outstanding importance was the revival of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, probably the most tuneful of all the works of Richard Wagner.
Die Meistersinger is Wagner's " human " opera. In The Ring he is accused of megalomania; in Tristan of hysteric; in Parsifal of religiosity. But in Die Meistersinger his only fault is length. And that perhaps is the fault of a restless and rapid age rather than of the master.
*Headers of the cheaper fiction magazines are aware that there has been in the market for some time a system of learning piano-playing by placing over the keys a paper diagram marked with the names of the keys. " Learn to play the piano in a week! Be popular and surprise your friends ! " In this way, though, the player has to skip from one interval to another as on the keyboard itself, while with the Bubble Piano he strikes one key after another in regular succession.