Changes to the text have been limited to typographical errors only and are listed as follows:
Page 9: changed "Bryd" to "Byrd" (Of Byrd we have written.)
Page 45: changed "harpischord" to "harpsichord" (... harpsichord and organ music, ...)
Page 58: changed comma to sentence-final period (... the great, but not too amiable, Mr. William Byrd.)
Page 67: changed "Calvanistic" to "Calvinistic" (—Effect of Calvinistic teaching—)
Page 70: changed "Calvanistic" to "Calvinistic" (... in those early Calvinistic times ...)
Page 72: changed "Calvanist" to "Calvinist" (... the constant influx of Calvinist refugees ...)
Page 72: changed "Calvanist" to "Calvinist" (... the spread of Calvinism ...)
Page 87: changed "eminates" to "emanates" (... the country from which it emanates ...)
Page 105: changed "fanatacism" to "fanaticism" (... a period if of less fanaticism, a not less fatal indifference ...)
Page 106: changed "unforgetable" to "unforgettable" (... words at once typical of him, and unforgettable.)
Page 108: changed "continously" to "continuously" (... the influence of the Court continuously exercised ...)
Page 120: changed two instances of "Reszké" to "Reszke" (... Jean de Reszke, Charles Santley and Edouard de Reszke.)
Page 169: changed "Protestanism" to "Protestantism" (... the feelings and aspirations of German Protestantism.)
Page 176: changed "Ondin" to "Oudin" (—"Ivanhoe"—Eugène Oudin—)
Page 188: changed "chose" to "choose" (... and I will choose the one that was, ...)
Page 196: changed "bann" to "ban" (... others would ban such operas altogether, ...)
Page 216: changed "Halle's" to "Hallé's" (... Ludwig and Waldemar Neruda, Lady Hallé's sons, ...)
Page 222: suspected typographical error "sane" may have been intended to read "same" (... I should think that same conservatism, would fairly express his attitude ...)
Page 243: added missing opening quotation mark (He renamed it "Rudd-i-gore.")
Page 251: changed "gradua-ally", where hypenated across lines, to "gradually" (... how absolutely indifferent the public have gradually become ...)
Page 270: changed "Eugene" to "Eugène" (Oudin, Eugène 191)
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