It is to be regretted that the colored volunteers, especially those under Negro officers, did not have an opportunity to show their powers on the battlefield, and thus demonstrate their ability as soldiers, and so refreshing the memory of the nation as to what Negro soldiers once did at Ft. Wagner and Milikin's Bend.

Gretchen and Helena, Wagner and Mephisto, Homunculus and Euphorion, the Emperor's court and the shades of the Greek past, the broodings of medieval mysticism and the practical tasks of modern industrialism, the enlightened despotism of the eighteenth century and the ideal democracy of the futureall this and a great deal more enters into Faust's being.

His famulus Wagner, a type of the ardent and contented bookworm, comes in to get instruction on the art of public speaking, and Faust lays down the law to him.

Faust's former famulus, Dr. Wagner, has now become a world-renowned professor and is engaged in a great experiment, namely, in the production of a chemical man.

WAGNER, a Student.

[WAGNER in his dressing gown and night-cap, a lamp in his hand.

WAGNER The speaker in delivery, will find Success alone; I still am far behind.

WAGNER Oh God!

FAUST and WAGNER FAUST Loosed from their fetters are streams and rills Through the gracious spring-tide's all-quickening glow; Hope's budding joy in the vale doth blow; Old Winter back to the savage hills Withdraweth his force, decrepid now.

WAGNER Sir Doctor, in a walk with you There's honor and instruction too; Yet here alone I care not to resort, Because I coarseness hate of every sort.

[He proceeds with WAGNER.]

WAGNER What feelings, great man, must thy breast inspire, At homage paid thee by this crowd!

WAGNER Why let this thought your soul o'ercast? Can man do more than with nice skill, With firm and conscientious will, Practise the art transmitted from the past?

WAGNER To strange conceits oft I myself must own, But impulse such as this I ne'er have known Nor woods, nor fields, can long our thoughts engage; Their wings I envy not the feather'd kind; Far otherwise the pleasures of the mind Bear us from book to book, from page to page I

WAGNER I've mark'd him long,

WAGNER Naught but a poodle black of hue I see; 'Tis some illusion doth your sight deceive.

WAGNER Around us as in doubt I see him shyly bound, Since he two strangers seeth in his master's stead.

WAGNER A dog well taught E'en by the wisest of us may be sought.

Wagner, the new American consul, asked Billy how he managed it.

As an American minister had not yet been appointed, to the duties of the consul, as Wagner assured everybody, were added those of diplomacy.

[B] [Footnote B: Clauss Wagner, "Der Krieg als schaffendes Weltprinzip."

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Sidney Lear, now Mrs. Philip Wagner & Marian Mishler, now Mrs. Robert B. Neall (A); 9Jun54; R131619.

The authentic librettos of the Wagner operas.

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