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[Illustration: THE MARKET PLACE IN NUREMBURG]


Everychild's Series

GREAT OPERA STORIES

Taken from Original Sources in Old German

by

MILLICENT S. <DW12>

Illustrated







New York
The Macmillan Company
1935

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1912,
By the Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1912.
Reprinted March, 1913; June, 1915; January, September,
1916; November, 1917 July, 1931; November, 1935.

Printed in the United States of America




CONTENTS


                                        PAGE

  CHILDREN OF KINGS                        1

  HAENSEL AND GRETEL                      35

  THE MASTER SINGERS                      57

  LOHENGRIN, THE KNIGHT OF THE SWAN      101

  THE FLYING DUTCHMAN                    137

  TANNHAEUSER, THE MINSTREL KNIGHT       156




GREAT OPERA STORIES

[Illustration]




CHILDREN OF KINGS


I

Once upon a time, in a lonely glade between high mountains far, far
above the World of Men, there stood a hut. It was a miserable,
tumbledown, little hut, and the mosses of many summers clung to its
