The following works have been consulted for the present volume:—

Dr Parry—'The Art of Music.'
Sir George Grove—'Dictionary of Music and Musicians,'
particularly Mr Fuller-Maitland's article
on DvorÁk.
'Life of Chopin,' by Liszt.
'Life and Letters of Chopin,' by Moritz Karasowski.
'Life of Chopin,' by Professor Niecks.
'Chopin,' by Charles Willeby.
'Chopin and other Essays,' by Henry T. Finck.
'Les trois Romans de Chopin,' by Count Wodzinski.
'Musical Studies,' by Dr Hueffer.
George Sand—'Histoire de ma vie.'
George Sand—'Correspondance.'
George Sand—'Un Hiver À Majorque.'
George Sand—'Lucrezia Floriani.'
George Sand—'Elle et Lui.'
P. de Musset—'Lui et Elle.'
'George Sand,' by E. Caro.
'George Sand,' by Bertha Thomas.
'George Sand,' by Matthew Arnold.[1]
Sainte Beuve—'Portraits Contemporains.'

Delacroix—'Lettres.'
Heine—'Lutetia.'
Henry James—'French Poets and Novelists.'
E. Zola—'Documents Litteraires.'
'Journal des Goncourt.'
'Une Contemporaine,' by M. Brault.
'Antonin DvorÁk,' by Dr Zubaty.
'Antonin DvorÁk,' by H. E. Krehbiel. (Century, Sept. 1892.)
'Antonin DvorÁk,' by J. J. Kral. (Music; Chicago; Oct. 1893.)
'Antonin DvorÁk,' by Dr Stecker. (New Bohemian EncyclopÆdia.)
E. Chvala—'Ein Vierteljahrhundert BÖhmischer Musik.'
'Johannes Brahms,' by Dr Deiters.
'Johannes Brahms,' by Bernhard Vogel.
'Johannes Brahms in seinen Werken,' by E. Krause.
J. A. Fuller-Maitland—'Masters of German Music.'
Dr Spitta—'Zur Musik.'
Dr Ehrlich—'Dreissig Jahre KÜnstlerleben.'

The writer wishes to express his most cordial thanks to Mr E. W. Hennell, for permission to use the two portraits of Chopin; to Herr E. Mandyczewski, Librarian of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at Vienna, for assistance in the study of newspaper records and other documents; to Messrs Mourek Naprstek, and Zubaty, for aid and advice in the Libraries at Prague; and to M. Subert, Director of the Czech National Theatre, for permission to consult, in its Library, the scores of DvorÁk's Operas.