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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9178, 6 October 1888, Page 4 (Supplement)

* # * All communications ilitended for tins column should be addressed " Musico-Dramaticus, 1 HEUald Lidice, Auckland, and should be forwarded as early as possible. _____

The grave of Richard Wagner at Bay.reuth is said to be in a shocking state of neglect. It lies in the park behind the late composer's house, " Wahnfried." A musician, who was at Bay re nth during the late performances, relates that lie was seeking for the grave, when he met with two men walking slowly up and down. On inquiring where the grave was they pointed (0 a little gate ; and on entering the enclosure he was struck dumb with sorrow and surprise at finding the marble monument half buried in weeds, and only scanty ivy growing over the grave. In " A Letter to a Young Gentleman who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art," •which Robert Louis Stevenson will contribute to Scribner's for September, he says : —>' If you adopt an art to be your trade, weed your mind at the outset of all desire for money. What you may decently expect if you have some talent and much industry is such an income as a clerk will earn with a tenth or perhaps a twentieth of your nervous output. Nor have you the tight to look for more ; in the wages of the life, no; in the wages of the trade, lies your jreward; the work is here the wages."