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THE MARKET PLACE IN NUREMBURG
EVERYCHILD'S SERIES
GREAT OPERA STORIES
TAKEN FROM
ORIGINAL SOURCES IN OLD GERMAN
BY
MILLICENT S. BENDER
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 |
| Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight | 156 |
GREAT OPERA STORIES
CHILDREN OF KINGS
I
Once upon a time, in a lonely glade between high mountains far, farabove the World of Men, there stood a hut. It was a miserable,tumbledown, little hut, and the mosses of many summers clung to itssloping roof. It had a bent stovepipe where its chimney should havebeen, a sla