The Lady with the Dagger Author:Arthur Schnitzler Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: listening. For an instant she lifts her arms to the sky, as a curse, as a threat, desperate. Then she loosens her beautiful blonde hair, looks at the dark Ionian... more », and throws herself over. "O, mother dear, what was Santa Maura called in ancient Greek?" —"Leucade"— —"The Leucade of Sapho, mother?" —"The Leucade of Sapho." She bowed her head and thought. I was silent. The Gods of Greece are dead. The temple of Apollo is fallen in Leucade; the story of Sapho seems a fable. But the myth of love survives, eternal, implacable and smiling. EL MISERERE By Becczner Translated from the Spanish by Alice Gray Cowan SOME years since while visiting the celebrated Abbey of Fitero I busied myself in searching through its sadly neglected library. In a remote corner I discovered several very ancient books of manuscript music buried deep in the dust and somewhat mutilated by the rats—which upon examination proved to be a Miserere. The first thing that attracted my attention was that although the word finis was written at the end of the composition it was not finished but ended at the tenth verse of the psalm. I was also surprised to see that instead of the Italian words commonly used such as maestoso, allegro, pin vivo, a-pia- cere, there were lines written in very small German text some of which explained things that were difficult to do like the following "Crack—Crack the bones and from the marrow must the cries come forth." "The chord is melo chapter{Section 4dioiis, the quality of the voice is loud, but not deafening, for this reason all is sounding, there is no confusion, it is only humanity that sobs and groans." The most original note of all was written after the last verse. "The notes are bones covered with flesh," "Unquenchable light—the sky and its harmony—str...« less