_Katalog der mit der Beethoven--Feier zu Bonn, an II.--15 Mai, 1890, verbundenen Ausstellung von Handschriften, Briefen, Bildnissen, Reliquien Ludwig van Beethovens._ Bonn, 1890. LA MARA.--_Musikerbriefe aus fünf Jahrhunderten._ Leipzig, 1892. DR. A. CHRISTIAN KALISCHER.--_Neue Beethoven, Briefe_. Berlin and Leipzig, 1902. DR. A. CHRISTIAN KALISCHER.--_Beethovens Sämmtliche Briefe._ Kritische Ausgabe mit Erläuterungen, 5 vol. Leipzig and Berlin, 1906-1908. DR. FRITZ PRELINGER.--_Beethovens Sämmtliche Briefe und Aufzeichnungen_, 3 vols. Vienna and Leipzig, 1907. By far the most useful books for the English reader, and, indeed, for any reader, are the two splendid volumes of _Beethoven's Letters_. A critical edition with explanatory notes translated from Kalischer by J. S. Shedlock. (London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909). The translation of the letters contained in this present volume have been taken from that work by kind permission of the author and the publishers. A good selection from these letters, issued in one volume at a moderate price, would be a great boon to English readers. II.--FOR BEETHOVEN'S LIFE. GOTTFRIED FISCHER.--_Manuscrit_ (especially interesting for the childhood of Beethoven). Fischer, who died in 1864, was the owner of the house where the Beethoven family lived for two generations. He and his sister Cecilia knew Beethoven as a boy intimately, and have recorded their remembrances of him, which are very valuable, on condition that they are used with some criticism. The manuscript is in the Beethovenhaus at Bonn. Deiters (see below) has published some extracts from them. F. G. WEGELER and FERDINAND REIS.--_Biographie Notizen über Ludwig van Beethoven_ (especially valuable for the first part of his life), Coblentz. 1838. Re-issued by Dr. Kalischer in 1905. LUDWIG NOHL.--_Eine stille Liebe zu Beethoven._ Berlin, 1857. (A publication of the Journal of Mlle. Fanny Giannatasio del Rio, who knew and loved Beethoven about 1816). ANTON SCHINDLER.--_Beethovens Biographie._ 1840. (For the second part of his life). ANTON SCHINDLER.--_Beethoven in Paris, Münster_, 1842. GERHARD VON BREUNING.--_Aus dem Schwarzspanierhause_, 1874. (The Schwarzspanierhaus was the house in Vienna in which Beethoven died. It was pulled down during the winter of 1903). MOSCHELES.--_The Life of Beethoven_, London, 2 vols. 1841. ALEXANDER WHEELOCK THAYER, and continued by HERMANN DEITERS, and later by HUGO REIMANN.--_Ludwig von Beethovens Leben_ (Translated into English), 5 vols., 1908. This biography was commenced in 1866, but was interrupted by the death of the author in 1897 at Trieste where he was the American Consul. The work stood still till 1816, when Deiters undertook to finish it; but he died in 1907 before he had published the second volume. Riemann finished the work from the materials left by Deiters. It is by far the most important work on Beethoven.