JENNY LIND 138 MANUEL GARCIA 200 From a Drawing by Mme. Viardot. CHARLES SANTLEY 216 ANTOINETTE STERLING 220 CHARLES HALLÉ AND MANUEL GARCIA 222 From a Drawing by Richard Doyle. HERMANN KLEIN 238 MADAME MELBA 268 FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN BY MANUEL GARCIA AT 91 278 FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN AT 99 294 FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN AT 94 296 FACSIMILE PAGE OF MUSIC WRITTEN IN HIS HUNDREDTH YEAR 312 FACSIMILE LETTER WRITTEN IN HIS HUNDRED-AND-SECOND YEAR 322 LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED. 'Albion.' (An American weekly newspaper published from 1823-1826.) Appleton's 'Cyclopedia of American Biography.' 'Athenæum' (1848). Brewer's 'History of France.' Burney's 'History of Music' (1776-1789). Colletta's 'History of Naples' (1734-1825). Horner's translation. 'Diversions of a Music Lover.' By C. L. Graves. Eitner's 'Quellen Lexikon.' Elson's 'History of American Music.' Fétis' 'Biographie Universelle des Musiciens.' 'Fitz-Greene Halleck's Memoirs.' By General James Grant Wilson. Fuller-Maitland's revised edition of Grove's 'Dictionary of Music.' 'Harmonicon' Musical Magazine (1823-1833). Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates.' 'Jenny Lind's Memoirs.' By Holland and Rockstro. 'Le Guide Musical.' 'Londina Illustrata.' By Wilkinson. (1819-1825.) 'Madrid.' By a Resident Officer. (1833.) Mapleson's 'Memoirs.' 'Marchesi and Music.' Mendel's 'Musikalisches Conversations Lexikon.' 'Mexico.' By Maria Wright. Morse-Stephens's 'European Revolution.' 'Musical Reminiscences of Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe' (1824). 'Paris.' By G. L. Craik. (1834). 'Recollections.' By Bessie Palmer. Sir Felix Semon's 'Zum hundertsten Geburstage Manuel Garcia's.' (Privately printed.) 'Sixty Years of Recollections.' By Ernest Legouvé. 'Student and Singer.' By Sir Charles Santley. 'Thirty Years of Musical Life.' By Hermann Klein. Wyndham's 'History of Covent Garden.' FIRST PERIOD PREPARATION (1805-1830) CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. MANUEL GARCIA, the Centenarian. How much do those words imply!--words which it is impossible to pen without a feeling of awe.