In our big, young country of America there are the possibilities of many another singer greater than I have been. I shall be proud and grateful if the story of my high ambitions, hard work, and kindly treatment should chance to encourage one of these. For, while it is true that there is nothing that should be chosen less lightly than an artistic career, it is also true that, having chosen it, there is nothing too great to be given up for it. I have no other message to give; no further lesson to teach. I have lived and sung, and, in these memories, have tried to tell something of the living and the singing: but when I seek for a salient and moving word as a last one, I find that I am dumb. Yet I feel as I used to feel when I sang before a large audience. Somewhere out in the audience of the world there must be those who are in instinctive sympathy with me. My thoughts go wandering toward them as, long ago, my thoughts would wander toward the unknown friends sitting before me in the theatre and listening. So poignant is this sense within me that, halting as my message may have been, I feel quite sure that somehow, here and there, some one will hear it, responsive in the heart. INDEX Abbott, Emma, in _Camille_, 70; meeting with, 272-275; 320 Academy of Music, the, _début_ of Kellogg at, 33; stage conditions at, 37; director of, 40; winter season at, 91; benefit at, 92; return to, 201; 258, 259, 263 Adam, Mme., 304 Adamowski, Timothie, 358 Adams, Charles, 298 Adams, Maud, in _Joan of Arc_, 66 Aïda, 292, 301, 302, 307 Albani, Mme., 235 Albertini, 294 Albites, suggestion of, 102 Alboni, Mme., Rovere and, 94; anecdote of, 175 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 47, 48 Alexander, John, 281 Amina, the _rôle_ of, 64; the opera of, 65; Murska as, 296 Amodio, 13; personal appearance of, 14; in _Don Giovanni_, 74 Amonasro, 307 Andrede, Joseph, 300 Annetta, 91; contrast between Marguerite and, 93; Malibran as, 94; Grisi as, 94; Kellogg as, 93, 94, 96 Anschutz, _Faust_ and, 78 Appleton, Tom, 46, 47 Arditi, 135, 138, 162-164, 168, 171, 173 Armitage, Sir George, 195-198 Association, Peace Jubilee, 235 Azucena, 249 Babcock, William, 7 Bachert, Pond and, 358 Balfe, 261, 262 _Ballo in Maschera_, 55, 62, 329, 338 Banjo, first mention of, 8; music of, 9; old man and the, 217, 218; accompaniment of, 358 _Barbiere, Il_, realistic performance of, 38; 56, 91, 97, 167, 277 Barbizon School, 306 Barlow, Judge Peter, 102 Barlow, Mrs. Samuel, 276-279 Bateman concerts, 101 Beecher, Henry Ward, 214 Beethoven, 78; Jubilee, 209; Okakura and music of, 219; reference to, 366 Behrens, Siegfried, 263, 264, 267 Bellini, 54; traditions of, 67; music of, 80 Benedict, Sir Jules, 6, 197, 261, 262 Bennett, James Gordon, 251, 303 Bennett, Mr., 164, 174, 238 Bentinck, Mrs. Cavendish, 190 Bernhardt, 208 _Beware_, Longfellow and, 46; singing of, 175, 178, 197 Bey, Khalil, 156, 157