Balzac, 43, 50, 55, 56, 57, 63, 76, 86, 187, 225 Banti, Brigitta, 93, 164 Bara, Theda, 80 Barnabee, Henry Clay, 221 Barnet, R. A., 216 Barrison, Mabel, 219 Barry, Mme. du, 260 Bassoonists, 157 Bataille, Henry, 228, 230, 232 Bates, Katherine Lee, 38 Battistini, 102 Baudelaire, Charles, 43, 52, 131 Baumgarten, C. F., 171 Bayes, Nora, 110 Beardsley, Aubrey, 45 Becque, Henry, 230 Beerbohm, Max, 45, 50, 177, 238 Beethoven, 24, 27, 28, 32, 98, 150, 151, 170, 175, 200, 219, 298, 300 Begue, Bernard, 156 Belasco, David, 294 Bel canto, 97, 101, 105 Belford's Magazine, 37 Bell, Digby, 222 Bellini, Vincenzo, 24, 25, 77, 79, 97, 100, 101, 114, 175, 248, 267, 270, 273 Bel-Marduk, 82 Bergstrom, Hjalmar, 90 Berlin, Irving, 25, 222, 234 Berlioz, Hector, 27, 104 Bernacchi, Antonio, 99 Bernhardt, Sarah, 106, 222, 227, 245, 295, 297, 302 Bernstein, Henry, 228, 230, 232, 302 Bible, The, 67 Bichara, 15 Bilbao, 287 Billington, Mrs., 172 Bizet, Georges, 108, 113, 275 Blanche, Jacques, 183, 184 Blei, Franz, 69, 78, 259 Bocklin, Arnold, 89 Bonci, Alessandro, 102 Booth, Edwin, 111, 302, 305 Bouguereau, 61, 293 Bourget, Paul, 76 Boyden, Frank L., 203 Boynton, Henry Walcott, 38 Brahma, 82 Brahms, 25, 274 Brann-Brini, Mlle., 164 Branscombe, Gena, 200, 202 Brenon, Algernon St. John, 162 Breton, Tomas, 113 Brian, Donald, 217 Brice, Fannie, 110 Brieux, 230 Brignoli, Pasquale, 155 Broadhurst, George, 302 Bromley, Eliza, 74 Brothers of the Book, 85 Browning, Robert, 307 Bunn, Alfred, 165 Burke, Billie, 295 Burney, Dr., 258 Butler, Samuel, 21 Byzance, 80 Cabanel, 61 Caesar, Julius, 69 Caffarelli, 95, 96, 112 Cahill, Marie, 110 Cairns, William B., 38 Caligula, 51, 69, 79 Calve, Emma, 106, 275 Camargo, 258, 259 Campanari, Giuseppe, 161, 162 Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 299 Caracalla, 79 Carestini, Giovanni, 95, 96 Carmencita, 285 Carnegie Hall, 25 Carre, Albert, 133 Carreno, Teresa, 153 Caruso, Enrico, 272 Cassive, Armande, 232 Catalani, Angelica, 93, 265 _et seq._ Cato, 69 Cats, 59, 69, 77, 102, 127, 131, 132, 233, 258, 259, 298 Cavalazzi, Malvina, 310 Cesare Borgia, 79 Cezanne, 301 Chabrier, Emmanuel, 285 Chadwick, George W., 197, 199, 212 Chambers, Robert W., 290 Chaliapine, Feodor, 114, 155 Charpentier, Gustave, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 173 Cherubini, 98 Cherubino's question, 54 Chinese plays, 103 Chopin, 23, 26, 55, 112, 239, 240, 301, 310 Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 98, 169, 247, 249, 261 Christ, 58, 67, 185, 191, 192 Christianity, 57, 68, 82, 83 Christy, Howard Chandler, 293 Churchill, Lady Randolph, 185 Cimarosa, Domenico, 255 Cinderella, 137 Cicisbeism, 82 Clairon, 96, 260, 302 Classical music, 23 Claudius, 69 Cleopatra, 82 Cline, Maggie, 107 Coerne, L. A., 199, 202 Cohan, George M., 288 Colles, Ramsay, 39 Colonne Orchestra, 310 Coloratura singing, 103, 104 Columbia University, 43 Comstock, Anthony, 59 Condamine, Robert de la, 183 Congreve, 303