The attempt has been made in the following to give an idea of the charm and interest of the original text of the Wagner operas, of Wagner's extraordinary power and fertility as a dramatist. It is not critique or commentary, it is presentation, picture, narrative; it offers nothing that is not derived directly and exclusively from the Wagner libretti and scores. CONTENTS -- PARSIFAL -- THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG -- THE RHINE-GOLD -- THE VALKYRIE -- SIEGFRIED -- THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS -- THE MASTER-SINGERS OF NUREMBERG -- TRISTAN AND ISOLDE -- LOHENGRIN -- TANNHAEUSER -- THE FLYING DUTCHMA