08-at the shrine of st. wagner

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    AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNERBayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891It was at Nuremberg that we struck the inundation of music-mad strangers that was rolling down upon Bayreuth. It had beenlong since we had seen such multitudes of excited and strugglingpeople. It took a good half-hour to pack them and pair them intothe trainand it was the longest train we have yet seen inEurope. Nuremberg had been witnessing this sort of experience acouple of times a day for about two weeks. It gives one animpressive sense of the magnitude of this biennial pilgrimage.For a pilgrimage is what it is. The devotees come from the veryends of the earth to worship their prophet in his own Kaaba inhis own Mecca.If you are living in New York or San Francisco or Chicago oranywhere else in America, and you conclude, by the middle of May,...