Chapter 19 THREE UNFAMILIAR WORKS.

WHEN Rossini was thirty-seven years of age he had written thirty-seven operas, without counting those enlarged editions of former works, "Mo?se" and "Le Siège de Corinthe." Of this number a good many are forgotten, many too were never known out of Italy at all. The best, and not merely the best, but the most typical, have remained. Admirable works,