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In selecting a few of the operas every child should know, the editor's greatest difficulty is in determining what to leave out.
The wish to include L'Africaine, Othello, Lucia, Don Pasquale, Mignon, Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Rienzi, Tannhaeuser, Romeo and Juliet, Parsifal, Freischuetz, and a hundred others makes one impatient of limitations.