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Excerpt from The Romantic Ballet in London The history of ballet in London even of the Romantic Ballet there still waits to be written. It is being written by degrees; a little here, a little there. In time it will be possible for someone to undertake it as a whole. But such a task demands an enormous amount of dusty and persevering re search before even so much as the source materials vital to it will have been, first, assembled, then assorted and edited, and, finally assayed. Any formal study of the subject that could hope to stand as definitive, asks a hefty tome, but a volume entirely worth the candle. There is not, to our knowledge, a single essay devoted to the past history of ballet in London as specifically a subject in its own right. What litera ture there is belongs to studies of international scope. These lift incidents from London's annals out of their immediate context and set them amidst quite a different one. Only frustration rewards any one who 'should seek to reconstitute from those odds and ends, however signal in themselves, any over-all picture of the London scene. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.