Page:Selected letters of Mendelssohn 1894.djvu/108

94 What’s Hecuba to me, or criticism besides, the printed sort I mean? So if an overture to “Lord Eldon” in the form of a reversible canon should happen to occur to me, or a double fugue with a canto fermo, I will write them, though they would be sure to be unpopular. Still more a beautiful Melusine, though that is another matter. It would be horrible if one could never get a chance of having one’s things performed; still, as you think that there is no reason to fear it, I say long live the public and the critics, only I mean to live myself, and, if possible, come to England next year……