CONTENTS -- PRELUDE: The New World Beckons -- PART ONE: Leopold de Meyer (1845-47) -- CHAPTER 1 The Lion Stalks America -- CHAPTER 2 De Meyer in the South and Midwest -- CHAPTER 3 The Lion Tamed -- PART TWO: Henri Herz (1846-50) -- CHAPTER 4 A Refined Parisian Pianist -- CHAPTER 5 With Sivori and Knoop -- CHAPTER 6 French Pianos, Italian Opera, and California Gold -- INTERLUDE I -- PART THREE: Sigismund Thalberg (1856-58) -- CHAPTER 7 A Rival of Liszt -- CHAPTER 8 At the Matinées -- CHAPTER 9 Henry Vieuxtemps and a Troubled Season -- INTERLUDE II -- PART FOUR: Anton Rubinstein (1872-73) -- CHAPTER 10 "The Shaggy Maestro" -- CHAPTER 11 Wieniawski -- CHAPTER 12 Rubinstein's "Magnificent Faultiness" -- CHAPTER 13 Joint Venture with Theodore Thomas -- PART FIVE: Hans von Bülow (1875-76) -- CHAPTER 14 Escape to the New World -- CHAPTER 15 "Unfortunately . . . He Also Talks" -- CHAPTER 16 The Midwest and Back -- POSTLUDE -- APPENDIX A: Itineraries -- APPENDIX B: Rubinstein's and Bülow's Repertoire in America -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.