The support of a publisher was necessary for the success of such a work, but Delsarte was his own publisher and he met with no success at all.

Similar but inferior publications have been markedly successful.
Delsarte aimed at purity of text, but his successors have been forced to modernize the works to make them accessible for the public.

This fact is painful.

In literature the texts are studied and the endeavor is to reproduce the writer's thought as closely as possible.

In music it is entirely different.