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...period covered is of tremendous importance in the development of music in general, and of church music in particular. Moreover the book has a truly musical structure in that space is devoted more to the printing of the compositions themselves than to the discussion of them. The reader may not find the music very tuneful; he may be piqued not to find a favorite bit of Lassus included in the collection of reproductions. But considering that the number of Lassus's compositions has been estimated at 1250 and upwards, possible oversights of this kind can be accounted for. Beyond...
...SECOND COMMON READER-Virginia Woolf-Harcourt, Brace...
...Second Common Reader, a sequel to her first collection of critical essays, will appeal more to library-haunters than to débutantes, though anybody who likes good writing might enjoy them. In 26 brief, graceful, revealing essays Authoress Woolf conducts you on a tour of the minor masterpieces of English literature and their makers-from the great late Elizabethans to the late great Thomas Hardy. In her concluding paper ("How Should One Read a Book?") she drops a cogent hint to readers of whatever kind: "Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction...
Naturally enough The Friend, let us, Gentle Reader, simply call him The Friend, was anxious to see all that had been built in Cambridge since his day. The Vagabond was pleased. He enjoyed showing the New Harvard to his friends. He enjoyed showing them Eliot House and hearing them say that Professor Merriman hadn't changed. He enjoyed taking them through Widener and always entered into the innocent fun when they tried to get a book...
Authoress Lehmann, wise economist of effects, never gives you too much of anything, of some of her characters lets you have tantalizing glimpses that are not half enough. What she lets you see of young brother James, a glowering but attractive rebel, would make any reader call for more. In the silence of his crib James was given to versifying his wrongs. One scorcher...