The Music of the Poets:
A MUSICIANS’ BIRTHDAY BOOK.
Edited by Eleonore D’Esterre Keeling.
This is a unique Birthday Book. Against each date are given the names of musicians whose birthday it is, together with a verse-quotation appropriate to the character of their different compositions or performances. A special feature of the book consists in the reproduction in fac-simile of autographs, and autographic music, of living composers. The selections of verse (from before Chaucer to the present time) have been made with admirable critical insight. English verse is rich in utterances of the poets about music, and merely as a volume of poetry about music this book makes a charming anthology. Three sonnets by Mr. Theodore Watts, on the “Fausts” of Berlioz, Schumann, and Gounod, have been written specially for this volume. It is illustrated with designs of various musical instruments, etc.; autographs of Rubenstein, Dvorâk, Greig, Mackenzie, Villiers Stanford, etc., etc.
“To musical amateurs this will certainly prove the most attractive birthday book ever published.”—Manchester Guardian.
LONDON: Walter Scott, Ltd., Paternoster Square.
ATTRACTING GREAT ATTENTION.
A NEW SOCIETY NOVEL.
Foolscap 8vo, in Elegant Paper Cover, 1s. 6d.; cloth, 2s.
TWO WOMEN
AND A MAN:
A SOCIETY SKETCH OF TO-DAY.
By Ellam Fenwicke-Allan
(Mrs. Charlton-Anne).
“We are here introduced to those naughty, naughty society women who smoke cigarettes after dinner, break the bulk of the decalogue, and say sweetly-spiteful things to each other while waiting for the men to appear. These, however, are by the way. The story really has for its theme the struggle for the soul of Paul Fane between his wife and a very seductive bad lot called Lady Maud, the wife of a very wealthy and sterling man who never saw further than his nose. Lady Maud is about the most finished study of a female devil we have ever come across, with powers of hypocrisy passing belief, and audacity in keeping with her hypocrisy. Mrs. Fane is her antithesis, and it is only in keeping with poetical justice that the good influence should overrule the bad; besides, Paul was not nearly such a fool as he looked, though it was touch-and-go with him once. If rather abrupt in places and somewhat saddening reading, there is plenty of go about the tale, and if the whole construction is somewhat light, much is atoned for by the two splendidly contrasted characters of Lady Maud and Mrs. Fane.”—Glasgow Daily Mail.