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. 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, Grieg, Mackenzie, Villiers Stanford, etc., etc.
“To musical amateurs this will certainly prove the most attractive birthday book ever published.”—Manchester Guardian.
“One of those happy ideas that seems to have been yearning for fulfilment.... The book ought to have a place on every music stand.”—Scottish Leader.
London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The detailed analysis of the elements which women, by the facts of their constitution, must bring to the organization of life, cannot be entered into in this volume. I hope to deal with it in part elsewhere.
[2] The handsome edition of Diderot’s “Œuvres” in some twenty volumes, edited by Assézat and Tourneux, contains nearly a fourth of previously unpublished material, much of considerable interest. The centenaire edition of his “Œuvres Choisies,” comprised in one moderate-sized volume, includes all that most people need read of Diderot’s works, and is, on the whole, a most varied and judicious selection, made by such competent editors as Letourneau, Lefèvre, Guyot, Véron, &c. Mr. Morley’s well-known work on Diderot and the Encyclopædists has done more than anything else to create an intelligent English interest in the matter.