20–3902
“The book is, as described in its sub-title, a popular account of the production of a number of common commodities. It collects a mass of miscellaneous information about wheat and other cereals, tea, coffee and cocoa, rubber, tobacco, cotton, silk, wool, timber, paper, fruit and wine, cattle and leather, vegetable and mineral oils, furs and feathers, precious stones and metals.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Informative and of varying interest. Could be used by upper grades and high schools.”
+ Booklist 17:55 N ’20 Brooklyn 12:126 My ’20 20w R of Rs 62:448 O ’20 30w + − The Times [London] Lit Sup p748 D 11 ’19 150w
NEWMAN, ERNEST. Musical motley. *$1.50 Lane 780.4
20–1630
A series of papers by an English musical critic. Among the titles are: “L’enfant prodigue”; On instruments and their players; On musical surgery; Criticism by code; Futurist music; The best hundred scores.
“Mr Newman is a musician of the nineteenth century. This must not be taken to mean that he is an old-fashioned pedant who is out of touch with new developments. On the contrary, he is intensely interested in modern music and has no sentimental illusions about that of the past. Music is for him always a thing of the living present.” E: J. Dent