Hervey, Arthur. Alfred Bruneau. (Living masters of music ser.) *$1. Lane.
7–29175.
An impartial study of the artist and his work which includes his conservatory days, his work for the musical drama, and his relations with Zola who was a faithful companion and whose stout ally Bruneau became during the Zola trial.
“Those who are interested in French musical developments will be glad to have it.”
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| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w. |
Herzfeld, Elsa Goldina. Family monographs. For sale by Brentano’s and Charity organization soc., N. Y.
6–1551.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The generalizations in the first fifty pages are, to the extent that they are generalizations, open to criticism. But taken as an assemblage of related incidents, instead of statements of general truths, they are interesting and valuable. Apparently no effort was made to discriminate between characteristics and beliefs peculiar to tenement-house families and those that are to be found in all economic grades, between conditions which merely impress an observer unaccustomed to life among the poor as exceptional to the neighborhood and those which really are exceptional.”