Drummond, Henry. [Natural law in the spiritual world.] 35c. Crowell.
A reprint uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
Dry, Wakeling. [Giacomo Puccini.] (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
7–14600.
The man and his history are sketched as fully as is possible in the case of a “living master.” The author offers an analysis of Puccini’s operas down to and including “Madame Butterfly.” There are portraits of the composer, views of his various dwelling places and facsimiles of his musical autographs.
“Personal intercourse with the composer has enabled the writer to give point and life to his narration of certain events in the life of Puccini.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 130w. |
“A biographer should, of course, be sympathetic to his subject, but critical insight would make the book more helpful to those who have not arrived at his standpoint. This attitude and the fact that it is evidently very hastily written—a haste which too often shows itself in the use of slipshod English and badly corrected proof-sheets—make the first chapters, which are biographical and include some personal reminiscences, the most interesting reading.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 378. N. 9, ’06. 580w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 670w. |