| + | Outlook. 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w. |
Evans, Edwin. Tchaikovsky. (Master musicians.) $1.25. Dutton.
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The part of this work is devoted to the composer as a man is based upon the biography of the Tchaikovsky published with his letters by his brother Modest. The greater portion of the study is devoted to a critical survey of the musician and his works including an estimate of the relative values of his operas. “A valuable feature of Mr. Evans’s book is a chronological table of Tchaikovsky’s compositions.” (Nation.)
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| + − | Nation. 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 250w. |
“Of the man and his work the book presents a useful summary treatment, though it rarely rises to a very high order of criticism.” Richard Aldrich.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 600w. |
Evelyn, John. [Diary of John Evelyn]; ed. with notes by Austin Dobson. 3v. *$8. Macmillan.
The bicentenary of John Evelyn’s death has served to produce some good reprints of his diary. This one edited by Mr. Dobson contains an informing biographical introduction and helpful notes. “Its long chronicle extends over an unbroken period of more than sixty years, dating from the stormy days which preceded the Commonwealth to the early time of Queen Anne. During all this age—‘an age,’ as his epitaph puts it, ‘of extraordinary events and revolutions’—Evelyn was quietly, briefly, methodically noting what seemed to him worthy of remembrance. His desire for knowledge was insatiable, his sympathies wide, and his tastes catholic.”