Walker, Ernest. Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s.
The third volume in “The music of the masters” series is a Beethoven handbook which gives a sketch, with suggestive motives, of his principal compositions, including choral music, vocal music, stage music, orchestral works, solo instrument music, chamber music, and piano-forte music. The closing chapter gives a composite view of his music as a whole, showing both his creative genius and reflected qualities.
“The author has confined himself to criticism which is often of a very striking and suggestive kind.”
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“On the whole one must admit him to be a sane and safe guide and suggestive withal.”
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“On the whole, Mr. Walker’s analyses and discussions are enlightened and sympathetic.”
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Wallace, Alfred Russel. My life: a record of events and opinion. [*]$6. Dodd.
“No one would guess this to be the work of an octogenarian.... There is no sign of diminished vigour, whether in the earlier part, which is written almost entirely from memory, or in the latter, which is largely devoted to a trenchant defence of socialism, spiritualism, and other darling fads of his old age. The book may be divided into four sections, which will doubtless appeal with varying force to different readers. First we have boyhood and adolescence—the student; then the famous expeditions to South America and the Malay archipelago—the naturalist and collector; thirdly, the scientific and literary work at home, the intercourse and correspondence with eminent contemporaries—the evolutionist; lastly, the struggle with economic problems of modern life—the socialist and reformer.”—Lond. Times.