r JOSEF HOLBROOKE AND HIS WORK." ITo THE EDITOR or
rue " SPEC-111'01.") Ste.,—I should very much like you to contradict three asser- tions made in the book published on my work, some of which your reviewer mentions. The first is that I am no admirer of Shakespeare; the second is I do not respond to John Sebastian Bach; and the third is that I am a "great admirer" of "E Newman," the journalist. In each of these statements the exact reverse is the easel I did not write the book, how-
ever, neither did I dictate its contents. I believe this is usually the case. As the book was written about ten years ago, it is to me a little out of date, like my music. I am some- what mystified by the Press opinions of my music, seeing that nothing " new " from my pen has been heard in London for about ten years, and will not be heard unless it is paid for. There is too much music "given away" in England.—I am,
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