4 DECEMBER 1926, Page 32

Essays on Music

Pastiche : a Music-room Book. By Yvonne Cloud. With Tins is a beautifully produced book, of which only an edition ,limited to 750 copies is for sale. Miss,. Cloud's text consists of a number of essays on music written in varying styles and attributed _ to diverse dates. Countenances, for example, is " From the French of Theodore de Vallon (1590-1652) by Clement Godwin. London. 1853:' There is a passage from " The History of a Fool; by George Finlay. London. 1746." ; while there is also an extract from " Esmee Egerton-Darte's " Stories of Everyday, 1913. These counterfeit authors are skilfully counterfeited, and Mr. Ilapp! chalk drawings, many of which are first-rate caricatures all have a definite aesthetic value, Some of them an beautiful.