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Art

The Romantic Movement By SIMON HODGSON THE POET GRAY, in a coach passing through the hills of the border country, drew the window curtains to shut out the savagery of the......

Opera

The Life-evaders By DAVID CAIRNS Fidelio—there is a force about it which for a time effaces the thought of all other music and which, to anyone who has come to know it well,......