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Italian Opera Concentrated

Italian Opera. By Francis Toye. (Max Parrish. 8s. 6d.) THE " World of Music" series, of which this is the latest volume. has made formidable demands for compression on some of......

Irish Authoresses

LADIES are rarely known in polite society by their surnames except when they appear in the dock. But more than a generation ago the combined name of Somerville and Ross was so......

• Fiction

THE first three books are all different varieties of the popular novel, curiously linked to each other. Far and away the best of the three is Campbell's Kingdom, a roistering......