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Eccentrics

Their Ruling Passions By Percy Colson. Foreword by James Laver. (Hutchinson. 18s.) MR. RICI-LARD ALDINGTON gives a good definition of eccentricity as " the comedy-farce of......

Irish Temperament

The Loud Red Patrick. Ruth McKenney. (Rupert Hart Davis. 6s.) Miss Runt MCKENNEY has written a hook which cannot fail to amuse anybody who has a taste for the Irish'......

Musical Appreciation

The Orchestra. By Adam Carsc. Opera Comique. By Martin Cooper. (Max Parrish. 7s. 6d. each.) SINCE the war there has been no lack of so-called educational books on musical......