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Mathematics, Imitation, And Music

Beethoven. By Paul Bekker. Translated by M. M. Bozman. (Dent. 10s. 6d.) Beethoven's Letters.- Selected by A. Eaglefield-Bull. Trans- lated by J. S. Shedlock. (Dent. -10s. 6d.)......

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LIFE, to William Cobbett, was a crusade. He loved the noise of battle ; his was the large imagination that glories in the symbol and the coloured gesture ; and the Holy Land to......