27 OCTOBER 1967, page 16

Kindled To Music

CHARLES REID George Frideric Handel Paul Henry Lang (Faber 5gns) The Skein of Legends Around Chopin Adam Harasowski (William Maclellan 84s) Since music 'can't be put into words......

Festschrift

J. H. PLUMB In the last ten years, the Festschrift has be- come an established English institution— sooner or later, it would seem, every historian of distinction is acclaimed......