2 JANUARY 1909, page 25

Music.

SIR EDWARD ELGA R'S SYMPHONY, A NUMBER of circumstances combined to lend peculiar signifi- cance and interest to the production of Sir Edward Elgar's symphony. To begin with,......

Books.

THE POETRY OF ISAIA.H.* THREE great poetical books—the Book of Job, the Psalms, and the Book of the Prophet Isaiah—are the glory of Hebrew 'literature. No,. other race can set......