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Mozart And The Stage

Mozart's Operas. By Edward J. Dent. (Oxford University Press. 16s.) PROFESSOR DENT'S preface to the revised edition of his best-known book contains one surprising piece of......

Legendary Medicine

Magic and Healing. By C. J. S. Thompson. (Rider. 15s.) THERE have been many definitions of magic, and Mr. Thompson, in the first paragraph. of his most interesting and scholarly......

A Home County

Surrey. By Eric Parker. (Hale. 15s.) AN established author, buttonholed by the editor of a series of county books and charged with writing one on Surrey (Suth, south, plus rice,......