31 AUGUST 1956, page 26

The Fabulous Phonograph. By Roland Gelatt. (cassell,...

to time as editor of The •Gramophone I used to make attempts to secure for serial publication a history of the machine or instrument—call it which you please—that within these......

Gesture Without Notion

THE older English visitor to Italy spent a good deal of time trying to feel his way back into the life of the past. Towards the present he was at best patronising. But for the......

Horse, The Squadron, The Battle, The Kingdom, Etc., Was...

He makes the most, for instance, of Ludendorff's saying that August 8, 1918, was the black day of the German Army; but, for General Fuller himself, 'unquestionably, April 6th,......