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Kippered Red Herring

pRIFFAULT was a Communist and The Mothers is, In one way, a gigantic exemplification of the evolutionary theories of Engels's The Origin of the Family; Briffault felt that the......

Noble And True

The Life of Beethoven By Alexander Thayer. (Centaur Press, 3 vols., 4 gns.) MOZART was one of the three greatest composers who ever lived. He also—at (for him) a quite advanced......