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S IRS In his review of my book Mr. Dyneley Hussey

gives the impression that I am contemptuous of Lassus and his contemporaries. As a matter of fact their music is described as " in its way supreme."' 'Nowhere is Monteverdi described as the first of the grtRit compokiii but as the " first of a long

line . of whoiri: Sibelius was the last "—quite a different statement, and worded" so as to mark the difference which came over music at the end of the sixteenth century.—Yours