Tits latest annual instalment of The Record Guide is quite
up to the earlier standard in the fullness of the information it provides. It contains a full and detailed review of the first published volumes of The History of Music in Sound and continues its invaluable service of listing records that are deleted and thus only available after much trouble and often great expense. The reputation for wit, too, is maintained, though Perhaps with rather less discrimination in the butts. The fun poked at Khachaturian's tawdry piano concerto is wholly legitimate ; and to refer to" the shrill hooting or mousy timidity " of the trebles in the records of English church music, though bound to give offence, is nevertheless just. Evidences of less certain taste appear in the strictures on the Urlicht ' movement of Mahler's second symphony and the surprising im- patience with The Magic Flute.
M. C.
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