ORPHEUS ; or THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE. By W.
3. Turner. (Regan Paul. 25. 6d.)
MR. TURNER is so prodigal with his cheap and generalizing condemnations that we cease to take him seriously after a few pages of his little pamphlet, but later, to our great surprise, we find this fierce mocker turning his face to the East and singing a loud " Credo," in clauses of Georgian prose. The subject of the belief is Beethoven ; it continues for several ecstatic pages until at last we find ourselves a little shaken by the dynamic force of the utterance. Then we reason a little and find that we have been in danger of subscribing to philosophic licence. The author's mind is too scintillating to be trusted and its movements are too tangential to allow it to penetrate and dwell within the still confines of rounded reasoning. Moreover, a good deal of the book is given up to tiresome extravagance.
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