6 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 43

RECEIVE IT SO. By Basil Maine. (Noel Douglas. 5s.)— Mr.

Basil Maine, wh se articles on musical matters will be known to readers or the Spectator, has collected together a number of essays in. a pleasing little volume entitled Receive it So. The reader will find much to charm him in Mr. Maine's admirable style and sense of irony and a great deal to challenge discussion in some of the conclusions he reaches. Mr. Maine writes as vigorously on the theatre as he does upon music and he has seen beneath the surface of the great dramatic uprising that is going on in England to-day. If some of his opinions appear contradictory it should be remembered that it is only the good and honest critic who has the strength of purpose to alter his mind.