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A Visitor For Johnson

Tins agreeable and well-dressed little volume is welcome for more reasons than one ; though principally on account of the cool and extremely frank examination of Johnson and his......

Fiction

IT is a shock, when one has heard much of the brilliance and originality of any writer, to encounter his work and to find it mediocre. That, however, is my decided reaction to......

Music In Vienna

Schubert: a Documentary Biography. By Otto Eric Deutsch. Trans- lated by Eric Blom. (Dent. 63s.) Tins is the main body of the life-work of an eminent Viennese Schubert scholar......