The Hand-produced Book. By David Diringer. (hutchinson....
Alphabet, published a few years ago, Dr. Diringer 's new book is a remarkable work of synthetic scholarship, a history of " the book " from scratchings in prehistoric caves to......
Age And Youth. By Sir Ernest Barker. (oxford University...
21s.) SIR ERNEST BARKER confesses somewhere that he would gladly have joined a society "for the promotion of recklessness in conversation." Yet his book, which is presented as......
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MR. HODGES'S study of the Elizabethan theatre appears at a time when interest in the subject has been stimulated by the findings of Dr. Leslie Hotson as well as by produc- tions......
Singer And Accompanist—the Exposition Of Fifty Songs. By...
(Methuen. 25s.) OF the many great singers whose names spring to mind at the mention of Wigmore Hall or Gerald Moore (for to many people they are almost synonymous), two at......
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