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Mary Stewart And Scotland

The Queen's Cause. By Mrs. Hubert Barclay. (Michael Joseph. 1 5s.) WALTER GOODALL, a hanger-on of David Hume, wrote the first defence of Mary Stewart in 1754. (Hume once woke......

The Development Of Modern Music

A Hundred Years of Music. By Gerald Abraham. (Duck- worth. z5s.) IN the beginning of the nineteenth century the development of European music altered in character, and what had......