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The Composer's Ear-trumpet

Pick me up. Put me to your ear. No. The other way. Are you deaf? Now, you should be able to hear baton-taps and then the uncoiling clef of the old tunes, fury, fugue,......

Novels Without Words

John Henshall THE SUN by Frans Masereel Redstone Press, 7(a) Lawrence Terrace, London W10 5SU, boxed, £10.95, pp. 68 A the Academy of Fine Art at Ghent in Belgium in 1909, a......

Flight From Australia And The Family

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