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Verdi And Weber

THE new series of "Master Musicians," edited by Mr. Eric Blom, set a high example with Alfred Einstein's Gluck, and J. A. Westrup's Purcell. Mr. Hussey's Verdi is not so learned......

Wavell On Allenby

Allenby : A Study in Greatness. By General Sir Archibald Wavell. (Harrap. x8s.) HERE is a piece of work well done, and apt reading for the times. General Wavell is at once the......

English Domestic Architecture

The Story of the English House. By Hugh Braun. (Batsford. ' Os. 6d.) IN the preface to his present work the author states that he is "all too conscious of the gaps which mar his......