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and Other Poems," with a long in- Illustrated, 158. net.)
the past of tracing subterranean takes the part of guide, explain- Musicians, both in this country troductory essay on Keats and and abroad, will agree that a full- Swinburne; and he has written ing has had little attention from given of the various instruments thing of the artist themselves and Whilst in Britain water divin-water and of the men who practising all the examples briefly but ed them; full descriptions are adequately and telling us some» : scale study and survey of the life the introduction to the Oxford scientists of the first rank, with which have been used from the how they worked. and works of Sir Edward Elgar is
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