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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14457, 25 February 1909, Page 8

— It is not often that composers of distinction turn their attention to the making of liooli6. Yet there have been many notable exceptions, and in the majority of cases their literary work bears upon it the stamp of a character, and sometimes r distinction, hardly less marked than that whioh raised their music above the common level. Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz, Schumann, Hubert Parry—to mention but a lew, picked haphazard—are almost as familiar— or should be—to the musician of lesser note but equal enthusiasm through their contributions to the literature of tho art as through their music. Schumann, in all probability, was the greatest composer who ever exercised the faculties of a critic, and, conversely, the greatest critic who ever composed. Berlioz and Liszt added invaluable matter to the sum of our knowledge, and Hubert Parry's volume on "The Art of Music"—to say nothing of a multitudo of smaller writings—is undeniably ft- mt(§tfrplcs&TsTctegi'anh, ....<._' ,~