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Having written them, this not prevent Mr. Hardy from also cluding in the volume a number of most wondrous examples of what playfully call the lyric art that ever w through a printing-press. In this respect it would be difficult choose between the poem containing As the timid quivering steer, Starting a couple of feet At the prod of a driver's stick, And trotting lightly and quick, A ticket stuck on his rump, Enters with a bewildered jump. and the verse endingWhile woodlands, finches, sparrow try to entune at one time And cocks and hens and cows an bulls take up the chime. although a body of qualified jud would probably give the decision to t chiming bulls, on points. Apart from these occurrences, M Hardy has incorporated a number those fragments of West Country tra tion-little stories and descriptions th made his "Wessex Tales" such ple In writing to the above advertisers please mention The Outlook t reading. He seems fascinated by A star looks down at me, I say: "For all I know, Till my change come," "Just so," So mean I!". When he wrote that Thomas Hardy s a poet. Music E SPIRIT OF MUSIC: HOW TO FIND IT AND HOW TO SHARE IT. By Edward Dickinson. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $2. A spirit of quiet jubilation is evident the introduction to Mr. Dickinson's mirable book. He has seen an exordinary growth in the extent and ality of appreciation of music in the ited States. He can remember the e when there were not half a dozen hestras in this country capable of ying a Beethoven symphony to the isfaction of a trained musician, and y one the old Theodore Thomas thestra of New York-which made ular concert tours. Back in the '80's harmony teacher threw cold water on ambition to speak on music by telling that there was no demand for leces on music in this country and no that there ever would be. Times e changed certainly, but the musical lennium is not here yet. 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