Wagner

Wagner*

Ernest Newman (TIME, Oct. 13), long critic of the London Sunday Times, is for this year guest critic of The New York Evening Post. There is probably no critic writing in English whose estimates of contemporary music are of more interest.

Newman can outwrite the cleverest of the sophisticates. His literary manner is a nimble and adaptable instrument, bubble-light, steel-keen. His taste is of the highest degree of nicety, his appreciations broadly tolerant He is courageously frank, never self-consciously clever. Above all, he has what is...

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