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...Rash Intruder--Handel...
ULTIMA THULE-Henry Handel Richardson-Norton...
...sales mounted in England the book aroused comment and gossip unusual even for the best bestsellers. Reason: it is a literary mystery. For Henry Handel Richardson is but the nom de plume of an authoress who conceals her real name. She is a robust, middle-aged London woman, long and strong of face, wife of an able scientist. Born in Australia, trained in Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition...
...France the bagpipe was a favorite instrument in Marie Antoinette's day. Marie herself piped. Courtiers called it the musette and equipped it with hand bellows so that their pretty faces would not be empurpled by hard blowing. Respectability came to the musette when Schubert and Handel wrote pieces for it, when a musette player played in the Opera orchestra in Paris in the iSth century...
...Then round about the starry throne," from "Samson" Handel...