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...French Literature of the Nineteenth Century," by Professor Morize, Emerson...
While by knowledge and actual practice he is well qualified to expound ultra-modern harmony, Professor Piston confines most of his discussion to what he calls "the common practice" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "The technical study of the diversified and apparently unrelated idioms of the twentieth century composers is most logically approached through a clear conception of what harmonic practice has been throughout the preceding two hundred years." The student is led to a more enlightened attitude toward the "rules" by such wise statements as the following: "the so-called rules of harmony represent what is done...
...French Drawings and Prints of the Nineteenth Century" is the subject of a new loan exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. This exhibit will be open to the public until Saturday, April 28. It is the third of a series which will show the history and development of the Graphic Arts in France...
...vast movement that swings away from an ideal that has dominated European life since the Council of Constance, the idea of liberty as the most worthwhile and important goal toward which mankind should struggle. Only temporarily interrupted by the triumph of the forces of royal absolutism, in the nineteenth century the idea of liberty became the great intellectual motivating force in economic as well as political and social life...
Perhaps the important thing that Mr. Wallace has to say is his virtual confession that nineteenth century liberalism along with its dominant idea, freedom of expression, will have to be abandoned; he says that we must submit to "a completely army-like, nationalist discipline even in peace time," and this also requires "a certain degree of regimental opinion." In short adoption of the new order means the definite and final end of democracy as anything but a myth and a dream...