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...faithfully translated and copiously annotated as they are, these letters explain everything about Beethoven except his music. "Beethoven's letters are full of sham rhetoric, so obviously sincere," writes Biographer Alan Pryce-Jones. "He never learned to use words, let alone spell them, and scarcely troubled to attach more than an oblique meaning to them . . . He ran no risk of disseminating his feelings in the ordinary intercourse of humanity." Even while Beethoven was composing his finest works-the last quartets-his letters were concerned only with servants, publishers and nephew. Whence came the soaring grandeur and philosophic calm that...
...excommunication from the local church-often amounted to political exile. In 1640, Sister Temperance Sweet was cast out of the First Church of Boston for giving "entertainment to disorderly Company & ministering unto ym wine & strong waters even unto Drunkenesse & yt not wth out some iniquity both in ye measure & pryce thereof." In 1681, however, Sister Cleaves of Roxbury got off with a public admonition, although she had "corrupted Mr. Lamb's neger" so that "in a discontent" he had set two houses afire...
...Sydney, Australia, where hospital inmates were kept awake at night by barking dogs, the dogs were silenced by severing their vocal chords. One E. G. Pryce, returning from Russia, declared that Soviet scientists have bred a barkless dog by crossing a Siberian wolfhound with an Australian dingo...
DEEP WATER-Pryce Mitchell-Little, Brown ($2.50). Fast-moving autobiography of a sea-captain...
...unique in the world for the high quality of its designs by foremost artists. It is all due to Mr. Frank Pick, enlightened business manager. He gave Frank Brangwyn, the great etcher, a chance to exhibit his powerful lithographic epics to millions. He placed before the public G. Spencer Pryce's impressive studies of the life of the poor and the working classes. But he used with equal tolerance the irrepressible creations of Tony Sarg, MacDonald Gill, E. A. Cox, humorists; and the beautiful nature studies of Fred Taylor, F. Gregory Brown, E. Mc-Knight Kauffer, inviting the weary...