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Colin Mason's Music in Britain 1951-62 carries forward Rollo Myers's Music since 1939, a survey ofthe war years, which was continued in Frank Howes's Music 1945-50. It appraises the work of some composers and performers who have recently come to the fore, examines the functions of the chief...

HOUSES THAT ARE HOMESAt the beginning of the nineteenth century Britain was beginning to understand the meaning of the phrase "industrial revolution." There was evidence of it everywhere. It had scarred the face of some of the loveliest parts of the country beyond all restoration. The application...

FILMS SINCE 1939 Every week in Great Britain roughly twenty-five million people go to the cinema. It is the chief urban entertainment; in cities and industrial centres it has long supplanted the theatre as the great popular recreation, and gradually it is gaining a hold over the countryside too,...