Note 230 — Chapter XV

Particularly to be recommended are the following: the essay in Musical Studies by Newman; that by R. Rolland in Musiciens d'aujourd'hui (in French and in English); Berlioz et la société de son temps by J. Tiersot; the essay in Studies in Modern Music by Hadow; Berlioz's own Mémoires (in French and in English) and his entertaining essays, A Travers Chants, Grotesques de la Musique and Soirées d'Orchestre; the excellent résumé of Berlioz's writings in the Amateur Series by W.F. Apthorp; the Symphony since Beethoven by Weingartner; and, above all, the monumental work by Boschot in three parts—La Jeunesse d'un Romantique, Un Romantique sous Louis Philippe, Le Crépuscule d'un Romantique. There is an amusing but far from convincing assault against Berlioz as a programme composer and, to a certain extent, against Romanticism in general, in the New Laocoön by Professor Irving Babbitt.