... latter half of the hundred years that has just closed. The reader's affections are caught young and are never alienated. Tobias Mozart Spurr, the country virtuoso risen from an innkeeping tradition to the status of a minor country gentleman, takes his place ...

... I should hate to ride my bicycle through a concert-hall filled to overflowing with an audience tautly listening to a new Mozart composition. On the other hand, if their material world is a material world quite apart from our own, how does the 44 messenger ...

... to show you, Mr. Langering, what I mean, I'll give you a little selection on the Boutophone. Bertha, dear, just get out the Mozart, the Chopin, and the Beethoven (he pronounced them Anglice, as spelt), and we'll try and convert our young friend. Speak ...

... please, all falsehood and deceit and cheating I hope life isn't like that, she burst out. If it is, I shall hate it. How could Mozart have given that perfect music to those horrid words and horrid people How could he There seemed to be some sense in what she ...