dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne Perry) (10/09/85)
<> the $22.50 book of the month club version is of course in two volumes and comes complete with a drawer for the magnifying glass - though perhaps a volume control would be more appropriate for the music. you can get the entire previous edition for less than the new individual biographies (taken together) - a much better deal. For those of you who might be interested in documentary biographies, the three volumes by Otto Erich Deutsch on Handel, Mozart and Schubert are super - extracts from letters, journals, newspapers, etc provide a wealth of material on the composer, compositions, the mileau, etc. Dewayne Perry