A Musical Pilgrim's Progress - Tapa dura

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Not that I wish to repudiate my signature, but Mr. Rorke is, I am sure, the last person to wish to pin any one down with undue tightness. I have read AM iisical Pilgrim sP rogress, usually with cordial agreement, occasionally with slight dissent, and always with genuinely keen interest; it seems to me a new sort of book, full of artistic insight arrestingly expressed. To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Rorke has broken fresh ground: not only fresh, but also fruitful. The psychological development of the amateur (amator, the lover-as-such) set down, as in these pages, in candour and without convention, by one who can transform his musical enthusiasms into articulate literature here is surely matter both of moment and of attractiveness to all for whom music is more than the sounding brass and the tinkling cymbal. Mr. Rorke addresses a modest challenge to other musiclovers to follow in his steps, and as he has asked me to write a preface to his book, I am perhaps bound to accept the challenge, though with a full and lively realization of the fact that my evolution has been nothing like so respectable as his. Horresco referens, indeed; but I suppose I must obey.
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