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The book is sumptuously got up and finely printed."-The Times. "A handsome volume in which the inception and history of the Musical Festivals in Norwich are fully set forth. All the available authorities have been drawn upon, and the result is a series of records which will be found to possess decided interest for music lovers, as well as for those who have had special opportunity of noting the progress of the divine art' in East Anglia. The volume contains several excellent portraits together with facsimile letters from Mendelssohn and Spohr. . . . A very complete chronicle."-Daily Telegraph. "A truly magnificent volume. This work, it may be said, possesses far more than local interest; it deals with an important page of the musical history of our country. The volume is so admirably got up that it would be worth purchasing if only on account of the portraits that adorn its pages."-Morning Post. Peeps at the Past; or, Rambles among Norfolk Antiquities. By the late MARK KNIGHTS. 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