After five years of absence Busoni has returned to England, and his recital at the Wigmore Hall on October 15th showed that his playing has lost none of its former strength and vitality, whilst it has undoubtedly gained in dignity and serenity. His audience consisted mainly of musicians, and his programme was evidently intended for serious and cultivated listeners. He began with the first prelude and fugue from Bach's _Forty-Eight_, producing a wonderful effect at the end of the fugue by a continuous haze of pedal, through which the counterpoint yet stood out with perfect clearness. His reading of the _Goldberg Variations_ was startling, both in its quality of tone and in its departures from the text. But it was clear that there was a considered reason for everything that was done, and as a commentary on Bach the performance was of singular interest. Busoni was at his best in Beethoven's _Hammerklaviev_ sonata. It is probably the most difficult work in all the literature of the pianoforte. When Busoni plays one does not take technical difficulties into account; but this sonata is both supremely difficult to understand and supremely difficult to interpret to an audience. To grasp its vastness of conception and to present it without the least appearance of struggle in perfect balance of poetry and philosophy is a task which Busoni alone of living pianists can accomplish. It was evident from the behaviour of the audience after the end of the sonata that they all realised how in comparison with Busoni most other pianists, despite their admirable qualities, are very small fry. EDWARD J. DENT. BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF MODERN AUTHORS[4] [4] In this section we propose to give monthly skeleton lists of the works of modern authors: where feasible of contributors to the issue current. THOMAS HARDY [_Poetical works only. Full information as to all his writings may be obtained from the bibliographies by A. P. Webb and H. Danielson._] COLLECTED POEMS. Macmillan. 1919. [This volume and that containing _The Dynasts_, mentioned below, give a full collection of Mr. Hardy's work in verse. The Wessex and Mellstock editions of his complete works include his poems in several volumes.] SELECTED POEMS. Macmillan. 1916. [In the Golden Treasury Series.] WESSEX POEMS. Macmillan. 1898. [This volume contains illustrations in pen and ink by the author.] POEMS OF PAST AND PRESENT. Macmillan. 1901. THE DYNASTS. Macmillan. Part I., 1903. Part II., 1906. Part III., 1908. [Now published in one volume.] TIME'S LAUGHING STOCKS. Macmillan. 1909. SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE, with miscellaneous pieces. Macmillan. 1914. MOMENTS OF VISION. Macmillan. 1917.