Men, Women and Pianos A pioneer in the promotion

A pioneer in the promotion of interfaith dialogue

both of a popular and of a highly specialized kind

000 illustrations

and elementary differential equations

Readers of all ages will delight in following the exuberant child as he sets sail in a boat built by thrushes from an island in the Serpentine to the enchanted Kensington Gardens

Men, Women and Pianos A pioneer in the promotionAs the "social anchor" in middle class homes of the nineteenth century, the piano was simultaneously an elegant piece of drawing room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, and a means of introducing the young to music. In this admirably balanced and leisurely account of the popular instrument, the late, internationally known concert pianist Arthur Loesser takes a "piano's eye view" of the recent social history of Western Europe and the United