The Bookshelf: May, Thomas, Decoding Wagner: An invitation to Cooke, Mervyn, Letters His World of Music Drama, from a Life: Selected letters Reviewed by Steve Wes- of Benjamin Britten, Volume ton, XXXVIII:2:36 Three, Reviewed by Keith E. Clifton, XXXVIII:3:36 Nice, David, Prokofiev—A Biography, Reviewed by Goehring, Edmund J., Keith E. Clifton, Three Modes of Perception XXXVIII:1:36 in Mozart, Reviewed by Eric Einhorn, XXXVIII:4:63 Scruton, Roger, Death- Devoted Heart: Sex and the Hallman, Diana R., Opera, Sacred in Wagner’s Tristan Liberalism, and Antisemi- und Isolde, Reviewed by tism in Nineteenth-Century John Harrison, France, Reviewed by Bon- XXXVIII:3:41 nie Cutsforth-Huber, XXXVIII:4:66 Singer, Harry, Ever After: The Last years of Musical Hutcheon, Linda and Mi- Theater and Beyond, Re- cahel Hutcheon, Opera; the viewed by Artemis Preeshl, Art of Dying, Reviewed by XXXVIII:2:39 Rachel Bergman, XXXVIII:3:39 Smart, Mary Ann, Mimo- mania: Music and Gesture Kelly, Thomas Forrest, in Nineteenth-Century Op- First Nights at the Opera, eras, Reviewed by Eric Reviewed by Keith E. Einhorn, XXXVIII:2:31 Clifton, XXXVIII:2:34 Williams, Simon, Wagner Kitcher, Philip & Richard and the Romantic Heror, Schacht, Finding an Ending: Reviewed by John Relections on Wagner's Harrison, Ring, Reviewed by Steve XXXVIII:1:39 Weston, XXXVIII:4:68 Zajaczkowski, Henry, An Letellier, Robert Ignatius, Introduction to The Diaries of Giacomo Tchaikovsky’s Operas, Re- Meyerbeer: Volume 4, Re- viewed by John Harrison, viewed by Keith E. Clifton, XXXVIII:4:70 XXXVIII:1:33 The Opera Journal Short notices from the Review Editor: John Harrison Ossi, Massimo, Divining the oracle: Monteverdi's Sec- onda Prattica, XXXVIII:4:72 Gershunoff, Maxim and Leon Van Dyke, It’s Not ALL Song and Dance: A life Behind the Scenes in the Per- forming Arts, XXXVIII:2:41 Hurwitz, David, The Mahler symphonies: an Owner's Manual, XXXVIII:1:41 Scherer, F. M., Quarter Notes and Black Notes: the Economics of Music Compo- sition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, XXXVIII:4:72 Steen, Michael, The Lives & Times of the Great compos- ersa, XXXVIII:1:42