by ERNEST LUSH WILLIAM BAINES died at the age of twenty-three in 1922. He was a remarkable boy. Up till two years before he died he had never heard a string quartet or a symphony orchestra (how impossible in these days of broadcasting), and yet, being self-taught, he had actually written chamber works and orchestral music of astonishingly fine quality. He did not live long enough, of course, to leave much behind, but what he did leave (mostly piano music) showed such rare promise and is so mature in form and beauty, that the early death of Baines ranks as part of that tragedy of early deaths from which British music has suffered in recent years.