The Browning Cyclopædia: A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning

book led to a controversy with Dr. Hayes, in which, according to the

_Dictionary of National Biography_, from which we take the facts, 'Hayes had the best of the argument, though Avison was superior from a literary point of view.' Avison, who is reported to have been a man of great culture and polish, published several sets of sonatas and concertos, but there are probably ...