“The book is a call to revive the partnership between government and industry.”. Read “Valley pique,” by Brian C. Anderson.

“Certainly, Dumas is great fun: he does not linger over description or preachment.”. Read “Alexandre Dumas: fact & fiction,” by Renee Winegarten (May 1991).

“Lady Pamela Berry used her husband’s position and her own feistiness to wield ‘petticoat power.‘”. Read “The gypsy lady who rocked the boat,” by David Platzer.

“Queen Victoria was considered the ‘grandmother of Europe,’ through marriages rather than military conquests.” . Read “Grandmother knew best,” by David Platzer.

“An hour is ample, and there can be no better examples of the irrelevance of chronological time when listening to music.”. Read “A towering triptych,” by Jonathan Gaisman.

“Sartre combined Communist fellow-traveling with limitless sympathy for violence at the service of revolt.”. Read “Contre Sartre,” by Daniel J. Mahoney.

“Moral kitsch is different: it asks us to indulge a ghoulish, calculated sentimentality about other peoples’ suffering.”. Read “Moral kitsch & standing ovations,” by Max L. Feldman.

“Even the most gifted of Seurat’s disciples had a hard time making his method work for them.”. Read “Seurat, one hundred years later,” by Hilton Kramer (June 1991).

“Joby Talbot’s brilliant score is mystifying, atmospheric, and appropriately anxiety-inducing.”. Read “More than a whimsy?” by Abigail Anthony. @abigailandwords .

“The opera’s ballet sequence, ‘The Dance of the Hours,’ is certainly the most famous dance music in all of Italian opera.”. Read “Venice on the Danube,” by Paul du Quenoy.

“It is a life-affirming and charming book, wonderfully written and enthusiastically to be devoured.”. Read “Of feasters & flâneurs,” by Sean McGlynn.

“There is something like a middle movement in this ‘ballad,’ providing some relief: beautiful, soft, mysterious passages.”. Read “New York chronicle,” by Jay Nordlinger. @jaynordlinger .

“It was as if Schoenberg were performing too.”. Read “Credible tones,” by M. P. Kennedy.

Our critic’s pick: “The Civil War,” by Jeremy Black (St. Augustine’s Press).

Our critic’s pick: “Private Planning and the Great Estates: Lessons from London,” by John Kroencke (The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics).

Our critic’s pick: “Dalibor,” presented by SummerScape Opera, at Bard College (through August 3).

Our critic’s pick: BAAND Together Dance Festival, at Lincoln Center (July 29–August 2).

“Hugo’s success lies in the fact that these drawings have not been easily assimilated into a standard story of art history.”. Read “Exhibition note,” by John Chaves.

“Apparently a dropped shoulder strap suggested questionable morals.”. Read “An artist of the portrait as a young man,” by Karen Wilkin. @metmuseum .

“O’Neill tried to build huge dramatic cathedrals out of Freudian jetsam.”. Read “Young & at sea,” by Donald Lyons (November 1993).