In Two Volumes. A Well Known Music Critic And Scholar, Hogarth’s Major Claim To Fame Was That Charles Dickens Was His Father-In-Law. He Was The Author Of Several Other Books Related To Music, All Highly Regarded But More Popular Than Scholarly. In This Work, He Treated The Past For The Most Part With Just A Bit On Musical Drama In His Own Time. A Most Useful History For The Layman And Even For The Scholar.