Fritz Kreisler
by .Macmillan, $5.00.
This first biography of the great violinist traces his career from the age of three, when he could read scores before his ABC, to his seventy-fifth birthday. Mr. Lochner has known Kreisler intimately for years. He gives us a vivid picture of the man (in which Kreisler often speaks for himself) as he tells the story of his marriage to a singularly spirited woman; his experiences as a soldier in the First World War: his famous “hoax” on the critics; his many hobbies; bis freedom from “ artistic ” eccentricities. There is a chapter on Kreisler’s recordings.