J. Pedro Lorente, Cathedrals of Urban Modernity: The First Museums of Contemporary Art, 1800–1930. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. xiii + 322pp. £47.50. Anselm Gerhard, The Urbanization of Opera: Music Theater in Paris in the Nineteenth Century, translated by Mary Whittall. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxi + 503pp. No price stated.

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J. Pedro Lorente, <i>Cathedrals of Urban Modernity: The First Museums of Contemporary Art, 1800–1930</i>. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. xiii + 322pp. £47.50. Anselm Gerhard, <i>The Urbanization of Opera: Music Theater in Paris in the Nineteenth Century</i>, translated by Mary Whittall. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxi + 503pp. No price stated.