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FINCK, Henry Theophilus, journalist, born in Bethel, Shelby County, Maine, 22 September 1854. He was graduated at Harvard in 1876, and in 1877'8 was a resident graduate at Cambridge, as student of sociology. The Harris fellowship having been awarded to him, he studied physiological psychology at Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna from 1878 till 1881. He is on the editorial staff of the New York "Evening Post" and "Nation," his chief writings being musical criticisms, which are characterized by a strong leaning toward the Wagnerian school. He has published a philosophical work entitled "Romantic Love and Personal Beauty" (New York and London, 1887), and a collection of musical essays entitled "Wagner and other Musicians" (1887). He has contributed to periodicals papers on the "Development of the Color Sense" and the "Gastronomic Value of Odors."
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