FINCK, HENRY THEOPHILUS author and music critic, was born at Bethel, Mo., Sept. 22, 1854. At Harvard he won highest honours in philosophy, next becoming a resident graduate at Cambridge, 1877-78. He secured a Harris fellowship, and studied psychology in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna, 1878-81, then intending to become a professor in the subject. It was a commission from the New York World to cover the Niebelungen performance, first Bayreuth festival, which changed his career. In 1881 he was appointed music critic of the New York Evening Post, holding the position 43 years, until 1924. He championed Wagner, Chopin, Liszt, Grieg, and MacDowell, but was proudest of his work to popularize Grieg. Of extraordinary versatility, he wrote on gardening, gastronomics (Food and Flavour being notable), travel, as well as voluminously on music, his books totalling 24. He died at Rumford Falls, Me., Oct. I, 1926.