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'The Bard and the Prep-School', Scrutiny, ix/1 (June 1940), 76-80
Review of Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas;
The Backward Son by Stephen Spender.

'Rubbra's No 3', Scrutiny, ix/2 (September 1940), 120-30
Includes nine musical examples. The only case of such examples found in the writings of Mellers for Scrutiny.

'Pelicans', Scrutiny, ix/2 (September 1940), 177-178
Review of Pelican Books: You and Music by Christian Darnton;
Opera by E J Dent

'Petulant Peacock [Letters on Poetry, from W B Yeats to Dorothy Welleley],' Scrutiny, ix/2 (September 1940), 197-199

'Cats in Air-Pumps', Scrutiny, ix/3 (December 1940), 289-300
review of Poets of Tomorrow: Cambridge Poetry 1940;
The Gathering Storm by William Empson;
Song and Idea by Richard Eberhart;
East Coker by T S Eliot

'Mahler as a Key Figure', Scrutiny, ix/4 (March 1941), 343-351

'A Book on Yeats [The Poetry of W B Yeats by Louis MacNeice], Scrutiny, ix/4 (March 1941), 381-383

'Towards a Musical Academy', Scrutiny, x/1 (June 1941), 4-21

'Bartók on Wax', Scrutiny, x/1 (June 1941), 88-90
Review of String Quartet No 2 performed by the Budapest String Quartet

'The Ox in Spain', Scrutiny, x/1 (June 1941), 93-99
Review of For Whom the Bells Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

'Conservatism and Tradition: Post Obitum -- Donald Francis Tovey, Hamilton Harty, Frank Bridge', Scrutiny, x/2 (October 1941), 106-113

'A Brahms Recording', Scrutiny, x/2 (October 1941), 211-212
Review of Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello and piano, played by Reginald Kell, Anthony Pini and Louis Kentner

In January 1942 W H Mellers' name appears on the editorial board of Scrutiny for the first time.

'First Broadcast Performance', Scrutiny, x/3 (January 1942), 218-221

Divertimento for Strings by Bela Bartók;
Violin Concerto by William Walton;
Spenser Sonnets by Edmund Rubbra

'Tippettan Discovery', Scrutiny, x/3 (January 1942), 309-312
Fantasy Sonata by Michael Tippett performed by Phyllis Sellick

'Dvorak Centenary Records', Scrutiny, x/3 (January 1942), 312-[313]
Review of Quintet in E Flat for piano and strings performed by the Silverman Quartet and Margaret Good;
Terzetto for strings performed by the Grinke Trio

'Language and Function in American Music', Scrutiny, x/4 (April 1942), 356-57

'Master of the King's Musick, 1942', Scrutiny, x/4 (April 1942), 376-380

'Gramophone Records', Scrutiny, x/4 (April 1942), 402-405
Review of Ernest Bloch, Quintet for piano and strings performed by Alfredo Casella and the Pro Arte Quartet;
E Bloch, String Quintet performed by the Stuyvesant Quartet

'Towards a Conception of Musical Tradition (I): Melody and Texture, Medieval and Modern', Scrutiny, xi/1 (Summer 1942), 2-17

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