In einer Buchbesprechung "The Story of Music" durch Henderson Williams in den Passaic Daily News (Passaic, New Jersey) auf S. 8 wird auch Bruckner erwähnt:

"[...]

     Paul Bekker's admirable historical sketch of the changes in musical form has been translated into English by M. D. Norton and Alice Kortschak [... über Entwicklungstendenzen, u. a. bei der Werkgröße und Besetzung ...]. We notice how the gigantic forms which Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss need for their music, which is still dominated by the idea of harmonic expansion, now contract, as it were. They shrink into small, clear-cut concentrated patterns [... ausführliche Besprechung des Buches ...]."