Basil Stephen Maine (4 March 1894 - 13 October 1972) was an English writer and critic on music.
Among his publications is Behold These Daniels (1928), a stylistic survey on the approaches of his music critic contemporaries.
[5] After that he shifted his career towards journalism, becoming music critic for newspapers such as The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph (from 1922), the Morning Post (1930) and the Sunday Times (1935–40).
He wrote some choral works for the Norwich Festival, including O Lord our Governor and Praise to God in 1936.
His early volume Behold these Daniels consists of 12 character sketches of critics (including the author) that originally appeared in Musical Times columns in 1926–7.