... fete tttusic MESSRS. A. HAMMOND AND CO. Nos. 26 and 27 of the Academic Edition of Pianoforte Music are respectively Three Musical Sketches, by Sterndale Bennett: The Lake, The Millstream, and T ...

... Itcfo HUisic MESSRS. METZLER AND CO. There will be joy amongst the little ones in nursery and school room over Nursery Ditties, in which all the merry and sad rhymes, ancient and modern, are set to ...

... I J^lusic) GILBERT AND CELLIER'S NEW OPERA THE MOUNTEBANKS which, after more than one postpone ment caused by the illness and subsequent death of its composer, was produced at the Lyric Theatre on M ...

... ilefo HTustc CHARLES tVOOLIIOUSE A VERY pretty song, which will take a good position in concert and drawing room, is Song of the Gondolier, translated from the Italian by Albert B. Bach, set to music ...

... THE BO'S* UN OF THE FSVCHE COMMANDER Claud Harding, R.N., like sea-novelists generally, is rather awkward in the management of his feminine interest. There is no symptom of any till the second volume ...

... Ulrs. fhunpljnr glcfo ooIt THE HISTORY OK DAVID GRIEVE NOTHING is more unfair, from every point of view, than to let the astounding and still unaccountable popularity of Robert Els mere affect the ...

... ftefo lilustc ALPHONSE CARY Two cheerful songs for young girls are Second Sight, words by Claxson Bellamy, music by James C. Beazley for a voice of medium compass and Sweet Girl Graduates, written a ...

... HH \v\- ^/y/A\ww\vv A GREAT MODERN DISIIOT To Messrs. Methuen's English Leaders of Religion Series is added Bishop Wilberforce, by G. W. Daniell, M A, The author has followed a' judicious hint thrown ...

... MESSRS. J. AND J. HOI'KINSON Book IV. of The Grosvenor Album will be a useful com panion at a Christmas festive gathering. It contains six well-known songs for a tenor, including My Love and 1 (Giro P ...

... PETER IBBETSON MR. GEORGE DUMAURIER'S Peter Ibbetson (2 vols.: J. R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.), is not one to be either read or digested, or even written about in a hurry. Indeed, it is very dou ...

... Ulusic DURING the Easter holidays musical performances have for the most part been suspended. There have, however, been exceptions, among them the very numerous sacred concerts given on Good Friday. C ...

... IJcfo iltusir THE LYRIC MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY Two lively songs, which will prove antidotes to more serious ditties, are 44 At the Sign of the Ship, a nautical yarn, written and composed by A. Vald ...