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NORTHERN DANCE TUNES

... a simple melody, was composed by Thomas Lamb. a local musician of somne repute about five and thirty years ago, and was named after the eele- brated race-horse who won both the Derby and the Leger in the y'ar 16V. The Flying Dutchman' was the property ...

CHILDREN'S HOUR

... month was named after him ? r Another month was named for the god of :h war. What wvas his name and which month ;hwas named after him' May was named e, after Mala, a goddess who was the mother of d the god Mercury, and June was named after y Jupiter's ...

SONGS OF THE MINISTRY

... letters alone ? Ochone, Graham mnacbree I I rea4 (while at lunch) In a number of Punch, That of new seals a bunch Have been named after thee. 1May the next one you break Do the' same to your neck I Ochole, Graham machre6i ...

BEFORE THE TOY SHOP WINDOW

... known the light of day, Some sixty years. It's this way, sir: 'About thirty years ago I had a little baby home named Joe- Named after me- For Joe's mamma afore she came to die As- me to name him that a: way, and I Just did, you see. Small Joe-well, he was ...

ROYAL NAVAL EXHIBITION

... powerf' will- attract much notice; Turning to the left an Arctic panorama will meet the eye'; then the Vincent kal]ery named after -the celebrated admiral, -and de- voted to a display of ordnance. Amongst the exhibits of Sir William Armstrong and Co. ...

LAST NIGHT'S THEATRICALS

... complications with which the story is studded by mistaking a proposal for his daughter's hand for an offer to buy a yacht named after her. The impereona. fion was from the first an excellent study of humble riverside life, and so it remains, Miss Sophie ...

RECENT CONCERTS

... RECENT CQNCERTS LAST Thursday week, a new musical society, named after St. Thomas, came to the front, and gave a capital concert in the hall named after St. James. The society has since been famous, and our readers may care to know its origin. The story ...

Art and Literature

... ease. The Queen Reg'nt of Spain is a seilful emrbroideror. an! has jubt eompleted a maotificent flag for a new ironclad named after her. 3 he standeurd is over eleven yards long and SiX aud ?? wide. At one of the small ?? itres in Paris a series of tableaux ...

VARIETIES

... boy, when are you off?' 'Next week.' 'going to take your wife with you?' ' No; it is a voyage of pleasure.' 'Who are you named after, my boy ? a bright little fellow of seven years was asked. 'My father, sir only I have not his last name.'-' How is that ...

MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

... are on pan the point of completion. Anmuoical scholarship to itor one year) in the South Wales University libs College, named after Dr. Joseph Parry, is to be tuti ?? to the WVe]sh tenor under 23 years of age -eho satisfies the adjudicators in readinz ...

BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... other arrangements.. The' oratorio is based on incidents in the life of Elisha, and would more app~opriately have been named 'after that prophet, instead of' the Assyrian captain, who occupies but a subordinate'platein the scheme. Those who-have heard-it ...

NEW MUSIC

... Garden of Girls is excep- tionaL It is garden-like in its variety of musical colouring, and while the various move- meats, named after different girls, are allil effective, the fourth, Beatrice, with its threei changes of key, is quite charming. I 'TheI ...