able mimic, and an
excellent
story-teller.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
clerks, shop-assistants, petty tradesmen-
Walford Davies's 'Peter Pan Quartet,
and has brought a mind singularly open
But, whatever their respective contribu-
to which he has added a new movement,
will be performed. Miss Johanne Stock-
to bear on current social problems. Mr. tions, the authors have provided a delight-
mart will take the pianoforte part in Bennett, thanks to a memory retentive ful entertainment-delightful despite its
Dvorák's delightful Quintet in A.
of details and an instinct for almost lack of a regular plot, for the idea behind
THE first of Mr. Balfour Gardiner's photographic description, has elaborated it and the retention of certain characters
Choral and Orchestral Concerts at Queen's studies of provincial life and manners, throughout secure just sufficient unity of
Hall will take place next Wednesday, when as they were to be noted in his youth, impression. Merely to watch the changes
the whole programme, with two exceptions, which convince by their actuality and of costumes and house-decorations as
will be devoted to new works by the follow. thoroughness. Both men think for them they appear in a single drawing-room
ing English composers: Bax, Grainger, Bell, selves, both have been labelled Socialists, during half a century is piquant enough ;
and the concert-giver.
both can indicate felicitously the attitude but we also see changes of taste, etiquette,
FRANZ VON VECSEY's performance of intellectual, moral, and artistic-of de conversational topics, domestic relations,
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at his second cades which we and they have outlived.
and the dramatists have contrived mar-
recital at Bechstein Hall on Wednesday
vellously to get the tone of the three ages
evening was full of life and at times brilliancy; The stage attracts writers to-day, while they picture in turn. They are fortunate
but, although the pianoforte accompaniment they assimilate the confusing material also in their interpreters. Miss Haidée
was ably played by Mr. Richard Epstein, which confronts the student of the actual, Wright's old maid brings home to us
it is difficult to judge & violinist without
the colouring and support of an orchestra. if only as promising them a wider and more appealingly the pathos of useless self-
Vecsey's reading of the Tartini Trille du immediate hearing : Mr. Wells and Mr. sacrifice. This character might, we think,
Diable
Sonata was
very good indeed. Bennett have felt its fascination. But, have been put to better use, if she had
So also was Bach's Sonata in G minor for whereas the author of 'The Honeymoon been endowed with a
more intuitive
violin alone, but in time for he is young- has served his apprenticeship, his more sympathy for those on whom the door
he will interpret it with more feeling and emotional colleague suspects himself of
fuller understanding.
was closing as well as those who were
inability to adapt himself to a new knocking at it. She might also have been
Two foreign pianists have given recitals medium. So, though we have the spectacle used to bring the dates of the play
during the past ten days. M. Egon Petri's this week of both men trying their fortunes together in a less obvious manner-to
third and last recital took place at Bechstein in the theatre with a collaborator to perform, in fact, the part of the ideal and
third set of Liszt's * Années de Pélerinages. ' steady their efforts, they are not in the interested spectator. Miss Mary Jerrold
He has shown himself an artist of the first
Mr. Wells admits that the is an engagingly demure Victorian miss ;
rank. His tendency at times to hurry and credit for adapting his story of Kipps' and Mr. Þennis Eadie improves with
exaggerate the tone is unfortunate, especially for the Vaudeville belongs to Mr. Besier. each transformation of the character he
as all else is so good ; but time and experi- Mr. Bennett's share in the composition of portrays from early manhood to the age
ence will no doubt bring more restraint. the enchanting comedy which he and Mr. which lags superfluous on the scene.
On Monday evening M. Alexandre Siloti, Knoblauch have had presented at the
, a is
It must be stated regretfully that Mr.
recital at. Messrs. Novello's before the real quantity, for here we have no work Wells's conception of his humble hero is
London Chamber Concert Association. His founded on a novel, but a play designed not realized in Mr. Besier's rehandling of
rendering of Bach's 'Chaconne,' arranged by
nique, and his playing of other Bach move- be sure, it embodies familiar notions of assistant, so troubled by the fortune
ments, arranged by himself and one by the novelist, and is easily related with the which lifts him out of his natural sphere,
Szanto, was most artistic; there was nothing more ambitious of his achievements in
seems smothered on the stage in the
up to date either in the transcriptions or in fiction.
external trappings of the character. His
the interpretations. The Liszt Rhapsody,
“loud” clothes, his offensive table-
No. 12, was given with genuine Hungarian Mr. Bennett has always been successful manners, his accent, and his general
fire, but the pianist was less happy in in tracing the stereotyping influences of oafishness are forced into prominence,
Chopin's Ballade in a flat.
age on human nature, and in catching the and leave us no time to feel pity for his
habits of mind, modes of speech, and pre- loneliness and social embarrassments. The
occupations of periods of the more recent lad to whom our sympathies went out
past. He likes following his characters in the novel, because his vulgarity was
from childhood to senility ; he knows skin-deep and his real nature was sweet
what people were wearing, talking about, and clean, is reduced to the level of the
and feeling in the seventies and eighties. counterjumper of farce. In the absence
It is easy, then, to see who inspired the of the author's commentary all the values
scheme of the Royalty play. A family seem changed. We find ourselves laugh-
history, as this is, which ranges over fifty ing at Kipps's solecisms instead of smiling
over his ingenuousness.
ROYALTY. -Milestones. By Arnold Bennett
and Edward Knoblauch.
Only the love-scenes ring true, largely
VAUDEVILLE. —Kipps. By H. G. Wells and because of the delicate art of Miss Christine
Rudolf Besier.
Silver, whose gentle servant-girl, Ann
Sterling Mackinlay's Vocal Kecital, 3. 15, Æolian Hall.
>
same case.
Busoni, was admirable in tone and techy from the outset for the stage, though, to Kipps. The simple soul of this shop-
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
SUN. Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall.
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
Sunday League Concert, 7, Queen's Hall.
Hon. Royal College of Music, Patron's Fund Concert, 8, Bochstein
Hall.
Walenn Quartet, 8. 15, Æolinn Hall.
Turs. Gordon Granville's Vocal Recital, 3. 15. Æolian Hall,
Emil Sauer's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Queen's Hall.
Ella Správka's Matinée, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
WED. Madame Frickenha us's Concert, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Classical Concert Society, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Balfour Gardiner's Concert, 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
THURS. The Thursday Twelve o'Clocks, Æolian Hall.
Busoni's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Queen's Hall.
Franz von Vecrey's Violin Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Royal Choral Society, 8, Royal Albert Hall
Norman Wilks's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
FRI. The Missex Sutro's Recital. 3, Steinway Hall.
Paul Kochanski's Violin Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Smallwood Metcalfe Choir, 8. 10, Queen's Hall.
SAT.
Lamond's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Mozart Snciety, 3, Portman kooms,
Queen's Hall Orchestra, 3, Queen's Hall.
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American translation has a prefatory note “must keep itself independent of politics
by Prof. Michael Sadler, of which the of all kinds and from participation in political
opening sentence runs thus : This book | agitation, whether this is favourable or
CHANGING VIEWS IN EDUCATION (Education for
will be a landmark in the history of educa- inimical to our views of a State's functions ";
Citizenship; All the Children of All the People ; tion. ” It requires, therefore, a
a little
The Century and the School; A Good Citizen
but there are pages in which so strong a
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out as to arouse some doubts of his own
FICTION (The Matador of the Five Towns; Charity; appointing, while the English version of it
Commoners' Rights; In Accordance with the Evi.
power to maintain so impartial a position.
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dence; Up to Perrin's; The Shadow of Neeme)
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TRAVEL (Burgundy; Costumes, Traditions, and Songs
the Social Democrats of Germany as
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the Indian North-West Frontier)
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ANTHOLOGIES (In Praise of Oxford ; Das Oxforder lator-he may either endeavour to reproduce and religious feeling and by its class
Buch Deutscher Dichtung; An Anthology of a masterpiece of literature in a version of hatred," while he speaks with the warmest
Imaginative Prose). .
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SCIENCE-CAPT. CARTWRIGHT AND HIS LABRADOR
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CHEMICAL TABLES; SOCIETIES; MEETINGS NEXT uninflected tongue it is intolerable. Only or lessons learnt, but of direct observation
314-316 by an entire recasting of the mould can and individual thought.
Walford Davies's 'Peter Pan Quartet,
and has brought a mind singularly open
But, whatever their respective contribu-
to which he has added a new movement,
will be performed. Miss Johanne Stock-
to bear on current social problems. Mr. tions, the authors have provided a delight-
mart will take the pianoforte part in Bennett, thanks to a memory retentive ful entertainment-delightful despite its
Dvorák's delightful Quintet in A.
of details and an instinct for almost lack of a regular plot, for the idea behind
THE first of Mr. Balfour Gardiner's photographic description, has elaborated it and the retention of certain characters
Choral and Orchestral Concerts at Queen's studies of provincial life and manners, throughout secure just sufficient unity of
Hall will take place next Wednesday, when as they were to be noted in his youth, impression. Merely to watch the changes
the whole programme, with two exceptions, which convince by their actuality and of costumes and house-decorations as
will be devoted to new works by the follow. thoroughness. Both men think for them they appear in a single drawing-room
ing English composers: Bax, Grainger, Bell, selves, both have been labelled Socialists, during half a century is piquant enough ;
and the concert-giver.
both can indicate felicitously the attitude but we also see changes of taste, etiquette,
FRANZ VON VECSEY's performance of intellectual, moral, and artistic-of de conversational topics, domestic relations,
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at his second cades which we and they have outlived.
and the dramatists have contrived mar-
recital at Bechstein Hall on Wednesday
vellously to get the tone of the three ages
evening was full of life and at times brilliancy; The stage attracts writers to-day, while they picture in turn. They are fortunate
but, although the pianoforte accompaniment they assimilate the confusing material also in their interpreters. Miss Haidée
was ably played by Mr. Richard Epstein, which confronts the student of the actual, Wright's old maid brings home to us
it is difficult to judge & violinist without
the colouring and support of an orchestra. if only as promising them a wider and more appealingly the pathos of useless self-
Vecsey's reading of the Tartini Trille du immediate hearing : Mr. Wells and Mr. sacrifice. This character might, we think,
Diable
Sonata was
very good indeed. Bennett have felt its fascination. But, have been put to better use, if she had
So also was Bach's Sonata in G minor for whereas the author of 'The Honeymoon been endowed with a
more intuitive
violin alone, but in time for he is young- has served his apprenticeship, his more sympathy for those on whom the door
he will interpret it with more feeling and emotional colleague suspects himself of
fuller understanding.
was closing as well as those who were
inability to adapt himself to a new knocking at it. She might also have been
Two foreign pianists have given recitals medium. So, though we have the spectacle used to bring the dates of the play
during the past ten days. M. Egon Petri's this week of both men trying their fortunes together in a less obvious manner-to
third and last recital took place at Bechstein in the theatre with a collaborator to perform, in fact, the part of the ideal and
third set of Liszt's * Années de Pélerinages. ' steady their efforts, they are not in the interested spectator. Miss Mary Jerrold
He has shown himself an artist of the first
Mr. Wells admits that the is an engagingly demure Victorian miss ;
rank. His tendency at times to hurry and credit for adapting his story of Kipps' and Mr. Þennis Eadie improves with
exaggerate the tone is unfortunate, especially for the Vaudeville belongs to Mr. Besier. each transformation of the character he
as all else is so good ; but time and experi- Mr. Bennett's share in the composition of portrays from early manhood to the age
ence will no doubt bring more restraint. the enchanting comedy which he and Mr. which lags superfluous on the scene.
On Monday evening M. Alexandre Siloti, Knoblauch have had presented at the
, a is
It must be stated regretfully that Mr.
recital at. Messrs. Novello's before the real quantity, for here we have no work Wells's conception of his humble hero is
London Chamber Concert Association. His founded on a novel, but a play designed not realized in Mr. Besier's rehandling of
rendering of Bach's 'Chaconne,' arranged by
nique, and his playing of other Bach move- be sure, it embodies familiar notions of assistant, so troubled by the fortune
ments, arranged by himself and one by the novelist, and is easily related with the which lifts him out of his natural sphere,
Szanto, was most artistic; there was nothing more ambitious of his achievements in
seems smothered on the stage in the
up to date either in the transcriptions or in fiction.
external trappings of the character. His
the interpretations. The Liszt Rhapsody,
“loud” clothes, his offensive table-
No. 12, was given with genuine Hungarian Mr. Bennett has always been successful manners, his accent, and his general
fire, but the pianist was less happy in in tracing the stereotyping influences of oafishness are forced into prominence,
Chopin's Ballade in a flat.
age on human nature, and in catching the and leave us no time to feel pity for his
habits of mind, modes of speech, and pre- loneliness and social embarrassments. The
occupations of periods of the more recent lad to whom our sympathies went out
past. He likes following his characters in the novel, because his vulgarity was
from childhood to senility ; he knows skin-deep and his real nature was sweet
what people were wearing, talking about, and clean, is reduced to the level of the
and feeling in the seventies and eighties. counterjumper of farce. In the absence
It is easy, then, to see who inspired the of the author's commentary all the values
scheme of the Royalty play. A family seem changed. We find ourselves laugh-
history, as this is, which ranges over fifty ing at Kipps's solecisms instead of smiling
over his ingenuousness.
ROYALTY. -Milestones. By Arnold Bennett
and Edward Knoblauch.
Only the love-scenes ring true, largely
VAUDEVILLE. —Kipps. By H. G. Wells and because of the delicate art of Miss Christine
Rudolf Besier.
Silver, whose gentle servant-girl, Ann
Sterling Mackinlay's Vocal Kecital, 3. 15, Æolian Hall.
>
same case.
Busoni, was admirable in tone and techy from the outset for the stage, though, to Kipps. The simple soul of this shop-
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
SUN. Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall.
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
Sunday League Concert, 7, Queen's Hall.
Hon. Royal College of Music, Patron's Fund Concert, 8, Bochstein
Hall.
Walenn Quartet, 8. 15, Æolinn Hall.
Turs. Gordon Granville's Vocal Recital, 3. 15. Æolian Hall,
Emil Sauer's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Queen's Hall.
Ella Správka's Matinée, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
WED. Madame Frickenha us's Concert, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Classical Concert Society, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Balfour Gardiner's Concert, 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
THURS. The Thursday Twelve o'Clocks, Æolian Hall.
Busoni's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Queen's Hall.
Franz von Vecrey's Violin Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Royal Choral Society, 8, Royal Albert Hall
Norman Wilks's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
FRI. The Missex Sutro's Recital. 3, Steinway Hall.
Paul Kochanski's Violin Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Smallwood Metcalfe Choir, 8. 10, Queen's Hall.
SAT.
Lamond's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Mozart Snciety, 3, Portman kooms,
Queen's Hall Orchestra, 3, Queen's Hall.
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American translation has a prefatory note “must keep itself independent of politics
by Prof. Michael Sadler, of which the of all kinds and from participation in political
opening sentence runs thus : This book | agitation, whether this is favourable or
CHANGING VIEWS IN EDUCATION (Education for
will be a landmark in the history of educa- inimical to our views of a State's functions ";
Citizenship; All the Children of All the People ; tion. ” It requires, therefore, a
a little
The Century and the School; A Good Citizen
but there are pages in which so strong a
Catechism for All Children)
courage to confess that Dr. Kerschen-
CHRISTIANITY IN EARLY BRITAIN ::
steiner's prize essay is somewhat dis: political bias on the Doctor's part peeps
out as to arouse some doubts of his own
FICTION (The Matador of the Five Towns; Charity; appointing, while the English version of it
Commoners' Rights; In Accordance with the Evi.
power to maintain so impartial a position.
is more so. Mr. Pressland, the translator, He writes, for instance, of the attitude of
dence; Up to Perrin's; The Shadow of Neeme)
tells us that
TRAVEL (Burgundy; Costumes, Traditions, and Songs
the Social Democrats of Germany as
of Savoy; In the Carpathians; Gun-Running and
the Indian North-West Frontier)
two courses are always open to a trans. distinguished by its want of national
ANTHOLOGIES (In Praise of Oxford ; Das Oxforder lator-he may either endeavour to reproduce and religious feeling and by its class
Buch Deutscher Dichtung; An Anthology of a masterpiece of literature in a version of hatred," while he speaks with the warmest
Imaginative Prose). .
PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Floreat Etona ; Harrow School equal literary merit, or he may attempt to admiration of the upper classes of his
Register)
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author's own way. ”
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III. ; Cardiff Records)
OUR LIBRARY TABLE (Mary Wollstonecraft; Things
proval of military service. In England
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ture ; Social Evolution and Political Theory; The he has adopted, is apt to be disastrous gain that co-operation of industrial organi-
National Insurance Act; Franciscan Essays;
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312 composition has a cumbrousness some-
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Mr. Smith has achieved that rare thing,
SCIENCE-CAPT. CARTWRIGHT AND HIS LABRADOR
inflection, but when reproduced in our
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