given; also interesting instances in Tschaï-
so much at home as in the scenes from
early Quaker history by which we know The Times of last Monday had an inter: Williams speaks of quintuple time
kowsky, Chopin, &c.
so much at home as in the scenes from
early Quaker history by which we know The Times of last Monday had an inter: Williams speaks of quintuple time
kowsky, Chopin, &c.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
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known. Dr. Round, with his customary
a fact which was more than once the means
vigour, was the first to make an onslaught
OUR LIBRARY TABLE,
of saving his life. Hitherto the fact of
on Mr. Clark's generally accredited theories; A History of the Church of St. Giles,
Browne's excommunication towards the
this he did in the pages of The Quarterly Northampton. By the Rev. R. M. Serjeant- end of his life has been strenuously denied.
Even Mr. Cater, his most recent bio-
Review as long ago as 1894. Dr. George (Northampton, Mark & Co. )—The
that “ the records at
Neilson followed up the same line of ancient borough of Northampton possesses Peterborough contain not the slightest
argument in his essay on The Motes in
four old parish churches, each of some
tissue of evidence of excommunication. "
Norman Scotland, which was issued in Sepulchre, St. Peter, and St. Giles. Of the
distinct interest, namely, All Saints, St.
Yet Mr. Serjeantson, after making
1898.
treated in a like spirit by Mr. Goddard already produced notable histories, and communication after repeated warnings.
The subject has been more recently first and third of these Mr. Serjeantson has thorough search, brought to light abundant
Orpen in his “ Ireland under the Normans. ' | also, in conjunction with Dr. Cox, of the
Great credit is at least due to Mrs. round church of St. Sepulchre. By the Mr. Serjeantson has also found Browne's
will at Somerset House, and printed
Armitage for painstaking industry in the production of a fourth volume, of some
it for the first time. So much that is new
collection of details throughout the whole 4:00 pages and profusely illustrated, Mr.
Serjeantson has worthily completed the
has now been discovered with regard to
of the British Isles, and especially for ecclesiastical annals of the town.
this remarkable, imperious, and changeful
schedules and other special information
The church of St. Giles lacks the peculiarly man, that the latter half of his life, as
in the appendixes.
interesting details belonging to the story of given by Dr. Jessopp in the Dictionary of
We hope that the influence of this last ahi Saints, the central churche let the town He died in Northampton
gaol, and was
of many books on castles will not prove the mediæval period ; nor does it possess the
buried at St. Giles's in 1633.
sufficient to secure the adoption of the special architectural attractions pertaining
The interesting architectural history of
French word motte, to describe what the both to St. Sepulchre's and St. Peter's. Never St. Giles's, with numerous illustrations, is
best of our antiquaries have been content theless, it has valuable municipal memories, contributed to the volume by Mr. A. Hamil-
to know as a
architectural details
“mote," a term which is whilst the
speak ton Thompson. Twelve pedigree sheets of
also of common use both in Scotland and plainly of the four great building periods, of important families closely connected with
unusually conscientious work of the seven-
St. Giles's give evidence of no small
Ireland. It is well
, for fear of confusion, teenth century, and of capable repairs and expenditure of time and trouble.
Eleven
to avoid “moot hill” or “moat” in de- improvements of a later date. Št. Giles's vicars, hitherto unrecorded, have been
scribing these hillocks, but there does not
was essentially the church of the townsmen.
added to the list of incumbents. Every
seem any reason for breaking away from Why it should have been thus selected it chapter is clearly the result of painstaking
“ mote. "
is not possible now to say with certainty.
research.
Although the late Mr. Clark has been All Saints, of mediæval days, had a much
larger nave. Mr. Serjeantson shrewdly
convicted of error in his general inter- suggests that St. Giles's—which stood just
THE BRUCE SETON SALE.
pretation of the word burh, and the outside the eastern boundary of the original
nature of the origin of many of our Anglo-Norman town walls-won favour
MESSRS. CHRISTIE sold Saturday and
castle-crowned earthworks, it should be with the burghers from the twofold fact that Monday last the following pictures and drawings
borne in mind that his two volumes on influence of the royal castle on the south, Stream, 2381.
it was far removed from the dominating belonging to Sir Bruce M. Seton :-
Pictures : A. Mauve, A Cow drinking at a
* The Mediæval Military Architecture in
J. L. E. Meissonier, Dante, 2831.
and from that of the powerful Cluniac Sir L. Alma Tadema, The Mirror, 3251. P. Graham,
England,' published in 1884, are still the priory of St. Andrew on the west. For Highland Mist, 3151. Sir E. Landseer, The Cat's-
standard work on England's old castles, several centuries the church or churchyard paw, 8191. Sir J. E. Millais, „The Proscribed
notwithstanding certain minor blemishes. continued to be the meeting-place of the Royalist, on panel, 91 in. by 71 in. , 2831. Şir
E. 'J. Poynter, Water-Babies, 294. Reynolds,
He was the first, in the columns of The town assembly, and also for the election of
Miss Kitty Fisher, a sketch, 3781.
Builder, and the best of our archæo-mayor, bailiffs, and other officers. The
Drawings : Israëls, Waiting for Father's
logical magazines, to put forth, on assemblies, especially those for the election
assemblies, especially those for the election Return, 1881. F. Dicksee, Coming from Church,
scientific and accurate lines, the plans riotous, notwithstanding their being held
of town officials, became so tumultuous and 991. 158. Birket Foster, On the Road to Market,
2151. Briton Rivière, A Game of Fox and Geese,
and details of mediæval fortresses, and to
on consecrated ground, that at last, in
give an impetus to a study that had 1488–9, they were prohibited by Act of
hitherto been neglected. Ali, therefore, Parliament, the burgesses at large were
concerned in the same field of operations deprived of their franchise, and the electors
Fine Art Gossip.
ought to feel grateful to Mr. G. T. Clark limited to a special body of forty-eight
for his initial and comprehensive work. persons. Henceforth the elections took
Nor are
THE exhibition of drawings by Mr.
sound
place in the town hall. Municipal elections
reasons wanting to in the naves of churches in medieval days far the most important show we have
R. Ihlee at the Carfax Gallery is by
show that the wholesale condemnation were fairly common throughout England. to deal with this week, displaying an
of the Anglo-Saxon defensive mound Mr. Serjeantson mentions the cases of
theory should not be too hastily assumed Grantham, Sandwich, Romsoy, and Lydd. in early years, has reached what may
artist of unusual power, who, while yet
to be correct in every instance. Moderating St. Mary's, Cambridge, is another well- well be the full maturity of his taleni.
arguments have been recently stated, known example.
It cannot be called a collection of sketches,
with much ability, by Mr. Harvey in his
In the thirteenth century the church of almost every one of the thirty-eight drawings
· Castles and Walled Towns of England,' of the name of Eva, who was of much repute well-considered work of art, combining in a
St. Giles became associated with an anchoress
of modest size being in its way a complete,
and far more mounds will have to be for sanctity ; she
commemorated
carefully trenched and tested before any annually by the religious of Canons Ashby, and vivacious rendering of contemporary
rare degree breadth of style with a close
one should presume to write ex cathedra An excellent summary of the lives led by life. Mr. Ihlee has an extraordinary gift for
as though the whole matter was definitely anchoresses secluded in cells attached to abstracting the essentially expressive element
settled in every instance.
churches-a subject usually much mis-
understood-and a general dissertation on
in grouping, individual movement, and,
An attractive and valuable feature of the whole question are supplied. In the perhaps less noticeably, but still con-
siderably, in character.
this work is the large series of plans, for strict ' Ancren Riwlo,' attributed to Bishop
which Mr. D. H. Montgomerie is re-
Poore of Salisbury (1217–29), objection is These little drawings are thus very excit.
sponsible. There are forty plates, and raised to the possession by anchoresses of ing-very close to a first-hand experience
the majority of them contain more than " Ye shall not possess any beast, my dear
one exception : fe: witness the actuality of the brawling
one plan. On the whole, this work cannot sisters, except only a cat. "
women in No. 20, Sabbath, or the uncon.
scious intimacy of No. 12, Conversation.
fail to be valuable as a book of refer- Another excursus of value sets_forth It is interesting to see in several earlier
ence, and we hope that Mrs. Armitage the life of that extraordinary man Robert drawings, such as No. 1, Le Célibataire,
will not feel hurt when we say, what Browne, the founder of the Brownists, who how the development of the artist's imagina-
to our mind is a genuine compliment, is claimed by the Congregationalists as the tive power has been aided by study of a
that it is worthy of a place on the first exponent of their views. He was a definitely histrionic art, with its full arma-
same shelf with Mr. Clark's pioneer member of a distinguished Rutland family, ment of rhetorical device. Mr. Sickert is
and highly connected through both parents, sometimes even closer to actuality and
volumes.
particularly with the Cecils of Burghley, 'familiarity of type than Mr. Ihlee, but has
1171.
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mand of movement which give the latter so simplified types, Nos. 28, 29, and 31, are
MUSIC
wide a range of subject-matter to draw upon the most important exhibitors in the fourth
THE thirteenth annual exhibition of Paterson's Gallery. Mr. Spurrier's portrait
exhibition of the Pencil Society at Mr.
the Women's International Art Club at (4) is more literal in its particularity, but
the Grafton Galleries, shows a decided gives evidence of an attempt to escape from
The Aristoxenian Theory of Musical
improvement in the general standard of
Rhythm. By C. F. Abdy Williams. (Cam-
the facile habits of illustration.
the work over any previous exhibition by
bridge University Press. Judging from
women artists which we have seen. There
the title of this volume, many musicians
MR. WILFRID BALL's water-colours of the
are no works of outstanding excellence, but New Forest district at the Fine-Art Society
might think that it was some learned com-
there is clearly a higher average of artistic
are somewhat trivial, but unpretending and
mentary on, or criticism of, an ancient theory
education than there used to be.
which could have little bearing on music
probably sincere. No. 85, A Glade near
of the present day. The writer, it is true,
Some of the foreign contributions to the Emery Down, is very much better in colour
present show, such as No. 72, Les Horten- than the others.
has made deep research, and displays much
sias, by Madame H. Amiard Oberteufer,
learning, but everything is explained in the
and if strange terms,
are the most successful examples of a The annual exhibition of the Royal simplest manner;
such "rhythmizomenon
moderate sufficiency of science united with Hibernian Academy opened last Monday,
taste, tact, and a healthy love of gaiety, and is, on the whole, more interesting than rhythmically," prove puzzling, they are
Miss Norna Labouchère's Still Life (11), that of last year. The works shown reach
explained when first mentioned, while after-
Miss Louise Picard's Fruit (127), and the a higher level of individual excellence,
wards, if necessary, the reader can refresh
water-colours of Miss Arabella Rankin though some familiar names, such as those
his memory by referring to the ‘Glossary
of Terms 'at the end of the book.
(247) and Mrs. Cayley Robinson (213) may of Mr. Lavery, Mr. Shannon, and Mr. Mark
Mr. Williams believes that ancient
be mentioned for similar qualities : while the Fisher, are missing from the catalogue.
prints of Miss Helen Wilson (179), Miss F. The two most important pictures are Mr. rhythmical theory has
message for
Molony, Miss Hester Frood, and Miss Mary Augustus John's portrait of Dr. Kuno modern musicians and lovers of music, and
Creighton (212) are creditable. In No. 1, Meyer, and Mr. William Orpen's nude study
the object of the book is to show his grounds
The Toilet, and No. 27, Portrait of a Lady, of a girl leaning from a couch, entitled for that belief. For instance, we read that
Miss Ethel Walker recovers her better form 'A Woman. ' Mr. John's portrait is regarded quintuple time was far more commonly used
of some years ago.
as the strongest thing he has yet done in this by the Greeks than by us, though there are
branch of art.
evidences that this beautiful form of rhythm is
In the show of the Royal Society of Painter-
again coming into vogue. ”
Etchers there is much good intention, but Other exhibitors include the President, This was the “Pæonic"
" or “ Cretic "
little creative power. The late Alphonse Mr. Dermod O'Brien, who shows a number species, and there were different forms of it.
Legros, having been a founder of the Society, of portraits, including one of the Earl of The ‘Hymn to Apollo' discovered at Delphi
is naturally represented by a group of works, Aberdeen in state robes, and another of in 1893 offers an actual Greek example,
and these are the most dignified feature of Sir Horace Plunkett; Mr. Sargent, whose words, melody, and rhythm,” and of the
the show. Of living artists, Mr. Robert Spanish Stable’ is a brilliant piece of very few known specimens of Greek music
Spence has for some time been the most execution ; Mr. Gerald Festus Kelly ; Mr. it is the most interesting. A few bars taken
vital exponent of etching in the Society, Hone; Mr. G. M. Lambert; Miss S. H. from Gevaert's ‘La Melopée Antique' are
but in Wagnerian legend he is not as yet Purser; and Mr. Leech.
given; also interesting instances in Tschaï-
so much at home as in the scenes from
early Quaker history by which we know The Times of last Monday had an inter: Williams speaks of quintuple time
kowsky, Chopin, &c. , are mentioned. Mr.
him. Mr. Woolliscroft Rhead (216, An esting tabulated statement showing the rise
“ again coming into vogue. ” But he cannot
Interesting Book) is another member who in the price of Corot's work, as exemplified
mean that it has not been used since the
seems capable of handling figure subjects; at the recent sale in Paris of M. Dollfus's Grecian period, for it is common enough in
but with this exception the best work collection. An extreme case was that of the folk-music of various countries.
is to be found in the landscapes of Mr. 'La Femme à la Perle,' which, having cost
Walter James (104), Sir Charles Holroyd originally 4,000 francs, was purchased by the theory of magnitudes with the practice of
(60), and M. Eugène Béjot (155). The new
authorities of the Louvre for 150,000 francs. Bach and Wagner. Aristoxenes speaks of
diploma of the Society by Mr. George Eve The same master's view of the gardens of the groups of many notes divided into parts, and
(118) is certainly a great improvement on
Académie de France was also bought for the thus becoming more easily understood,"
its predecessor.
Louvre for 32,000 francs, and Roybet's and there were signs showing such divisions.
Had the Italian Futurists at the Sack-Fillette au Poupard' was bought for the Haydn and Mozart divided by means of
ville Gallery given as much thought to Museum secured a version of Rubens's of welding phrases by his treatment of the
Luxembourg for 2,200 francs. The Brussels formal cadences; Bach, however, was fond
the painting of their pictures as they gave Calvary' by Delacroix for 1,750 francs; harmony,
to the preface and introduction to the cata-
logue, the show would better reward the for Daumier’s ‘Don Quixote and Sancho made use of similar means.
while other notable prices were 30,200 francs make his music acceptable
while short rhythmical figures
visitor. The Futurist movement, we take
There are, in
Asleep'; 16,000 francs for Courbet's “The fact, numerous references (with, in some
it, originated in literary circles, and these
paintings are rather a theoretic extension Evening Star' ("Le Retour des Champs ’).
Wave"; and 118,000 francs for Millet's The instances, illustrations) to composers from
than spontaneous development.
We
Bach onwards; and these in themselves are
enter into the point of view of the
A DARING theft has been committed interesting, apart from the Greek theory.
living Italian revolting against the uni-
We give
There are some pithy sentences.
versal homage to ancient art. We do not
at the Museum of Rheims, which has just
two:
think, however, that the programme set
been robbed of a gold bonbonnière decorated
with enamel, and a medallion of Louis XVI. , “ Handel drives his cadences home with every
forth is at all practicable in art, though
it may be feasible enough in literature, and
formerly the property of that monarch. harmonic device, while Bach uses harmony for
The fact that a number of precious stones
just the reverse process. "
what plausibility the explanation appears
And :
to have vanishes when the pictures are
and other jewelled articles in the same case
were left untouched points to the thief
approached.
The precise definition of the formal element,
being unscrupulous collector rather the want of rhythmical appeal to the mind, has
MR. E. T. REED's gift of humour is native
than the more usual sort of criminal.
caused a certain reaction in the popularity of
Mendelssohn's music amongst those who have
and spontaneous, owing, very little to the
hard work and painstaking patience with
THE death is announced of Mr. George learned to appreciate the more imaginative
Dunn, which took place from pneumonia on
methods of which Bach
which he has cultivated it. To compare
was the first great
his work with that of the great French
Tuesday at his house near Maidenhead.
exponent. "
Mr. Dunn was, since the death of Robert In the concluding page of the book Mr.
caricaturists is unwise. Sir F. C. Gould is
Proctor, perhaps the best English authority Williams speaks of the advantage we have
nearer the mark, but, though he has perhaps
on early printed books, of which, as well as over the ancients “in our power of com-
a greater fund of ideas, he is nothing like
early bindings and manuscripts, he leaves a bining several different rhythmical schemes
80 funny a draughtsman. The present
exhibition at the Dudley Galleries shows
very fine collection. He was also a collector of separately"; and of that power the use is
Mr. Reed at his best-a bubbling fountain
old silver, an astronomer, and a distinguished constantly increasing. A review rendering
of animal spirits.
photographer of the stars, and was remark. full justice to the author's work would
able in other ways, but his almost morbid occupy far more space than can be given to
MR. FRANK GILLETT, who in No. 23 harks inclination to self-effacement prevented his it here. Our notice, however, may serve
back unexpectedly to the manner of the achievements being so well known as they to call the attention of lovers of music, and
late Mr. Abbey in his better and earlier deserved to be,
especially rising composers, to it.
as
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years, contrasts the modes and manners
Musical Gossip.
and idioms of 1860, 1885, and 1912, and
DRAMA
shows how even enthusiastic reformers
An excellent performance was given of
turn conservative with the progress of
Bach's Mass in B minor at Queen's Hall on
years, is an enterprise exactly after Mr.
February 29th, by the Birmingham Festival TWO NOVELISTS IN THE THEATRE. Bennett's heart. Equally characteristic
Choral Society (about 300 voices) and the
of him is the thought running through the
London Symphony Orchestra, under the No two novelists find their names more piece of the inevitable antagonism of
able direction of Dr. G. R. Sinclair, the
often associated nowadays than Mr. Wells
Hereford Cathedral organist. The voices
and old. If the brainwork of
young
and Mr. Arnold Bennett.
were fresh and firm, and the ensemble was
Pedantic criti- the play is his, surely we may attribute
remarkably good. 'A striking feature of cism might deny them the title of artist: to Mr. Knoblauch the smooth working out
the performance was the heartiness and But as analysts of the life and thought of of the plan, the delightful completeness
their day, authors who have brought new of each little drama of love that occupies
displayed. The soloists were the Misses ideas into fiction and increased its range, the separate acts, and the touch of senti-
Ada Forrest and Phyllis Lett, and Messrs. they are among the pioneers of their craft. ment which reconciles us to the suggestions
Gervase Elwes and J. Campbell McInnes. Mr. Wells has rendered vocal hitherto of disillusion such a cycle of three genera-
At the Walenn Quartet Concert inarticulate classes of the community- tions must convey.
Monday evening in the Æolian Hall, Dr. 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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faithfully transferred to the boards. The
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a
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known. Dr. Round, with his customary
a fact which was more than once the means
vigour, was the first to make an onslaught
OUR LIBRARY TABLE,
of saving his life. Hitherto the fact of
on Mr. Clark's generally accredited theories; A History of the Church of St. Giles,
Browne's excommunication towards the
this he did in the pages of The Quarterly Northampton. By the Rev. R. M. Serjeant- end of his life has been strenuously denied.
Even Mr. Cater, his most recent bio-
Review as long ago as 1894. Dr. George (Northampton, Mark & Co. )—The
that “ the records at
Neilson followed up the same line of ancient borough of Northampton possesses Peterborough contain not the slightest
argument in his essay on The Motes in
four old parish churches, each of some
tissue of evidence of excommunication. "
Norman Scotland, which was issued in Sepulchre, St. Peter, and St. Giles. Of the
distinct interest, namely, All Saints, St.
Yet Mr. Serjeantson, after making
1898.
treated in a like spirit by Mr. Goddard already produced notable histories, and communication after repeated warnings.
The subject has been more recently first and third of these Mr. Serjeantson has thorough search, brought to light abundant
Orpen in his “ Ireland under the Normans. ' | also, in conjunction with Dr. Cox, of the
Great credit is at least due to Mrs. round church of St. Sepulchre. By the Mr. Serjeantson has also found Browne's
will at Somerset House, and printed
Armitage for painstaking industry in the production of a fourth volume, of some
it for the first time. So much that is new
collection of details throughout the whole 4:00 pages and profusely illustrated, Mr.
Serjeantson has worthily completed the
has now been discovered with regard to
of the British Isles, and especially for ecclesiastical annals of the town.
this remarkable, imperious, and changeful
schedules and other special information
The church of St. Giles lacks the peculiarly man, that the latter half of his life, as
in the appendixes.
interesting details belonging to the story of given by Dr. Jessopp in the Dictionary of
We hope that the influence of this last ahi Saints, the central churche let the town He died in Northampton
gaol, and was
of many books on castles will not prove the mediæval period ; nor does it possess the
buried at St. Giles's in 1633.
sufficient to secure the adoption of the special architectural attractions pertaining
The interesting architectural history of
French word motte, to describe what the both to St. Sepulchre's and St. Peter's. Never St. Giles's, with numerous illustrations, is
best of our antiquaries have been content theless, it has valuable municipal memories, contributed to the volume by Mr. A. Hamil-
to know as a
architectural details
“mote," a term which is whilst the
speak ton Thompson. Twelve pedigree sheets of
also of common use both in Scotland and plainly of the four great building periods, of important families closely connected with
unusually conscientious work of the seven-
St. Giles's give evidence of no small
Ireland. It is well
, for fear of confusion, teenth century, and of capable repairs and expenditure of time and trouble.
Eleven
to avoid “moot hill” or “moat” in de- improvements of a later date. Št. Giles's vicars, hitherto unrecorded, have been
scribing these hillocks, but there does not
was essentially the church of the townsmen.
added to the list of incumbents. Every
seem any reason for breaking away from Why it should have been thus selected it chapter is clearly the result of painstaking
“ mote. "
is not possible now to say with certainty.
research.
Although the late Mr. Clark has been All Saints, of mediæval days, had a much
larger nave. Mr. Serjeantson shrewdly
convicted of error in his general inter- suggests that St. Giles's—which stood just
THE BRUCE SETON SALE.
pretation of the word burh, and the outside the eastern boundary of the original
nature of the origin of many of our Anglo-Norman town walls-won favour
MESSRS. CHRISTIE sold Saturday and
castle-crowned earthworks, it should be with the burghers from the twofold fact that Monday last the following pictures and drawings
borne in mind that his two volumes on influence of the royal castle on the south, Stream, 2381.
it was far removed from the dominating belonging to Sir Bruce M. Seton :-
Pictures : A. Mauve, A Cow drinking at a
* The Mediæval Military Architecture in
J. L. E. Meissonier, Dante, 2831.
and from that of the powerful Cluniac Sir L. Alma Tadema, The Mirror, 3251. P. Graham,
England,' published in 1884, are still the priory of St. Andrew on the west. For Highland Mist, 3151. Sir E. Landseer, The Cat's-
standard work on England's old castles, several centuries the church or churchyard paw, 8191. Sir J. E. Millais, „The Proscribed
notwithstanding certain minor blemishes. continued to be the meeting-place of the Royalist, on panel, 91 in. by 71 in. , 2831. Şir
E. 'J. Poynter, Water-Babies, 294. Reynolds,
He was the first, in the columns of The town assembly, and also for the election of
Miss Kitty Fisher, a sketch, 3781.
Builder, and the best of our archæo-mayor, bailiffs, and other officers. The
Drawings : Israëls, Waiting for Father's
logical magazines, to put forth, on assemblies, especially those for the election
assemblies, especially those for the election Return, 1881. F. Dicksee, Coming from Church,
scientific and accurate lines, the plans riotous, notwithstanding their being held
of town officials, became so tumultuous and 991. 158. Birket Foster, On the Road to Market,
2151. Briton Rivière, A Game of Fox and Geese,
and details of mediæval fortresses, and to
on consecrated ground, that at last, in
give an impetus to a study that had 1488–9, they were prohibited by Act of
hitherto been neglected. Ali, therefore, Parliament, the burgesses at large were
concerned in the same field of operations deprived of their franchise, and the electors
Fine Art Gossip.
ought to feel grateful to Mr. G. T. Clark limited to a special body of forty-eight
for his initial and comprehensive work. persons. Henceforth the elections took
Nor are
THE exhibition of drawings by Mr.
sound
place in the town hall. Municipal elections
reasons wanting to in the naves of churches in medieval days far the most important show we have
R. Ihlee at the Carfax Gallery is by
show that the wholesale condemnation were fairly common throughout England. to deal with this week, displaying an
of the Anglo-Saxon defensive mound Mr. Serjeantson mentions the cases of
theory should not be too hastily assumed Grantham, Sandwich, Romsoy, and Lydd. in early years, has reached what may
artist of unusual power, who, while yet
to be correct in every instance. Moderating St. Mary's, Cambridge, is another well- well be the full maturity of his taleni.
arguments have been recently stated, known example.
It cannot be called a collection of sketches,
with much ability, by Mr. Harvey in his
In the thirteenth century the church of almost every one of the thirty-eight drawings
· Castles and Walled Towns of England,' of the name of Eva, who was of much repute well-considered work of art, combining in a
St. Giles became associated with an anchoress
of modest size being in its way a complete,
and far more mounds will have to be for sanctity ; she
commemorated
carefully trenched and tested before any annually by the religious of Canons Ashby, and vivacious rendering of contemporary
rare degree breadth of style with a close
one should presume to write ex cathedra An excellent summary of the lives led by life. Mr. Ihlee has an extraordinary gift for
as though the whole matter was definitely anchoresses secluded in cells attached to abstracting the essentially expressive element
settled in every instance.
churches-a subject usually much mis-
understood-and a general dissertation on
in grouping, individual movement, and,
An attractive and valuable feature of the whole question are supplied. In the perhaps less noticeably, but still con-
siderably, in character.
this work is the large series of plans, for strict ' Ancren Riwlo,' attributed to Bishop
which Mr. D. H. Montgomerie is re-
Poore of Salisbury (1217–29), objection is These little drawings are thus very excit.
sponsible. There are forty plates, and raised to the possession by anchoresses of ing-very close to a first-hand experience
the majority of them contain more than " Ye shall not possess any beast, my dear
one exception : fe: witness the actuality of the brawling
one plan. On the whole, this work cannot sisters, except only a cat. "
women in No. 20, Sabbath, or the uncon.
scious intimacy of No. 12, Conversation.
fail to be valuable as a book of refer- Another excursus of value sets_forth It is interesting to see in several earlier
ence, and we hope that Mrs. Armitage the life of that extraordinary man Robert drawings, such as No. 1, Le Célibataire,
will not feel hurt when we say, what Browne, the founder of the Brownists, who how the development of the artist's imagina-
to our mind is a genuine compliment, is claimed by the Congregationalists as the tive power has been aided by study of a
that it is worthy of a place on the first exponent of their views. He was a definitely histrionic art, with its full arma-
same shelf with Mr. Clark's pioneer member of a distinguished Rutland family, ment of rhetorical device. Mr. Sickert is
and highly connected through both parents, sometimes even closer to actuality and
volumes.
particularly with the Cecils of Burghley, 'familiarity of type than Mr. Ihlee, but has
1171.
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mand of movement which give the latter so simplified types, Nos. 28, 29, and 31, are
MUSIC
wide a range of subject-matter to draw upon the most important exhibitors in the fourth
THE thirteenth annual exhibition of Paterson's Gallery. Mr. Spurrier's portrait
exhibition of the Pencil Society at Mr.
the Women's International Art Club at (4) is more literal in its particularity, but
the Grafton Galleries, shows a decided gives evidence of an attempt to escape from
The Aristoxenian Theory of Musical
improvement in the general standard of
Rhythm. By C. F. Abdy Williams. (Cam-
the facile habits of illustration.
the work over any previous exhibition by
bridge University Press. Judging from
women artists which we have seen. There
the title of this volume, many musicians
MR. WILFRID BALL's water-colours of the
are no works of outstanding excellence, but New Forest district at the Fine-Art Society
might think that it was some learned com-
there is clearly a higher average of artistic
are somewhat trivial, but unpretending and
mentary on, or criticism of, an ancient theory
education than there used to be.
which could have little bearing on music
probably sincere. No. 85, A Glade near
of the present day. The writer, it is true,
Some of the foreign contributions to the Emery Down, is very much better in colour
present show, such as No. 72, Les Horten- than the others.
has made deep research, and displays much
sias, by Madame H. Amiard Oberteufer,
learning, but everything is explained in the
and if strange terms,
are the most successful examples of a The annual exhibition of the Royal simplest manner;
such "rhythmizomenon
moderate sufficiency of science united with Hibernian Academy opened last Monday,
taste, tact, and a healthy love of gaiety, and is, on the whole, more interesting than rhythmically," prove puzzling, they are
Miss Norna Labouchère's Still Life (11), that of last year. The works shown reach
explained when first mentioned, while after-
Miss Louise Picard's Fruit (127), and the a higher level of individual excellence,
wards, if necessary, the reader can refresh
water-colours of Miss Arabella Rankin though some familiar names, such as those
his memory by referring to the ‘Glossary
of Terms 'at the end of the book.
(247) and Mrs. Cayley Robinson (213) may of Mr. Lavery, Mr. Shannon, and Mr. Mark
Mr. Williams believes that ancient
be mentioned for similar qualities : while the Fisher, are missing from the catalogue.
prints of Miss Helen Wilson (179), Miss F. The two most important pictures are Mr. rhythmical theory has
message for
Molony, Miss Hester Frood, and Miss Mary Augustus John's portrait of Dr. Kuno modern musicians and lovers of music, and
Creighton (212) are creditable. In No. 1, Meyer, and Mr. William Orpen's nude study
the object of the book is to show his grounds
The Toilet, and No. 27, Portrait of a Lady, of a girl leaning from a couch, entitled for that belief. For instance, we read that
Miss Ethel Walker recovers her better form 'A Woman. ' Mr. John's portrait is regarded quintuple time was far more commonly used
of some years ago.
as the strongest thing he has yet done in this by the Greeks than by us, though there are
branch of art.
evidences that this beautiful form of rhythm is
In the show of the Royal Society of Painter-
again coming into vogue. ”
Etchers there is much good intention, but Other exhibitors include the President, This was the “Pæonic"
" or “ Cretic "
little creative power. The late Alphonse Mr. Dermod O'Brien, who shows a number species, and there were different forms of it.
Legros, having been a founder of the Society, of portraits, including one of the Earl of The ‘Hymn to Apollo' discovered at Delphi
is naturally represented by a group of works, Aberdeen in state robes, and another of in 1893 offers an actual Greek example,
and these are the most dignified feature of Sir Horace Plunkett; Mr. Sargent, whose words, melody, and rhythm,” and of the
the show. Of living artists, Mr. Robert Spanish Stable’ is a brilliant piece of very few known specimens of Greek music
Spence has for some time been the most execution ; Mr. Gerald Festus Kelly ; Mr. it is the most interesting. A few bars taken
vital exponent of etching in the Society, Hone; Mr. G. M. Lambert; Miss S. H. from Gevaert's ‘La Melopée Antique' are
but in Wagnerian legend he is not as yet Purser; and Mr. Leech.
given; also interesting instances in Tschaï-
so much at home as in the scenes from
early Quaker history by which we know The Times of last Monday had an inter: Williams speaks of quintuple time
kowsky, Chopin, &c. , are mentioned. Mr.
him. Mr. Woolliscroft Rhead (216, An esting tabulated statement showing the rise
“ again coming into vogue. ” But he cannot
Interesting Book) is another member who in the price of Corot's work, as exemplified
mean that it has not been used since the
seems capable of handling figure subjects; at the recent sale in Paris of M. Dollfus's Grecian period, for it is common enough in
but with this exception the best work collection. An extreme case was that of the folk-music of various countries.
is to be found in the landscapes of Mr. 'La Femme à la Perle,' which, having cost
Walter James (104), Sir Charles Holroyd originally 4,000 francs, was purchased by the theory of magnitudes with the practice of
(60), and M. Eugène Béjot (155). The new
authorities of the Louvre for 150,000 francs. Bach and Wagner. Aristoxenes speaks of
diploma of the Society by Mr. George Eve The same master's view of the gardens of the groups of many notes divided into parts, and
(118) is certainly a great improvement on
Académie de France was also bought for the thus becoming more easily understood,"
its predecessor.
Louvre for 32,000 francs, and Roybet's and there were signs showing such divisions.
Had the Italian Futurists at the Sack-Fillette au Poupard' was bought for the Haydn and Mozart divided by means of
ville Gallery given as much thought to Museum secured a version of Rubens's of welding phrases by his treatment of the
Luxembourg for 2,200 francs. The Brussels formal cadences; Bach, however, was fond
the painting of their pictures as they gave Calvary' by Delacroix for 1,750 francs; harmony,
to the preface and introduction to the cata-
logue, the show would better reward the for Daumier’s ‘Don Quixote and Sancho made use of similar means.
while other notable prices were 30,200 francs make his music acceptable
while short rhythmical figures
visitor. The Futurist movement, we take
There are, in
Asleep'; 16,000 francs for Courbet's “The fact, numerous references (with, in some
it, originated in literary circles, and these
paintings are rather a theoretic extension Evening Star' ("Le Retour des Champs ’).
Wave"; and 118,000 francs for Millet's The instances, illustrations) to composers from
than spontaneous development.
We
Bach onwards; and these in themselves are
enter into the point of view of the
A DARING theft has been committed interesting, apart from the Greek theory.
living Italian revolting against the uni-
We give
There are some pithy sentences.
versal homage to ancient art. We do not
at the Museum of Rheims, which has just
two:
think, however, that the programme set
been robbed of a gold bonbonnière decorated
with enamel, and a medallion of Louis XVI. , “ Handel drives his cadences home with every
forth is at all practicable in art, though
it may be feasible enough in literature, and
formerly the property of that monarch. harmonic device, while Bach uses harmony for
The fact that a number of precious stones
just the reverse process. "
what plausibility the explanation appears
And :
to have vanishes when the pictures are
and other jewelled articles in the same case
were left untouched points to the thief
approached.
The precise definition of the formal element,
being unscrupulous collector rather the want of rhythmical appeal to the mind, has
MR. E. T. REED's gift of humour is native
than the more usual sort of criminal.
caused a certain reaction in the popularity of
Mendelssohn's music amongst those who have
and spontaneous, owing, very little to the
hard work and painstaking patience with
THE death is announced of Mr. George learned to appreciate the more imaginative
Dunn, which took place from pneumonia on
methods of which Bach
which he has cultivated it. To compare
was the first great
his work with that of the great French
Tuesday at his house near Maidenhead.
exponent. "
Mr. Dunn was, since the death of Robert In the concluding page of the book Mr.
caricaturists is unwise. Sir F. C. Gould is
Proctor, perhaps the best English authority Williams speaks of the advantage we have
nearer the mark, but, though he has perhaps
on early printed books, of which, as well as over the ancients “in our power of com-
a greater fund of ideas, he is nothing like
early bindings and manuscripts, he leaves a bining several different rhythmical schemes
80 funny a draughtsman. The present
exhibition at the Dudley Galleries shows
very fine collection. He was also a collector of separately"; and of that power the use is
Mr. Reed at his best-a bubbling fountain
old silver, an astronomer, and a distinguished constantly increasing. A review rendering
of animal spirits.
photographer of the stars, and was remark. full justice to the author's work would
able in other ways, but his almost morbid occupy far more space than can be given to
MR. FRANK GILLETT, who in No. 23 harks inclination to self-effacement prevented his it here. Our notice, however, may serve
back unexpectedly to the manner of the achievements being so well known as they to call the attention of lovers of music, and
late Mr. Abbey in his better and earlier deserved to be,
especially rising composers, to it.
as
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years, contrasts the modes and manners
Musical Gossip.
and idioms of 1860, 1885, and 1912, and
DRAMA
shows how even enthusiastic reformers
An excellent performance was given of
turn conservative with the progress of
Bach's Mass in B minor at Queen's Hall on
years, is an enterprise exactly after Mr.
February 29th, by the Birmingham Festival TWO NOVELISTS IN THE THEATRE. Bennett's heart. Equally characteristic
Choral Society (about 300 voices) and the
of him is the thought running through the
London Symphony Orchestra, under the No two novelists find their names more piece of the inevitable antagonism of
able direction of Dr. G. R. Sinclair, the
often associated nowadays than Mr. Wells
Hereford Cathedral organist. The voices
and old. If the brainwork of
young
and Mr. Arnold Bennett.
were fresh and firm, and the ensemble was
Pedantic criti- the play is his, surely we may attribute
remarkably good. 'A striking feature of cism might deny them the title of artist: to Mr. Knoblauch the smooth working out
the performance was the heartiness and But as analysts of the life and thought of of the plan, the delightful completeness
their day, authors who have brought new of each little drama of love that occupies
displayed. The soloists were the Misses ideas into fiction and increased its range, the separate acts, and the touch of senti-
Ada Forrest and Phyllis Lett, and Messrs. they are among the pioneers of their craft. ment which reconciles us to the suggestions
Gervase Elwes and J. Campbell McInnes. Mr. Wells has rendered vocal hitherto of disillusion such a cycle of three genera-
At the Walenn Quartet Concert inarticulate classes of the community- tions must convey.
Monday evening in the Æolian Hall, Dr. 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.
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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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faithfully transferred to the boards. The
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