No More Learning

A duiker was infected with a human strain
of heating and ventilation in general use in
of T'. gambiense by feeding infected G. palpalis
Canada for large buildings, and a description time and attention of astronomers during
drifts that have occupied so much of the
upon it.
of the nature of the demand for steam and current
for University purposes, were followed by notes recent years occurs in Mr. George Peel's
as to some of the problems arising in the design "The Future of England,' reviewed by us
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. Jan. 25. - Dr.
and construction of underground piping systems
on December 16th, 1911. On p. 39 the
C. H. Read, President, in the chair. —Lieut. -Col.
for steam and hot water.
author writes :
Hawley read the ' Report on the Excavations in
Old Sarum in 1911. '
According to modern astronomy, the sky,
Work during the season was confined to com-
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
as far as we can observe it, is filled by two currents
pleting the excavation of the castle area. The
Mox. Royal Academy, 4. -'Architectural Drawing and Illustration :
of worlds, of like chemical constitution and probe
results were in marked contrast to those of other
Villars d. Honecourt, Prof. R. T. Blomfield.
ably of like origin, moving in opposite direc-
years, as but few remains of masonry were dis-
London Institution, 6. –The Evolution of England. ' Prof. tions through space. "
A. F. Pollard.
covered. But the work has been interesting and Royal Institution, 5. -General Meeting
Though not stated in the precise language of
instructive, and has shown that the principal
Society of Engineers, 7. 30. -Presidential Address.
Aristotelian, 8 - The Relation of Willing to Cognition,' Prof.
buildings lay to the north of the castle site.
science, the root of the matter is here, and it
In
G. Dawes Hicks.
the south-west portion of the area was situated
Institute of British Architects, 8. -President's Address to is a mitigation of the intellectual isolation
Students.
the Hall, of which it was hoped to recover the Society of Arts, 8. —'The Meat Industry,' Lecture I. , Mr. L. M.
of the astronomer to find that such discoveries
plan, but unfortunately nothing now remained
Douglas. (Captor Lecture. )
are known to, and their importance appre-
TUES. Royal Institution, 3. - The Study of Genetics,' Lecture IV. ,
except the foundation and a few courses of the
Prof. W. Bateson.
ciated by, educated people whose pursuits
south wall, and a short piece of wall returning from
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. -The Water-Supply of the
Witwatersrand,' Mr. D. O. Leitch; 'Investigatious relating
are far removed from his own.
it on the north-west.
It should,
to the Yield of a Catchmont-Aren in Cape Colony. ' Mr. E. C.
Attention was next directed to a depression
Bartlett
perhaps, be emphasized that the star-drifts
in the centre of this northern portion of the area.
Anthropological Institute, 8. 15 - The Kuyak in North- referred to are movements of our nearer
Western Kurope,'
Mr. D. Mac Ritchie.
This proved to be another well, but the sinking
Zoological, 8 30 - Report on the benths which occurred in neighbours in the stellar universe, and that
had never been completed. Towards the end
the Zoological Gardens during 1911,' Mr. A. G. Plimmer:
of the season it was decided to search the sides
we are not yet able to say whether the more
on Experimental Pheasant Breeding, Mrs. & Haig
Mendelian Sxperiments on Fowls,' Mr. J. T.
of this well for the old ground level. It was
Oupniogham; 'A Further Collection of Mammals from
distant stars forming the Milky Way par.
found 17 ft. below the surface, and consisted of
Egypt and Stuai," Mr. J. Lowla Bophoto ; "On
the Palring of ticipate in these movements. The existence
the gravel which caps the top of the Castle Hill. WED. Archeological Institute, 4. 30:- The Original Drawings for the of a third drift, consisting of stars more
Palace of Whitehall, attributed to Inigo Jones,' r. J. A.
Some fragments of Roman pottery and three
Gotch.
distant than those constituting the two
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Some
course.
are
some
corners,
are
recognized drifts, has, however, been sus-
On p. 170, in a chapter devoted to
pected.
'Current Practice,' appears the following:
In view of Dr. Allen Harker's lecture on
FINE ARTS
“One of the most remarkable innovations in
* High Temperatures 'at the Royal Institu-
building economics of recent years has been the
tion next Friday, arrangements have been
introduction of artificial stones. This has proved
made for a special electric current to be
of immense benefit, because these materials are
laid on from Deptford. It is expected that
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
moulded, not carved, obviously a much cheaper
this will develope something approaching a
process. Moreover, they are uniform in character
temperature of 3600° C. , the highest yet mann) is a companion volume to 'Baroque tooling may be utilised to give the finishing
Romanesque Architecture in France (Heine- and appearance. . . . Where the ultra-smoothness
available for experimental purposes.
Architecture in Italy,' by Signor Ricci, touch.
A CORRESPONDENT writes :-
Director of Italian Fine Arts, reviewed in
"The lunar halo as a sky barometer suggests these pages last week. Dr. Julius Baum | What would William Morris have said of
that observers should also note the appearance is responsible for this valuable monograph on such teaching as this? Much that Mr.
of a corona and tinted clouds about the moon, French Romanesque, though it cannot be Rothery writes on current practice is en-
with the view of recording the weather conditions considered as more than an Introduction to lightened, yet he seems to yield unduly to
during the succeeding one or two days. I am
convinced from my own personal experience that
the fine views which he has brought together. the dictates of fashion. The term “ingle
such natural phenomena enable one in time It consists of a condensed historical survey, nook," applied to a fireplace more often
to become something of an expert in predicting with sufficient reference to contemporary which, it is to be hoped, has nearly run its
than not, refers to a current affectation
the weather immediately following the
work in other countries to allow the un-
vividly tinted clouds near the moon on January informed reader to “ place ” the period and
The farmhouse open fire, with its
26th were succeeded in the course of the next
twenty-four hours by the keenest frost of the
the examples discussed.
cavernous depth, its tiny seat, and smoke-
The development
present winter. ”
and connexion between architecture and
stained walls, is a thing apart, delightful
the
sculpture treated in
detail. in its original setting. To break up
MESSRS. CONSTABLE & Co. , assisted by a
Romanesque sculpture in France is so far ground plan of a modern house, with its
strong editorial committee, will begin the
publication in April next of a quarterly superior to that of neighbouring countries totally different requirements, in order to
that the subsequent triumphal progress of
obtain a sham recess, putting the actual
scientific review, to be entitled Bedrock.
fire in a further tiny recess, is an unworthy
thirteenth-century achievement is fore-
The review will be devoted to the full
shadowed. The influence of French sculp- expedient. Instead of encouraging deplor-
discussion of such subjects as the effect on
the race of native and foreign disease, of that there were important groups in France,
ture abroad does not suggest on the surface able tendencies such as this, Mr. Rothery
would be better advised in writing of the
intemperance, of city life and luxury ; the
fitness of women for government; the real Dr. Baum writes of six important groups,
rich and varied in their own developments. correct position of the fireplace in regard to
the doors and windows, and in emphasizing
nature of the psychological and physio-
some inspired by the antique, others by
the necessity of making flues larger, and
logical difference between sexes, races, and
classes ; the present relation of science former is most instructive, showing, as it
early Christian art; the influence of the taking the chimneys higher above the roof
in more generously built stacks, thus avoid-
to religion ; and theories concerning evolution does, the direct connexion between thiring the actual discomfort of draughts,
and heredity.
teenth-century Gothic sculpture and that smoky chimneys, and cosy
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. hope to publish of Greece. This applies in a less noticeable
next Friday a new edition, thoroughly degree to the development of the actual plans
revised and largely rewritten, of Prof. and sections of Romanesque buildings.
Wilhelm Ostwald's Outlines of General Many of these are given in the text-indeed,
Chemistry. ' The book has been translated such illustrations essential to the
ARCHÆOLOGICAL NOTES.
by Dr. W. W. Taylor.
description and understanding of the
IN the current number of the Revue
DR. F. M. SANDWITH, the Gresham Pro- subject; but a serious defect we notice here Archéologique
M. Adolphe J. Reinach gives
fessor of Physic, will deliver at the City of impossible to grasp the true significance of Egypt during the last two years, excluding
an excellent summary of excavations in
London School four lectures on Sleeping
a plan without knowing whether the span of therefrom the work directly performed by
Sickness. ' On Tuesday, February 13th, he
a church is a dozen feet or five times that
will speak on 'The Tsetse Fly Disease of
the Service des Antiquités, which he thinks
Animals and the Early History of Sleeping
number.
is sufficiently described in Sir Gaston
Sickness'; on Wednesday on How Sleeping
Following the Introduction is a Biblio- Maspero's periodical reports to the Académie
Sickness is Conveyed Man';
on graphy, in which it is significant that the des Inscriptions. The excavation of the
Thursday on What We Know To-day most important works are by German greatest historical importance is that
about Sleeping Sickness'; and on Friday archæologists. Then come the plates, and carried out by Dr. G. Reisner at Gizeh.
he will show lantern - slides which
illustrate after the plates the list of illustrations in Here he found, as M. Reinach reminds us,
the previous lectures,
alphabetical order, with a few words of four beautifully carved bas-reliefs in dark-
description or criticism by the editor. It green slate with the figure of King Mycerinus
THE NEW LIBRARY at the Horniman is a pity that in order to obtain the fine of the Fourth Dynasty standing, between
Museum and Library, Forest Hill, will be photographic reproductions it appears to be the goddess Hathor and the divinities of
open for public use from to-day. The necessary to print upon such highly glazed different nomes.
library is a Students' Reference Library of and ponderous paper.
These give the earliest
examples of the emblems of the four nomes
recent and standard works on anthropology,
in question, and comprise the sistrum for
zoology, and botany in their several depart-
ments, supplemented by the journals and
Chimneypieces and Ingle Nooks: their | Diospolis Parva, the hare for Hermopolis,
the jackal for Cynopolis, and a goddess for
other periodical publications of learned Design and Ornamentation (Werner Laurie)
societies
is the second
Thebes. On the same site were found a
concerned
with these studies.
volume of the
There is also a small collection of recent
Decoration Series, to which Mr. Guy
diorite bowl with the name of Sneferu of the
same dynasty and two others in silex with
works in physics, chemistry, and geology, Cadogan. Rothery also contributed the first,
selected with special reference to the require that work, so in this, the author covers a
on •Ceilings and their Decoration. ' As in
the names of Hotep-sekhmui and Ra-neb,
who "should probably be assigned to the
ments of students of biology.
pædias, dictionaries, bibliographies,
and great deal of ground, the entire field
passing position gives colour to the belief formed on
Second. The finding of these bowls in juxta-
similar works of reference are provided on
under review. The investigation is thorough; other
grounds that the interval between the
the historical chapters are interesting, and
the account of the beginning and early
First Dynasty and the Pyramid-Builders
THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL EXAMINA. development of the fireplace is an original
was not so long as has been thought. Many
BOARD have fixed the dates, for work of value on the archæological side.
of the pieces in question have, as M. Reinach
the examination for the National Diploma The author appears to have visited, in many
says, been removed to the Museum at Boston,
in Agriculture, which will be held at the countries, the examples he writes about';
which defrayed part of the cost of Dr.
University, Loeds, from April 20th to 26th and, although his style d933 nt suziszt t'ia Reisner's excavations, and it is a great
next,
accomplished scholar, he is not without pity that arrangements cannot be made
Forms of application may be obtained scholarly equipment. The description of
for the immediate publication of such finds.
from the Secretary, Royal Agricultural fireplaces, particularly those of which illus- In the Journal of the last-named Society
Society of England, 16, Bedford Square, trations are not given, bulks large, and is for January there appears a paper by Prof,
London, W. C. , or from the Secretary, somewhat tedious reading. The author has Lawrence Mills on Yasna XXX. published
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot. not the gift of illuminating the present-day by him in the “Sacred Books of the East. ”
land, 3, George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh, and problems of the architect or the designer He claims this chapter as the earliest docu-
must be returned duly filled up not later ! by references to artistic examples of the ment of Persian religious literature in which
than Friday, March 1st.
past.
the doctrine of Dualism is distinctly stated,
to
“ House
open shelves.
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and the verses, of which he offers a new were written. These range from September trator of that school of French Realism
translation, certainly seem to bear out his 12th, 471 B. C. , to February 10th, 410 b. c. , which occupies itself with a definitely rovo-
argument. They state with fair distinctness and for two of the three remaining, he lutionary criticism of society, he is tolerably
the existence of the two principles of good suggests a probable date between these effective, but most artistic in the slightly
and evil acting independently and in opposi. figures. The concordance of the Baby- less brutal, but still biting satire of the
tion, since the beginning. What they do lonian with the Julian dates he obtains series of bourgeois portraits entitled Un
not do is to indicate whether, in the opinion through a passage in Censorinus. If M. Roman’ (67–80).
Madame Maxillaire a
of their author or compiler, this state of Pognon's conclusions be accepted, as seems un Bel Appartement' (72) is perfect in its
affairs is destined to last for ever, or whether likely, he will have accomplished a great observation, as is also Madame Garniture
the benevolent principle is to triumph feat in chronology,
est très liée avec les Maxillaires' (71).
at the last. This is of great importance for In the same Comptes Rendus M. Holleaux
the comparative study of religions, and it
THE drawings in brown wash which con-
announces the discovery at Delos of a stitute the principal feature of Mr. Elliott
is to be hoped that some day Prof. Mills, senatus consultum dated `166 or 165 B. C. , Seabrooke's work at the Carfax Gallery
or some other Avestic scholar, will be able settling a dispute between the High Priest display extraordinary accomplishment for
to enlighten us on the point. He gives reason
of Serapis on that island and some Athenian
for thinking that the Gathas were recited colonists. M. Holleaux promises to give Cotman and the early works of Turner
young an artist. Comparisons with
in a living language which ceased to be later the full text, with a commentary, of this naturally suggest themselves. As an oil
spoken about two centuries before the earliest decree.
painter he does not reach the same perfec-
Achæmenian inscription, and this enables
him to put them earlier than the mean
The current number of the Annals of tion, or indeed quite succeed in using his
date of 800 B. C. It also appears from his Archæology, issued by the University of material with any clear idea of the function
of colour in a design. Yet, technically,
remarks that the really characteristic feature Liverpool, contains a paper by Prof. Sayce
of the oldest Persian religion was its con-
giving an interesting reconstruction of the No. 4, “Rainsbarrow, is
is a promising
sistent deification of abstract ideas, which history of the Ethiopian Empire at Meroë, foundation if the artist should ever have
does not seem to occur again in the history where the writer was digging last year with the colourist's inspiration necessary to build
It shows a delicate hand and an
of religions until the rise of Gnosticism in Prof. Garstang. According to him, a king upon it.
the early Christian centuries.
called Mal-nequen must have been the eye watchful over the behaviour of paint.
founder of the dynasty, and must have At present, however, the accomplishment of
In the Revue Biblique for January the ruled over Egypt as well as Ethiopia, the
the drawings is more impressive than the
Dominican Father Dhorme has an excellent so-called kings of the Twenty-Third and promise of the pictures.
article on Cyrus the Great. In this he Twenty-Fourth Dynasties, together with the
reconciles, to all appearance satisfactorily, later ones of the Twenty-Second, being colours of London and Oxford' at the
MR. W. WALCOT's exhibition of water.
Darius's statement on the Behistun Inscrip; only his vassals. Prof. Säyce also thinks Fine Art Society's Gallery in New Bond
tion that eight kings of his family had that the heresy of Khuenaten lingered in
reigned before him with Herodotus's account Ethiopia after dying out in Egypt, and that Street, which opens on Monday, includes
series of restorations of buildings
of Xerxes's genealogy, by the supposition one of Mal-nequen's successors named Aspalut of ancient Rome and compositions illustra-
that Cyrus I. and Ariaramnes, the grand may have been addicted to it. The date of tive of ancient Roman life, reproductions of
father of Hystaspes, were brothers. He Ethiopian control over the Delta he pushes which form the subject of an article by Mr.
considers that of these Cyrus ruled over as far back as 895 B. C. , and he thinks the Max Judge on New Interpretations of
Elam, while Ariaramnes and his descendants great feature of the Meroitic culture was Rome in the forthcoming number of The
retained the leadership of the Persian tribes.
the use of iron, which, he says, the Meroites
Architectural Review.
He brings out clearly the bulwark which may have supplied to the whole of Northern
the immense empire of Nebuchadnezzar, Africa. His identification of the great wall THE CIRCULAR sent out by the Mural
stretching, as he says, from the Euphrates which 'surrounds the palace on the south. Decoration Committee from Crosby Hall
to the Mediterranean, formed to the Semitic west of the city as one built by Ergamenes sets forth a scheme which appears to us
element in Western Asia against the advan. to protect himself after his historic massacro worthy of the strongest support. If ito
cing might of the Aryans represented by of the priests of Amen, when they had ordered appeal is adequately answered, it should do
Cyrus. Other instructive passages are those in him to commit suicide, seems a little fanciful. more to revive the art of painting as an
which Father Dhorme transfers the Biblical But this is a point which only those who indigenous and spontaneous growth in this
legend of the madness of Nebuchadnezzar to have actually seen the site are entitled to country than any other public action which
Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, and decide upon. The wall, he says, was built could well be devised. It is proposed to
thus accounts for Belshazzar or Balthasar by a Greek architect who was named Hero. hold in the latter part of May at Crosby Hall
being in command of the city when Cyrus's philus, Heron, Heracleon, the first an exhibition illustrating the various types
general, Gobryas, broke in. He also lays syllable alone of the name having been of mural painting open to modern practice,
weight on the fact that Cyrus seems to have recovered.
and to include in it designs by artists
been everywhere received by the subject
and students for the decoration
populations as a deliverer, and attributes
institutions which have offered space for
this to the freedom from taxation which they
SALE.
that purpose.
To inaugurate extensive
thenceforth enjoyed for some time. Al.
though he does not say so, this was to all
MESSRS. SOTHEBY have recently sold the follow- experiment in this direction is the object
ing: Bartolozzi, after Roslin, Princess Marie of the promoters of the exhibition, and they
appearance made possible by the accumulated
Christine, 491. G. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, should have the co-operation of all amateurs
royal treasures which he was able to seize 2 vols. , (91. W. Blake, The Baptism of Christ, of art in the endeavour to provide moderate
at Ecbatana and Babylon. The article is water-colour drawing, 521.
but sufficient endowment for the period of
altogether most interesting.
preliminary research necessary to put the
In the Comptes Rendus of the Académie
reviving art of decorative painting on
des Inscriptions M. Pognon, one of the many
a sound and self-supporting basis.
learned men in the consular service of France,
Fine Art Gossip.
An important measure affecting artists
draws attention to the dating of the Aramaic
is to be introduced into the French Chamber
papyri lately discovered at Elephantine, and The collection of work at the Chenil by M. André Hesse. It is proposed to enact
published by Prof. Sayce and Dr. Cowley. | Gallery is that of a colourist somewhat of that a duty of 2 per cent shall be imposed
It has hitherto been considered that the the type of Mr. John. Like that artist, Mr.
calendar to which they refer must be the J. D. Innes uses the most brilliant pigments, and that this percentage shall be paid to
on all works of art sold by public auction,
religious calendar of the Jews, and it has sometimes finely related, sometimes merely the artist, and after his death to his heirs.
been difficult to make this agree with the for the purpose of gaudiness. . 'The Little M. Maurice Barrès and several members of
Egyptian dates. M. Pognon now shows, Stroam (11), one of the principal exhibits, the Société du Droit d'Auteur aux Artisto
however, that the calendar of the scribes of is an exhilarating colour-scheme, though desire to see the measure still more strins
the Elephantine papyri was the Babylonian we must in this and the other large canvas gently framed, so as to include private sales
one, which formed, as he says, the official ( Repose,' 3) make certain reservations as
also.
calendar of the Sernitic populations subject to the artist's figure-drawing. Nos. 5, 25,
to the Persian power. This, on the same 26, and 27 are among the best of the land- THE Société des Artistes Français has
authority, has been admirably reconstructed scapes.
decided upon a momentous alteration in the
by Prof. Mahler (of Vienna) in his well- THE pastels and drawings of M. Hermann- rules affecting exhibitors at the Old Salon.
known work on Babylonian chronology, and Paul at the Stafford Gallery display him in Hitherto allº medallists have been hors
by the aid of this he is able to give the date a double capacity. As a portrait draughts-concours that is to say, have had the right
of seven of the Elephantine papyri with man, he is at his best in the dainty 'Trois to exhibit a certain number of works without
such particularity as to comprise the very Enfants’ (12) and the trenchantly charac. submitting them to the jury. In future
day of the month and year in which they 'terized 'Docteur H. L. ' (31). As an illus. I only medallists of the first class will enjoy
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this right, and it is thought that this limita.
examples, which are not only very short,
tion will tend to reduce the overcrowding CLASSICAL SOCIETY'S CONCERT.
but also all from the same work.
of the Old Salon that has been noticeable
We read that the music which Purcell
in recent years, and give fairer opportunities
THE second concert of the Classical wrote for plays is “not as a rule an essential
for younger artists.
Society on Wednesday evening at Bech- part of the drama, but an extraneous adorn-
THE KING has lent four more of Holbein's stein Hall opened with a Quartet for
ment at certain points. ” This is too sweep-
ing a statement. The old date of 1675 is
portrait-drawings to the Fitzwilliam Museum Strings in D, by Mr. Donald Francis
at Cambridge this term, as well as two draw- Tovey. He is an accomplished and learned assigned to Dido and Æneas. But this
,
and many slips in proper names throughou
ings by Italian masters. The Duke of Devon. musician, and the writing in this work is
the volume, would, no doubt, have been
shire's loan consists of six drawings by the sound and clever, though without any real set right had the author lived to see his work
Brueghels and three that are ascribed to appeal to the heart. His style is too through the press. He has an interesting
Watteau. There is a small exhibition of
Rembrandt etchings in the large gallery of reminiscent of the classic period. The though debatable theory regarding dramatic
the Museum.
music in England. The great fault in Eng-
Larghetto and Andante Innocente were
the best of the five sections. An excellent lish operas of the seventeenth and eighteenth
WE regret to record the death of Mr.
centuries was, he rightly says, the almost
Val. Havers, which took place last week at performance was given by the Klingler total absence of dramatic power. " That
Poole after some months of illness. His Quartet.
quality he finds in the verse-anthems of the
two "living-room pictures ” in last year's
old English composers,
a kind of drama
Academy were recognized as having beauty
that never fails to appeal to English feeling.
and merit of an unusual kind, and would
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
Again, he remarks that Handel's oratorios
almost certainly have been acquired under
fully expressed our ideal drama. ” But
the terms of the Chantrey bequest but for
Post-Victorian Music, with other Studies and the influence of Handel and other subse-
the promptitude of two private buyers. It Sketches. By C. L. Graves. (Macmillan. ), quent foreign writers interfered for a long
is a misfortune for British art that they are The papers in this volume are reprinted, time with any development of the English
not to be followed by others of the same
with certain alterations, from The Spectator, school of sacred drama. The chapter on
character.
and two of them deal with present-day com- Sir Edward Elgar and The Dream' is
posers whose works attract special notice : one of the best in the volume.
Richard Strauss and Sir Edward Elgar.
Our author recognizes the great talent of the
MUSIC
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former, yet after hearing ‘Elektra' and
A Dictionary of Musical Terms.
E. F. Cook.
Salome,' he has little hope the composer
(Drane. ) The author's
"will emerge from that slough of calculated object to supply a
cheap and
CÉSAR FRANCK'S ORATORIO
eccentricity in which he has been too long reliable work of the kind,” and he has
submerged. " Sir Edward's first Symo gathered much of the material from Grove,
* THE BEATITUDES. '
phony he cannot recognize as an advance Parry, Prout, Riemann, Stainer, and other
the
Many of
terms
in essentials on the high standard reached by authorities.
are
CÉSAR FRANCK's oratorio, “The Beati- him in The Dream, and especially the briefly and clearly explained. Some others,
tudes,' was composed in 1870, but not · Enigma' Variations. Such criticisms are however, will require revision before a
published until ten years later. A per-
more valuable than the unqualified praise second edition is issued. The explanation
of the term Variation is not quite up
formance of it was given by the Glasgow of other writers. The strong, and in some
to date ; that of “Mordent” is too vague ;
Choral and Orchestral Union in 1900; by many critics has created a
cases wilful opposition to Wagner for years
natural
while that of “Double Fugue” is unsatis-
and again at the Cardiff Musical Festival desire on the part of a minority not to factory. Again, neither theorists nor com-
of 1902, both times under the direction be too dogmatic in expressing their opinions posers are agreed as to whether “ Andantino;
of Sir Frederick Cowen, also at Sheffield in concerning composers whose art-wɔrk is still
means faster or slower than “Andante. "
1908 under that of Sir Henry J. Wood. , in progress.
The excessive praise now
“ Suite” is said to be “the name given to
a collection of dance music preceded by
But it was heard for the first time in accorded to Strauss in certain quarters may,
London when performed at Queen's Hall
as has been the case with Mendelssohn, lead a prelude. " Bach's · Suites Anglaises
begin, it is true, with a Prelude, but
to an equally unfair reaction.
last Tuesday evening by the Bach Choir,
none of the Suites Françaises' does. Fagotto
under the direction of Dr. H. P. Allen. Many of the papers refer to the past. One is the Italian for bassoon, not a musical
The work is considered one of the
is devoted to Manns, a valuable reminder to instrument like a bassoon. ' Vite is not
-composer's best, and, according to the musicians of to-day that, however much is Italian, but French. To these instances we
due to Dr. Richter and Sir Henry J. Wood could add others. All can be easily set right,
opinion of M. Vincent d'Indy, the most
for great interest now taken in London and thus enhance the value of the work.
prominent of all Franck's pupils and in high-class music, the seed was sown
friends, contains some of his noblest during the forty years' labours of Manns,
music. He speaks of it as unequal, with whose name that of Grove ought to be
but thinks the inspired pages outnumber coupled. The last paper in the volume is
those of less interest.
entitled 'Musical England. '
“ Are the Eng-
There were good features in the per-
lish a musical nation ? " is a question which
Musical Gossip.
formance. The tone of the sopranos and
is constantly being asked, and differently
answered. Mr. Graves quotes a statement SIGNOR BUSONI, who has not given a
altos, especially the latter, was excellent; recently made by Sir Hubert Parry as to pianoforte recital in London for some time,
but the singing was only occasionally our inexhaustible passion for the music announces one to take place at Bechstein
expressive in quiet passages, such as the of foreigners,” also the remark of a “dis. Hall, and the only one this year, in the
beautiful chorus They are for ever tinguished foreign musician ” made to him, afternoon of March 14th.
bless’d,” for female voices, or the Lento that you (i. e. , the English] have no real
MR. ARNOLD DOLMETSCH promises two
coda to the Seventh Beatitude. Of the devotion to great music as a nation”; and
concerts of music of the sixteenth, seven-
solo singers, only one,
Mr. Harry is difficult to gainsay. "
there is much in both indictments which “ it
teenth, and eighteenth centuries, to be
Dearth, did full justice to his part.
given in the Hall of Clifford's Inn on the
Miss Gladys Honey has a good, clear
evenings of Wednesday, the 14th, and
voice, but she did not interpret her
The Rise and Development of Opera. By Monday, the 26th, of the present month.
music as if her whole heart and soul were
Joseph Goddard. . (Reeves. )- The author
HERR MICHAEL BALLING has been ap-
points out that various countries have their
in it, and Franck’s sincere and emotional Special tastes and leanings, which have pointed successor to Dr. Hans Richter as
conductor of the Hallé Concerts at Man-
work needs interpreters who are in real affected the history of opera. Thus we can
chester, and will enter upon his duties in
earnest. The orchestra did not blend trace the development of the vocal solo in
the autumn. Of his ability he has offered
well with the choir. Dr. Allen is a sound Italy; the fugal form in Germany; the ballet
musician and conductor ; hence we pre- in France; and the madrigal, verse-anthem, sufficient proof in the performances of the
'Ring’ given by Herr Denhoff in Edinburgh
sume that more rehearsals were required and glee in Englandree The chapters on the and other northern cities.
first countries
than he was able to secure. Many cuts
THESIXTH BACH FESTIVAL of the New Bach
were made, and for this, since the work esting, and with the comments made we
agree
for the most part.