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Some Opinions of the Press:

Syracuse Herald.-"A story by Albion W. Tourgés is pretty sure to be interesting, and A Son of Old Harry' is no exception to the rule. The title comes from certain family traits which developed themselves in the hero, and which are charactered by a peculiar birthmark in the shape of a red spur in the heel."

Hartford Courant.-"A Son of Old Harry,' by Albion W. Tourgée, is the infelicitous title of one of the most notable of recent novels. The hero, the son of old Harry Goodwin, a Western settler, joins the Union Army at the beginning of the war, and gains name and fame. The style is terse, clear, and often eloquent, for the author preserves his enthusiasms, especially in scenes descriptive of tho war and its tragic events." Public Ledger, Phila. "No one can complain of lack of exciting interest in this novel. It is told with remarkable skill, and the plot is wrought out to its climax with a deepening sense of interest. The book is fully illustrated by Warren B. Davis.

A New Novel by the Author of "Seth's Brother's Wife."

THE RETURN OF
THE O'MAHONY.

BY

HAROLD FREDERIC,

Author of "Seth's Brother's Wife," "The Lawton Girl," etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY WARREN B. DAVIS.

12mo. Handsomely Bound in Cloth. Price, $1.50. Faper Cover, 50 Cents. Harold Frederic has won a place among the best writers of fiction by his charming novel, "Seth's Brother's Wife." His new novel, "The Return of the O'Mahony," will increase his reputation as a bright and amusing story-teller. This story opens with a scene in camp, near the close of the Rebellon, full of life and spirit and picturesqueness. The hero is a Yankee dare-devil, a private soldier, famed for his courage and eccentricity throughout the Union Army. His last adventure, in the company of an Irish recruit, leads to his going to Ireland and joining the Fenian Brotherhood. The record of his doings, and of the connections and associations which he makes there is full of astonishing incidents and disclosures, extremely interesting and often delightfully humorous. The book is one which will gratify the jaded palate of the satiated novel-reader by its sprightliness and originality.

ROBERT

SONS,

NUMBER 372.

POETRY.

The Pianist.

HER fingers race along the keys,
Without regard to time,

Or if the theme be sorrowful,
Or stately, or sublime.

A dirge, a march, a hero-strain,
To thrill the world's great heart,
Beneath her tripping touch becomes
A dance's lively part.
However lofty be the sweep

Of matchless chord and tone,
Their rhythm flippantly she gives
In her light-skipping own.
And all of them go cantering,
Whatever be their style,
Along the ivory race-course,
A second to the mile.

Go cantering, go galloping,

All in the self-same rig;

And up and down, and down and up,
To the quick time of a jig.
Chopin would weep himself to fits,
Schumann would do likewise,
And wish their harmonies were back
In the immortal skies.

Gluck, Beethoven, Mozart, and Liszt,
And others I might name,
To hear her play their heaven-set themes
Would weep from grief and shame.

Their themes? Nay, those she substitutes,
To keep the music up,

Would fill with bitter, bitter gall
Each dead composer's cup,

And make him for a mighty sponge
Or an eraser shout,

To wipe each hurt and outraged note,
To save his laurels, out."

MARSHALL PRIMROSE.

BOSTON, JANUARY, 1893.

MISCELLANY.

The London Symphony Concerts. MR. HENSCHEL has made rather a bad start with the London Symphony Concerts. By some unfortunate mistake he made his program too short, and not sufficiently interesting. Beethoven's C-minor symphony has been done to death; Berlioz's "King Lear" is not the best of his overtures; nor is Wagner's Centennial March the best example of the music of the future. Yet, except as to a song for Mrs. Henschel, and Liszt's version of Weber's Concertstück, which Miss Szoumowska played a few days before at the Crystal Palace and now repeated, these formed the entire program. There was barely an hour and a half of music, and the public will not pay high prices for so small a show. Cor. Am. Art Journal.

Dvorák in Boston.

WHEN Dvorák was in Boston he said to an interviewer, "Yes, I have been asked frequently what I think of America musically. I have been asked in England and other countries, and here. This is the youngest country. How could it hope to be abreast of the old country in music? But I find here the musical temperament, the musical faculty: all it needs is education.

"Here," continued Mr. Dvorák, "all the ladies play. It is well, it is nice; but I am afraid the ladies cannot help us much. They have not the creative power," emphatically, and with finger on his forehead. "How is it in my own country? There everybody plays, and especially the men. It is compulsory. They must go to school for six years, from fourteen to twenty. They must learn to read, write, and all that, and to play some instrument."

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Verdi's New Opera.

THE forthcoming production, at Milan, of Verdi's Falstaff " continues to furnish the leading topic of conversation in Italian musical circles. The principal parts will be in the hands of Messrs. Maurel, Moretti, and Pini-Corti; Mesdames Stehle, Zilli, and Pasqua. The veteran maestro will himself conduct the first performance. The work is without an overture or prelude of any kind, a few bars of orchestration serving as an introduction to each of the three acts and six tableaux into which the opera is divided. The performance will occupy not more than an hour and a half.

Mexican Musicians for the Fair. CHICAGO, Dec. 5. - General Sorrano, directorgeneral of the Mexican exhibit at the Columbian Exposition, received a letter yesterday stating that Madam Diaz, wife of the Mexican President, is going to send next year to the fair, at her own expense, a woman's band of forty-five musicians. This band will be composed of the most expert artists to be found in Mexico, and will be under the patronage of Madam Diaz. From Mexico will also come the Eighth Regiment Band of eighty pieces, considered the finest in the republic. This band was in Spain at the time of the dedicatory exercises this fall, and unable to be present in Chicago. Both these bands will remain at the fair from its opening to its close.

Paris Conservatory Changes.

THE Committee appointed to formulate a plan of reform at the Paris Conservatory suggests these changes: the creation of a council of teachers in place of the present committee on studies; the establishment of three new classes for saxophone, counterpoint, and alto; increase of the singing classes from eight to ten; suppression of the preparatory classes of declamation, and some of the higher classes stopped. At the late examination only eleven men and twenty-four women were admitted, out of one hundred and thirty-nine men and eighty-eight women who were applicants.

THE New York Ladies' Quartet comprises Miss Louisa Morrison, Miss Minnie C. Dever, Miss Jessie H. Matteson, and Miss Kathryn Tennier.

KERKER. Mr. Gustave Kerker is under engagement to Manager J. M. Hill to conduct "The Fencing-Master" during its run at the Casino, New York.

BILSE. Benjamin Bilse, the well-known conductor of Berlin, has celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance as a director. He is seventy-six years of age.

GERSTER. Mme. Etelka Gerster recently began a series of performances in Berlin, and according to the London Musical Times, in the titular role of Donizetti's opera, "Linda di Chamounix," and as Rosina in "Il Barbiere," "in both of which parts she met with a highly favorable reception."

THE Boston Ideal Comic Opera Company includes Miss Inez Mecusker, Miss Kathryn Evans, Miss Marie Zahn, Mrs. Lillian E. Bullock, Miss Sadie Cushman, Mr. R. S. Nodine, Mr. H. W. Wennerberg, and Mr. Frank Wooly. This company has added "Galatea " to its repertory.