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FAMOUS COMPOSERS.
Tho excellent serial work, "Famous
Composers end Their Works" (pub
lished by the J. B. 'Millet Co., BoBton)
an nrno-roaneil to its fifteenth pari, ana
In th live new numbers Includes bio
graphical sketches and studies of the
Strauss family that Is to say. the
two Johanns and Joseph Strauss by
Henry T. Flnck; Joseph Joachim Raff,
Carl Qoldmark, Orlando Dl Lasso and
Richard Wagner, by W. J. Henderson;
Johannes Brahms and Joseph Gabriel
Rhelnberger, by Louis Kelterborn; Max
Brueh and Palestlna by Louis C. Elson;
and two essays, one by John K. Paine
and Leo R. Lewis conjointly, on "Music
In Germany," and the other by V. J.
Henderson on the Xetherland masters.
Wei wish. In this notice, to glance
briefly three features: The essay on
'Music In Germany," Mr. Flntk's
sketch of the Strauxses, and Mr. Hen
derson's study of Wagner.
Professor Paine Is of the opinion that
muslo In Germany antedated Its em
ployment In the exercises of the church.
"We "have the best Inferential evi
dence," he writes, "that the sense of
melody and rhythm existed In definite
form among the German people of the
middle ages earlier than In church
music." When the monks of St. Gallen
sought to introduce the Gregorian song
Into Germany, it is known that they
could not get the people to Join willing
ly In Its plain chant. Hence the shrewd
monks introduced "sequentlae," or
hymns with words In rhymed Latin
set to fitting music. These the people
readily accepted; and the inference is
that they had been previously given to
such singing and would have no other.
German music, prior to Sebastian
Bach, is divided Into three general di
visions, the folk-songs or Volkslieder,
the love-songs of the troubadours, called
Mlnnesongs, and finally, the church
chorals. The first class is the oldest
and the best; but of It little has come
down to us. The Volkslieder were ten
der and rhythmical; the Mlnnelleder
for the most part heavy and solemn;
and the church chorals devoid of
sprlghtliness and the more graceful
emotions. Instrumental accompani
ment was familiar even prior to the
Thirteenth century; the development of
the counterpoint in the Netherlands
greatly accelerated Its vogue in Ger
many and during the early years of
the Reformation, Protestant church
music became noted for Its contrapunt
al accompaniment. The second period
In the development of Protestant
church music began near the middle of
the sixteenth century "when," says
Professor Paine, "it became the fixed
custom to place the melody in the high
est part of the harmony. When given
to the tenor, the melody could never as
sert Its rights, for it was often lost in
the polyphonic complexity of the other
voices." Its transferrence to the so
prano was determined upon as early as
1542, at which time It was ratified in a
collection of Calvinist psalms.
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In Italy, the invention of the opera,
with Its scrupulous alternations of reci
tative and aria and Its great quickening
of Instrumentation. This century saw
the general introduction of bowed In
struments and may therefore be re
garded as giving to music the orchestra
substantially as It Is now known. The
influence of these changes was appar
ent in Germany as well as In other
European nations; and in Lasso's Mu
nich choir we find (as early as 159?.)
30 Instrumentalists re-lnforcing CO
Voices. In the Dresden band, a
few years later, we find 13 stringed
instruments to 93 wind and percussion
instruments. Organ and clavier play
ing, begun at this period In Italy, spread
Into Germany and in the last two de
cades of the century we find the modern
fugue assuming shape, soon to be made
immortal by the genius of Sebastian
Bach.
Clavier, or clavichord, composition
was of later growth. ' At first, Indeed,"
writes Professor Paine, "the same prin
ciples were applied to both instruments.
But as time went on, the less ponderous
of the two Instruments became the ex
ponent of the gayer moods, as repre
sented by various forms of the dance.
The name sonata, now of such definite
meaning In connection with chamber
music, was at first represented by short
Venetian organ pieces. Subsequently,
in the seventeenth century, the sonata
was a composition for one or more vio
lins with clavier. The first application
of the name sonata to a solo for clavier
was made by Johann Kuhnau, Bach's
predecessor as cantor of the St. Thomas
school at Leipzig." This brings Instru
mental music down to the time whence
its onward progress is familiar to nil.
It remains for us to trace the evolution
of the opera and the oratorlu, both Ital
ian creations, as applied to Germany. .
About the year 1635, one Johann Kaps
berger, a composer who had resided for
20 years tn Rome, began to write music
for the voice after the fashions then In
vogue in ;italy. Gottlieb, at about the
aame time, wrote the first German oper
ettas. Helnrlch Schultz, a contempor-
ary, wrote one serious opera, "Dafne,"
which has been lost. In 1678, a perma
nent theatre was established at Ham
burg. Here operas were produced with
great success for a period covering 60
years. . It was as director of the Ham
burg theater that Relnhard Kelser, the
forerunner of Handel, and hardly sec
ond to Handel In genius, wrote and pro
duced 120 operas, In many of which. In
addition to choruses and recitatives,
there were no less than 40 airs. From
the time of the Hamburg theater under
Kelser's corrfluctorshlp, and under the
atlmulus of Mattheson's and Tele
mann's genius, down to the present, the
opera has been a fixed factor in Ger
man music.. We have traced its begin-
tilings very nastily; its later magnitude
known of all men.
The early history of the oratorio in
ermany is not dissimilar to that ofl
.opera. Helnrlch Schultz, who wrote
first serious German pera, was
Ihe first prominent oratorio corn-
By his attempts to tell the
the R surrectlon" (a composl-
him produced In Dresden In
Vamatlc form, without the aid
lor action, Schultz "became
Vunder'of the modern ora
tmtemporary wlth Schultz
Schein, who was noted for
concertos. Johannes Rosen
V died In 1680, effected a more
Jnstructton of the concerto.
J in this form "consist of a
I separate movements which
yllty of character , by the re-
presence of some principal
t. Thus the form of the cantata
v -established, In which Bach after-
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lty." The Immediate predecessors of j c(.ient biography written by Adolphe
Bach were Johann Rudolph Ahlo and
his son, George Ahle. : In the oratorios
of the latter the form of the urla Is
clearly defined. With these introduc
tory Bteps toward the time of Bach,
Handel and Mozart the subject of music
In Germany may safely for the pres
ent be abandoned.
II.
Most of the histories of music, by
some singular oversight, Ignore tho
StrauBB family. Possibly this Is done
because, in the opinion of certain crit
ics, tho muslo composed by these mas
ters of dance rhythm Is not sulllclently
classic to deserve mention alongside
the ponderous symphonies and dreary
sonatas f some of the heavier German
composers. But if It is intended in a
history of music to give recognition to
genius which hus thrilled and charmed
millions of people in all continents;
which has appealed, with equul certi
tude of response, to the learned and the
unlearned, wherever the witching
measures of the wr.ltz have been even
passably well sounded from strings or
brass instruments; and If something
Is to be ald in behalf of the oreator
of the light, or so-called "comic" opera
which to eight persons out of every
ten, at least In America, Is unques
tionably the only form of opera known,
then It seems to us that it would be. a
fatal error to neglect to accord mention
to the compositions of the two Johanns
and to Joseph Strauss.
The elder Strauss became a composer
owing to a singular circumstance. He
had been, for several years, a viola
player In the orchestra of Joseph Lan
ner, the then pet Impresario of Vienna.
It was Lanuer's custom to produce new
waltzes upon stated occasions, rarely
composing them until a few hours be
fore their production, .i Upon one of
these occasions, an. Important one, Lnn
ner suddenly fell ill. How to get the
waltz written In time was a problem.
Lanner vainly bethought him of every
known expedient, save one. At last,
he sent to Strauss, asking him to take
the work in hand. Strauss did so; the
waltz wa played with the notes on the
score still wet from his pen and, next
day, all Vienna was whistling the
catchy music. That slight circum
stance influenced htm to found an or
chestra of his own, and to compose
waltzes and polkas for It, which he
continued to do until the day of his
death, Sept. 25, 1849.
But It was in the younger Johann, son
of this composer, that the genius of the
Htrauss family culminated. Sixty-four
'ars ago, this son, then a lad of six
jvars, composed a waltz called the
"I trst Thought." Since then waltzes
have proceeded from his prolific pen at
the rate of nearly eight a year, notwith
standing his activity as the composer
of light operas, as a conductor whose
travels have been ten times as varied
and far-reaching as had been those of
his father, and as a biographer of that
father and a student of music. His
most celebrated waltz, the "Blue Dan
ube." Js .number 314 In order of
Its f elation" to his other dance composi
tions, and altogether there are 440 of
these. His brother Joseph was also a
fertile cdmposer. Although Joseph was
delicate of constitution and lived only
forty-three years, the number of his
original compositions chiefly waltzes
and polkas was 283, In addition to
which he is credited with more than
300 arrangements. The other brother,
Eduard, has composed something like
200 dance pieces, but Is better known as
the successor of Johann as executive
head of the Strauss orchestra at
Vienna.
. We must not, however, conclude this
reference to the Strauses without add
ing a word concerning what has un
doubtedly been the Junior Johann's
greatest achievement that is to say,
his Invention. If we may use the term,
of the Viennese type of light opera.
"When Strauss turned to composing
operettas," writes Mr. Flnck, "there
was great consternation, because It was
feared that the carnival In Vienna and
elsewhere would have to dispense there
after with Its annual gifts from his pen.
These fears were unfounded; his oper
ettas were so full of waltz and polka
bun's and full-blown roses that It was
easy to pick them for a concert-hall
and ball-room bouquet; so that some
of his best recent dance pieces are taken
from his operettas. Equally unfounded
were tho fears that after devoting more
than a quarter of a century to the
composition of dance music, Strauss
would be unable to win distinction as n
dramatic writer. In his first operettas,
It Is true, the libretto was little more
than a peg to hang on waltzes, polkas
and marches; but gradually be eman
cipated himself mure and more from the
simple saltatorlal style, until In 'The
Bat,' the 'Merry War', and subsequent
works he created a new type of oper
etta, with beautiful flowing, lyric mel
odies and stirring dramatic ensembles.
True, the 'waltz king' is never quite
able to disguise his character, but In
this very fact lie the originality and
unique charm of the Strauss operetta.
It Is a new style of stnge play the
Austrian operetta a new 'school' "of
comlo opera; and In creating this
Strauss placed himself far above his
father and his brothers. Mllloecker
would not have been possible but for
Strauss, and Suppe did not write- his
best works until after Strauss had
shown the way," -
The list of Strauss' operettas com
prises "iriaigo." 1.871; "The Carnival In
Rome," 1873; "The Bat," 1874; "Cogl
lostro," l.S7r.; "Prince Methusalem,"
1877; "The Blind Man's Buff," 187S;
"The Queen's Lace Handkerchief," 1880;
"The. Merry War," 1881; "A Night In
Venice," 1883; "The Gypsy Bnron," 188!i;
and "Slmpllclus," 1887. In Mr. Flnck'g
opinion there Is more good music in
these operettas than In, those of any
other composer, not excepting Offen
bach or Sullivan; the trouble with them
9 n the Insipidity of their librettos.
unree years ago, Strauss produced a
grand opera, "Hitter Pasman," which Is
said to contain a 'J flow of fresh and
natural melody like that which we find
In Schubert and Haydn." He Is still
working to attain -Mgher rank as a
composer; but at 70 years can hardly be
said to have before him many years of
opportunity.
III.
i'
Touching the life of Wagner no in
finitely mucb has been written within
the past score of years that the task of
compressing- into 28 pages, or approxi
mately 15,000 words, not only salient
biographical facts but likewise a short
study of his influence upon the lyrlo
stage' and upon musical canons Is one
hardly to be envied. Mr. W. J. Hen-
Corson, however, has dons It remark
ably v.-cll. Whsn wo remember that
one could, wlthuut going; outside Wag
nerlana, stool: two libraries each equal
In size to the Albright Msmorial libra
ry; and collect mare portraits, photo
graphs and views of Yr'asner and Wag
nerian subjects than there are pictures
In all Scranton, one may gather some
Idea of the profusion of materials sur
rounding the biographer of the great
Gorman reformer. We shall not at
tempt to follow Mr. Henderson through
his well-compressed details of Wag
ner's life. All who ere interested In
Julllen. an American translation of
which Is now available. A word con
cerning Wagner's purposes, and we
shall have reached the limits of our
present space.
Tho sago of Bayreuth was not the
first person to deplore the decadence of
dramatic and operatic forms which was
prevalent (luting the first half of the
present century. In his preface to "Al
ceste" O luck had announced the theory
that the music of an opera should sec
ond the poetry "by enforcing the ex
pression of the sentiment and the Inter
est of the situations, without interrupt
ing the action or weakening it by nu
perfluous ornament." His Idea was
that "the relation of music to poetry
was much the same an that of harmoni
ous coloring and well-disposed light
and shade to un accurate drawing,
which animates the figure without al
tering the outlines." Hut, as Mr. Hen
derson tells us, "while Uluek made
sweeping changes for the better, he
failed to reach the root of all evil. He
did not abolish from the operatic stage
the set forms, which made the musi
cian the superior" olllcer of the poet."
It remained for Richard Wagner not
only to reach this fundamental diffi
culty, but virtually to revolutionize the
entire world of dramatic song. He
"saw the theater in the hands of those
to whom art was nothing and gain
everything; while the public, Jaded and
sated, ceaselessly clamored for new
sensations. Continued attempts of the
money-seeking managers to satisfy this
public demand, which was In Its very
nature insatiable, had led to a condi
tion of opera In which the music had no
organic connection with the text, the
pageantry and ballets no logical rela
tion to the pictorial ensemble." To a
man of the phenomenally active genius
of Wagner, such a spectacle was intol
erable; and it was Inevitable from his
very temperament that he should seek
to bring order out of this chaos. His
purpose. In brief, was so to blend the
music, both of the voice and of the In
struments, with the spoken sentiment
and the acted emotion of the opera as
to produce a thoroughly harmonized
effect upon the auditor; and not to make
either the music, the recited verse or
the acted posture even momentarily In
dependent of the other factors In other
words, "to demonstrate that the mod
ern theater had the power to bring
itself Into the same relation to the
noblest Ideal life of man as the Greek
theater had."
It was a herculean undertaking; and
is not yet wholly successful. But it is
true beyond a peradventure that every
year adds to the number and enthusi
asm of Wagner's admirers; and the
evolution of the Wagnerian drama pro
ceeds apace. "The great Bayreuth
master has," writes Mr. Henderson,
"been severely censured, by those who
cling to the belief that music should
always be pretty, for having written
many harsh progressions and for hav
ing indulged In remarkable boldness
in his harmonies. These so-called sins
must find their Justification In the fact
that Wagner was not aiming at purely
musical beauty. The whole purpose of
his work was 'exact and life-like em
bodiment of the poet's thought.' When
the emotions were grand and beauti
ful, the music had to be of a similar
character. It is for these reasons that
we find the snarling ange of Albernlch
and Mime, the bitter hatred of Ortrud,
the fury of Isolde, voiced in music
which Is not pretty, but truthful. But
on the other hand, when Wagner had
to express the sorrows of the Volsungs,
the fierce and sudden passion of Sieg
mund and Slegllnde, the awful revul
sion of feeling in the death of Siegfried,
or the highest elevation of woman's
love In the last moments of Isolde, he
rises to a sublime height of melody, an
overwhelming dignity of harmony and
an irresistible eloquence of Instru
mentation not equalled by any other
composer." 1
The conclusions which Mr. Hender
son reaches concerning Wagner's rank
as a musician are embodied In the fol
lowing . passage: "It Is Indisputable
that he was the greatest master of the
art of scoring who has ever lived. He
showed a, profoundur Insight Into the
Individual capacity of every instrument
than any other composer except Uer
lloz, and In fecundity of combination
he excelled even the gifted Frenchman.
He enriched the body of tone of the
modern orchestra by the employment
of the tenor tuba, and emphasized the
value of the neglected bass trumpet.
His addition to. the customary number
of horn parts splendidly improved the
mellow .tone and solidity of the brass
choir, and Ms use of the.baRS clarinet,
not simply as a solo instrument, but
as a reinforcement of the -organ-like
bass of the wood-wind department was
a stroke of genius. He further de
veloped the expressiveness of the wood
wind band by the novelty of his distri
bution of harmony among its members.
Nut only did he allot solos to them
with unerring Judgment, but departing
from the conventional style of the
classic symphonlsts, who used their
wood instruments In pairs playing In
thirds and sixths, he wrote for these
instruments in a marvelously effective
dispersed harmflny. In writing for the
strings, Wagner divided them more
frequently than his predecessors had
done, often 'making six or eight real
parts among the violins alone.' Alto
gether his instrumentation Is richer In
Its polyphony .and more solid in its
body of tone than that of any other
composer. He has been accused of be
ing noisy, but power of sound is not
necessarily noise. There is more noise
In some of Verdi's shrieking piccolo
passages, accentuated with bass-drum
thumps, than in the loudest passage
that Wagner ever wrote.' Taking him'
'by and large,' as the sailors say, Wag
ner Is the most striking figure In the
history of music. He will remain fixed
upon. the records as the most command
ing 'Intellect that ever sought to ex
press Ha thought 'and accomplish Us
purposes through the medium of music.
His Influence upon his contemporaries
has been larger than that of any mas
ter since the sclence'of modern music
began." . I B. R.
AMONG THE MAgAZINES.
Of the ten leading articles In the
April Forum, that by Justin McCarthy'
comprising v study of Lord Rosebery
Is possibly the most Interesting, The
leader of the Irih parliamentary party
Is of the opinion that the present Eng
lish premier has within him the poten
tial Ability to become one of the great
est .of .English statesmen; but he is
also of the opinion that. Lord Rosebery,
for some Inscrutable reason, has not
yet chosen to put forth his highest pow
ers. An article by niohard Eurton, ihe
Hartford poet and revlower, on "The
Iiealt'.iful Tone for American Litera
ture" lays dorra ths principle, which
will receive very general indorsement,
that tho highest forms of art expres
sion, whether In . painting, sculpture,
muslo or literature, come only upon a
basis of firm confidence in ethical
standards, and are stifled, stunted and
repressed by the prevalence, as at pres
ent, of a foolish regard for "art for art's
sake." Other valuable contributions to
this number of the Forum are W. H.
Mallock's analysis of socialism, Ed
ward Atkinson's plea for gold mono
metallism, Professor M'Master's remin
iscent glance at past financial crises
in this country, Henry Fletcher's sta
tistical demonstration that the small
American town is doomed, and Dr.
Newman Smyth's strong argument for
the discouragement of betting, and
thus of gambling and the lottery evil.
In point of well-balanced contents of
a character best adapted to the purpose
of general education, the Chautauquan
occupies a position not, to our knowl
edge, rivaled by any competing publi
cation; and In Its April number one
may perceive a notable illustration of
the comprehensive policy of Its con
ductors. We quote a few of the titles of
the more conspicuous articles In this
number: "Queen Victoria and Her
Children," "What the Stars Are Made
of," "Napoleon on the Island of Elba,"
"Tho World's Debt to Modern Sani
tary Science," "Politics as a Career
In England," "The Great Tunnels
of the World," "The German For
est," "How Christians Destroyed a
Tribe of Indians" being one case
in which missionary zeal was
cruelly misdirected, "Labor Bureaus
and Their Work," "The Reign of
Money," "The Smallest Republic In the
World" that of San Marino, In Italy,
which, although only seventeen square
miles and containing only 8,000 popula
tion, has a history dating baok to the
Fourth century, "Florence Night
ingale, a Character Study," "Influence
of the Weather on Diseases," "Easter,
Its Eggs and Legends," and "Women
Among the Early Germans." We know
of no more instructive feast than this,
comprised within the pages of a single
magazine.
The first article In the Cosmopolitan
for April is also one of the best written
and most interesting articles printed
this month. It is Mrs. Robert P. Por
ter's graceful biographical sketch of
the celebrated Lady Hamilton, of
whom our great grandfathers raved
and gossiped in Lord Byron's time
"The Nymph of the Attitudes," as she
is termed in this article's title, who,
the daughter of a peasunt coal carrier,
and herself a nurse maid, rose by her
grace of person and flirtatious arts to
the position of wife of England's
proudest ambassador. This article, to
gether with one by Lady Colin Camp
bell on "English Country-House Par
ties" and George Frederick Seward's
contrasting of China With Japan forms
the magazine's predominant features.
'
Mrs. Victoria Woo'dhull Martin's
Humanitarian is beginning to become
a really interesting periodical. For
April It presents at least three articles
that do It signal credit. The first of
these is Professor Bonney's paper on
"Science and Faith," in which, after
showing that the Reformation was a
scientific process, he contends that sci
entific research Is a necessary antidote
for the superstitions which tend
to collect around faith as bar
nacles around a ship. The sec
cond is by F. St. John Bullen and
treats of problems concerning the pre
vention of insanity, holding that while
science teaches the need of stringent
state regulation of the procreatlve
function, to the end that children may
be healthy In both body and mind, it
will not be possible, under existing con
ditions, to go further than to insist
upon a more general diffusion of the
laws of hygiene, so that personal re
straint from vicious practices may fol
low as a voluntary consequence. The
last article Is by Rev. J. Rice Byrne,
and comprises a vigorous arraignment
of the folly and evil influences of cor
poral punishment In schools.
Successive numbers of that dainty
Chicago fortnightly, The Chap-Book,
strengthen its hold upon the affections
of readers who can appreciate even a
censurable fad, when It Is followed
with originality, novelty and fine scorn
of the conventional. For April 1 the
Chap-Book presents a well-conceived
sonnet, Endymlon, by De Gualta; n
Maeterllncklan prose sketch by Gilbert
Parker, entitled "The Golden Pipes;"
a "lyric of Joy," by Bliss Carman; a
sketchy bit of travel and description
concerning Colombia, the "land of revo-
lutlons;" a poem by Duffleld Osborne
and a two-page drawing, by Charles
Dana Gibson, for. Herbert Chatfleld
Taylor's decadent novel, "Two Women
and a Fool." Lastly, we have the
"Notes," tremendously affected and
phantasmagoric, at times, yet fetching
for all that. Upon the whole, notwith
standing its faults, we should not like
to spare the Chap-Book.
At.'THORB AND PUBLISHERS:
William Dean Howells Is profusely
writing poetry.
First numbers of the Chap Book are
selling In Boston at $H to J7.M).
William Watson has received a grant of
1(10 a year from the British civil list.
Professor John Flsko Is writing a new
book dealing with the early history of Vir
ginia. Mark Twain has sailed again for Eu
rope, this time to bring his family homo
anil settle down once more at Hartford.
A Chicago paper boasts that there are
200 poets and authors within n radius of
four or five miles of tho city hall In that
city.
The sum of 20,000 pesetas ($1,000) has been
collected in Spanish America for a monu
ment to the female poet Donna Conception
del Arenal. ,
The Bookman understands that Theo
dore Watts has abandoned his long-cher-Ished
plan of writing tha-lifo of his friend,
Dante Rossettl.
A manuscript volume entitled "Let tors
to a Boy of Twelve" has been found
among the unpublished papers of the late
Robert Louis Stevenson,
Charles A. Dana has edited, revised and
added to his lectures on the making of a
newspaper, which will be published In
book form by the Appletons.
The American committee In London Is
sues an appeal for an additional subscrip
tion of 11.000 to complete the International
memorial to Tennyson on the Isle of
Wight, i
The lights In the' 'Memoirs of General
Grant" have been bought by the Century
company, which will Issue a new two-volume
library edition, not to be sold by sub
scription, ' ,
A .new poet has been discovered by
Chips, of New York, In an Ohio man,
Franklin E. Denton, who Is said to have
been sedulously hiding his light under
bushel In northern Ohio for years, .
Bronson Howard Is the wealthiest dra
matic writer In this country. His work
has paid . him well from the start. Hi
stage royalties from "Bhenandoab" alone
have amounted to nearly 1200,000.
"The Jewel of Tnes Galon" Is the title
of a novel to appear soon in London,
anonymoua'.y, and conoern'.nrr which Mr.
Andrew Lang predicts a rvonuorful litur-
try success. It is a Welch tale, dealing
with buried treasure, pirates, etc. -
Q. It. Crockett, the Scottish novelist, Is
lcl: with influenza In London, where, for
some weeks before the attack, he was
lionised extensively and etrjoyof It. Crock
ett, It scorns, was In London journalism
before he studied for the ministry. Now
he has left the pulpit to write novels.
The demand for tho number of Harper's
Monthly containing the portion of "Tril
by" left out of tho novel in book form at
the threat of Mr. Whistler to bring a libel
suit against tho publishers continues as
great as ever. Tho price of the number
has risen at least 1,000 per cent, and the
"Trilby" loaves have been taken out,
handsomely bound and sold at (15. '
An exceedingly artistic and dainty little
32-page announcement of novelties for ye
lpver of goode bookes has been Issued by
the Frederick A. Stokes company, New
York. One of the new things Included In
this announcement Is a handsome volume,
"The Phantom Death and Other Slorios,"
by W. Clurk Russell. It will form one of
this firm's excellent Twentieth Century se
ries of select works of fiction.
From Dodd, Mead & Co., of New York,
through M. Norton, of this city, have been
received two new books; one, M. de Va
rlgny's "The New Woman of the United
ijtates," extended mention of which was
made lust Sutuniay In tho department,
"Facts of Interest to Women headers;"
and the other Chester Holeombe's study
of "The Real Clilnuman," a most Inter
esting and timely book, extended review
of which must be deferred until next Sat
urday. Ibsen's "Master Builder" was produced
at Hooley'e thuutcr, Chicago, a few Uuys
ago by pupils of the Chteugo conservatory.
Before the performance Hamlin Garland
read on essay on the elevation of the stage,
commending "the production of a play
which Is literature, which scorns the con
ventions of stage-cruft or, rather etage
weakness which has no soliloquy, no mis
placed adjectives, no bombast, no nils
guided rhetoric." Unlllunilnated C'lilca
gaons thought tho play rather dreary.
WELSH JOTTINGS.
The vacancy In the list of the prose
adjudicators of the Llanelly National
eisteddfod of 189!i caused by the death
of Rev. J. Wyndham Lewis, of Carmar
then, has been filled by the appoint
ment of Rev. W. R. Jones (Goleufryn),
Carnarvon.
A circular has been Issued to the Cal
vinlstic Methodlat churches and con
gregations In the Vale of Chvyd cau
tioning them against being "misled
and deluded" to Blgn petitions against
the Welsh disestablishment bill.
The first number of a reprint of the
sermons of Rev. Christmas Evans, un
der the editorship of Rev. Owen Da
vies, Carnevon, has Just been lamed.
The Issue will Include the two series of
sermons already published. The first
series was. Issued by the author from
Cardiff, In 1829, and the second series
after the talented author's death.
When the late Rev. Edward
Matthews, of Bridgend, lived In Ewen
ny, he was often met by a very able
parson of eccentric habits, who would
challenge him to preach for the best
with him. "All right," said Mr.
Matthews one day, entering Into the
fun of the thing. "Very good," said
the parson, "the' stake must be a sov
ereign." "Agreed." "Well," said the
parson, "wherei shall we preach?" "In
your pulpit," replied Mr. Matthews.
"I can't allow you there," said the par
son, "It is contrary to law." "All
right," put In Mr. Matthews, "you must
not challenge me to preach again until
you have paid this money." The par
son never troubled Mr. Matthews
afterward.
The Liberals of the Montgomery bor
oughs have been singularly unfortu
nate. After encountering extraordin
ary difficulties in the choice of a candi
date, they succeeded In finding a very
promising' one in the person of J. W.
Willans, of Dolforgan, but only a few
weeks after his acceptance of the candi
dature, the hand of death has deprived
them of his services, and they have
now to begin again the work of select
ing a candidate Vho will be likely to
wrest the seat from Sir Pryce Pryce
Jones. The report of J. T. Robson (H. M. In
spector of mines for the South Wales
district, which does not Include Mon
mouthshire) for the year 1894 sets out,
as usual, a number of highly Interest
ing statistics, and is crammed with sug
gestive comment and counsel. The to
tal number of fatal accidents In his
district was 146, compared with 152-3,
the average number for the preceding
ten years; but the deaths amounted to
no less than 440. being 211 more than In
1893, and 236 more than the average
number of deaths for the ten years
1884-93. This extraordinary Increase In
the number of deaths .Is more than ac
counted for by the Albion cntastrophe.
which caused the loss of 290 lives, a
number only once exceeded In the annals
of mining accidents In this country,
viz., when 234 persons were killed in an
explosion at the Oaks colliery. In York
shire, Dec. 12, 1866, and which was fol
lowed by other explosions within two
days, causing a further loss of 27 lives,
Even after deducting the Albion loss,
the number Is still a large one, but Its
largeness was not due to any accident
outside of the dally run of mining
casualties, which may be seen from the
following statement:
Lives,
1 fatal accident (the Albion explo
sion) caused the loss of 290
G fatal accidents caused the loss of
two lives In oach case 10
HO fatal accidents caused the loss of
one life In each case 140
140 410
The death Is announced of Dr. Evan
Pelrce, of Denbigh, at the nge of 87
years. The learned gentleman enjoyed
a national reputation as a physician,
and was made famous by his services
as coroner In connection with the Irish
mall accident at Abergele In the Blxtles,
He was mayor of Denbigh from 1866 to
1871 and on his retirement a monument
was erected in the town at a cost of
2,000. In 1882 he presented a parson
age to tho local Wesleyan church which
cost f3,000.
Not Founded on History,
In a literary discusulon the other even
ing It was stated very positively that
Robert Browning's poem, ""How They
Brought the Good News from Ghent,"
was founded upon historical facts, and
that the episode would be found narrated
In Motley's "Dutch Republic." This same
Question was very hotly discussed In Eng
land shortly after the appearance of the
poem. As there Is aeemblancoof truth In
the poem to the history of the Spanish op
pression In tho Netherlands, It was plausi
bly argued thut the "Good News" was the
formation of the northern alliance by
William the Bilent, which finally wrested
the Independence of tho Netherlands from
Bpaln. Whllo this discussion was at Its
height. It occurred to one oftho disputants
to inquire or rar. urowmnu nimseir, wnere
upon he replied: "There is no sort of his
torical foundation for the poem about
'Good News from Ghent to-Alx.' I wrote
It under the bulwark of a vessel oft tho
African coast after I had been at sea long
enough to appreciate even the' fsncy of a
gallop on tho back of certain good horse,
York, then In my stable at home." This
ought to settle he point,
"
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