Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . IN OLD BOSTON 297 glad, after being carefully drilled by and his assistants in their home-towns,to come to Boston and help Mr. Gilmore makea Peace Festival. Of course real critics, likeJohn S. Dwight, loathed the whole thing andsaid so. (Dwight absolutely refused to endorsethe Jubilee in the columns of his Journal ofMusic even when requested to do so by OliverDitson, his publisher. And he is said to havespent the whole week at Nahant, where thestrident echoes of the affair could not
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . IN OLD BOSTON 297 glad, after being carefully drilled by and his assistants in their home-towns,to come to Boston and help Mr. Gilmore makea Peace Festival. Of course real critics, likeJohn S. Dwight, loathed the whole thing andsaid so. (Dwight absolutely refused to endorsethe Jubilee in the columns of his Journal ofMusic even when requested to do so by OliverDitson, his publisher. And he is said to havespent the whole week at Nahant, where thestrident echoes of the affair could not reachhim.) But several good men had a hand in thecelebration none the less: J. K. Paine andDudley Buck directed their own compositions;Eben Tourjee led, when Nearer, My God, toThee and other hymns were sung, and JuliusEichberg wrote for this occasion his tuneful* To Thee, O Country which has since be-come popular. The most marvellous thing about the wholeFestival was that, although it cost $283,000 itpaid for itself and showed a balance of nearlyten thousand dollars on the right side of theledge
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