Programme . or the other—a difficult matter to while, in one mood, the answer is on this side; another while, inanother mood, the answer is on that side; and it would be the heightof intolerance, we think (intending correspondents may perhaps be in-clined to remember), if either answer should be regarded as a sign ofhopelessness on the part of the man who made it. Having made thatpreliminary statement, we may reassert our own view that in a plebis-cite on the subject we should plump for the Seventh. Comparisonsneed not be reiterated, and in any case they are singularly futile; butup


Programme . or the other—a difficult matter to while, in one mood, the answer is on this side; another while, inanother mood, the answer is on that side; and it would be the heightof intolerance, we think (intending correspondents may perhaps be in-clined to remember), if either answer should be regarded as a sign ofhopelessness on the part of the man who made it. Having made thatpreliminary statement, we may reassert our own view that in a plebis-cite on the subject we should plump for the Seventh. Comparisonsneed not be reiterated, and in any case they are singularly futile; butupon purely aesthetic grounds we make our preference. We wouldwager, however, that not nearly so much glory would have issued fromthe performance of the Seventh at the opening of Bayreuth as fromone of the Ninth. Men are often used to judge by difficulties. Hanni-bal has more glory for^crossing the Alps than has Scipio for Hannibalsultimate defeat. IT^S A FOWNES THAT^S ALL YOUNEED TO KNOWABOUT A GLOVE* ,-27. HAROMAN PIANO A tone that is rich, full, sweet, musically beau-tiful and a strength and order of construc-tion that resist the strain and use of climaticchanges,— this is the kernel of Hardman prices and easy terms. Established in 1842. BookJets of information. Hardman, Peck &f Co., Makers Fifth Avenue and 19th Street, New York Represented in Boston by the COLONIAL PIANO COMPANY 104 Boylston Street 28 A Faust Overture Richard Wagnhr (Born at Leipsic, May 22, 1813; died at Venice, February 13, 1883.) While Wagner, conductor at Riga, was writing Rienzi, he keptthinking of Paris as the one place for the production of his opera. Hearrived in Paris, after a stormy voyage from Pillau to London, inSeptember, 1839. He and his wife and a big Newfoundland dogfound lodgings in the Rue de la Tonnellerie. This street was laid outin 1202, and it was named on account of the merchants in casks andhogsheads who there established themselves. The street began atthe Rue Saint


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