The literary digest . ems arehandicapped by branch lines tapping mining regions of earlierdays, but now largely abandoned or extending into areas for whichthere has never been a sufficient demand for railways to justifytheir construction permanently. If left to themselves suchlines Avould be clearly insolvent and abandoned, but as parts ofa larger system they have constituted a drain on the earningsof the remunerative lines and the State commissions have ingeneral refused to permit their abandonment. The time wouldnow seem opportune to make a study of lines of (his character inorder to ascerta
The literary digest . ems arehandicapped by branch lines tapping mining regions of earlierdays, but now largely abandoned or extending into areas for whichthere has never been a sufficient demand for railways to justifytheir construction permanently. If left to themselves suchlines Avould be clearly insolvent and abandoned, but as parts ofa larger system they have constituted a drain on the earningsof the remunerative lines and the State commissions have ingeneral refused to permit their abandonment. The time wouldnow seem opportune to make a study of lines of (his character inorder to ascertain where they may be abandoned and to removethis drain on the railways before they are turned back to theirowners. AMERICAN COMPOSERS TESTED BY HOFMANN HOW FAR AMERICAN MUSIC stiU has to go toreach classic levels was revealed by the recent recitalof American pianoforte pieces by Josef Hofmann.;Mr. Hofmann frankly devoted the daj to li^ang American com-posers for patriotic reasons, to encourage their further and better. Copyrighted hy Bain \e\vs Service. A CHAMPION OF AMERICAN MUSIC. Mr. Hofmann believes an entire recital of American piano musicwortiiy to hold its own in the world of harmony, tho critics doubt. efforts, and was undoubtedly under no delusions about theirpresent place in the music world. The effect on the audiencepresent is said to have been not electrical; and from the critics itevoked a plea to have such good things served them in moderateportions. Most of them failed to recall, as one pointed out, thatmasterpieces occur about once to a generation, so contemporaryproducts could not hope to stand up alongside the whole rangeof musical literature. Mr. Hofmann is credited with entire goodfaith in offering this program, ha^ang gone so far as to put intowriting in letters to The Musical Courier (New York) and to , of the New York Tribune, his motives for such a de-parture from customary recital programs. He expresses him-self convinced that the war will in
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