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    Books Received :— From ¦ Messrs Bbbbbflb...

    p him leasantnst must bits have of mad memory e this in ep his isode chequered one of life the .

    Before treating of his arrival in England , and of his influence on dramatic and sacred music here , Mrs . Marshall gives a brief but exact account of

    the state of dramatic music amongst us , and then passes on to note his various efforts as & composer and conductordwelling at some length

    on his ill-fated management , of the H & ymarket , Theatre , by which he lost ^ 9 , 000 in the course of two months . A chapter on his oratorios follows ,

    and then last of all we have an attempt to sum up his character and his work . From the same . —* The Great Musicians :

    Schu' of xnann this , ' interesting by J . A . Puller sketch— Maitlaad and it . is as The a sketch author and not as an attempt to supply a complete and

    ; exhaustive life of the composer that it is put forward—is , if we mistake not , one of the contributors to Sir George Grove ' s 'Dictionary of

    onl Mu y sic an and amp Musicians le knowled , ' ge and of evidentl music , but y pos that sesses facility not in reading German without which it would have

    been Teutonic impossible master . for As him Schumann to do justice ' the to the musician great wag to a very large extent the complement of

    Schumann the man , and as his life , like his music , was much , coloured by the circumstances in the midst of which he was placed , the author very

    the wisel history y devotes of the his times opening and chapters of his famil to y a surround notice of - ings . The development of the artistic period of

    Schumann ' s career , destined so soon to be closed by his melancholy and untimely death , is carefully describedand due regard is given to his

    work as a critic , , in which capacity his performances were interesting and almost unique . His marriage to Clara Wieck and the happy years

    which hd passed with her when the sunshine . seemed for awhile to play upon his life are duly chronicled , and then the clouds again darkened

    I ' and and th the e mental mental disorder disorder which which so so sorely sorelv tried tried him him gained headway . A carefully prepared notice of ' his leading pianoforte -works , -which will be an

    invaluable companion to all who play them or : listen to them , fills the next chapter , and there is evidence of much sound insight into the true

    characteristics of these works in many of Mr . Fuller Maitland ' s pages . When he says that in addition to their defects in technical form they are

    oftentimes marred by an entire lack of real unity between the movements , the justice of his verdict will be admitted by all but the blindest of

    hero-I worshippers . The songs and choral and orchestral works are next passed in review , and then we have an interesting chapter on Schumann ' s

    literary workmanship as seen in his essays in the musical papers of Leipzig . In a succeeding chapter the other side of the shield is held up

    and we are shown what the critics said of Schu- , which mann , have and due been recognition made in this is given country to tha in former efforts

    Mr day . s Manns by Sterndale and Sir Bennett George and Grove more to recentl bring y his by music to the front and do justice to it . The book

    as a whole is a very careful piece of writing and full of information . From the same .--- * Ail round Spain / by F . H .

    Deverell . Pew countries repay a visit better than a traveller that which who has is evidently here pleasant made ly it described his frequen by t

    resort arid "who is able to tell us not only of the ' ^ of greater their ' loc sig al hte custom / but s of ) in the village life < tf as the welk " jDeo as plo town and .

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    Andorra is peop 3 S throug full le of and are hout interesting the successivel country sensation and y as described lifelike th of ey book now sketches ; an aie d . the of There , book fhe I I I

    reader passes no on from page to page -making , but it as i 8 the I I p full leasant of episod record e and of a interest trip which . The must rural hav parts fen e bee io of n I

    " S book pain like are x th so is offers absolutel much y freshness out of the and world ~~ origi * th nalitv at \) a I I I of style . *

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    meadows takes ' the which reader crown to ' ( app the the borders - cliffs at of ) , the M the . base sea ' Haill , to of y I I I

    which 1 ^ the . ^ surges are heard to A break % ^ . ' Apple ft K -Bios — - I is som one ' is in a which novel the of the writer naturali has stic endeavoured order , bat to it I I

    retain the force and vividness of that school I without introducing anything that is calculated I to offend the taste . I

    From by A Messrs . M . "W . . Masters The autobiograp & Co . h — y ' of Moll a girl y Carew "whose , ' I I

    inheritance of an estate was made conditional on II brother her giving . This up all of intercourse course she with refused her to onl do y II II

    , though cause of she her duti temporary fully tended separation the uncle fro who m was * Paul th . * ' ( I I After the old man ' s death the cousin upon whom I

    Mol the l property ' s friend devolved and adviser , and won who her ¦ had as long his bride been I and she y thus forfeited neither , her inheritance nor , I

    her sisterly loyalty . ' Paul , ' the ¦ brother , lived near the wedded pair , and all three were * happy I ever after . ' I

    From the same . —* What is Right comes Eight / I by Frances M . Wilbraham . A tale of factor ired / I

    ' hands . ' A good conscientious girl is consp against by the forewoman by her gidd , y suspected companions of theft , tt unfairl ¦ , and y all courted treated her im I

    sshort troubles b bv hort y a a pre nrft bad bad , face fane and m man an bv by marries . , Miss M but but iss Yone Yongd she sne happ - gets trots e il commends commends y in hrough nrongn ¦ ¦ ¦ the the tne end an . book uooiv A m

    highly , and tells us it is mainly founded ¦ on fact . From MessrsJames ISTisbet & Co— ' Everjr I

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    | addresses Vicar Vicar Ot of , delivered Ol St . . . . Mark XYlllllV by ' b s , , Wolverhampton Mr v » uivc . JEverard r « aun ;^ when » , , t « he — he kej Wiis « -h «

    ti shal note tle l woul of see the d Him , we volum / fancy the e full , being have reprint been the ¦ | | an text of improvemen which ' Every as eye tlie t , the two words nless accompanied b tho **

    as alway title Everard scarcel s should y ' conyey convey language u , t to he is character the terse ¦ ¦ mind la , in of as y vigorous the a Uook titi rm , . j

    of Mr and . his Scri hearers ptural s , are and direct his appeals and ¦ forcible to , p th « . conscience , »

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1884, page 1452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121884/page/12/