The Seventh Annual Report of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust,
Dunfermline, contains some interesting particulars of the small rural libraries scheme and of the good work that is being done for English music. The Trust is publishing ten volumes of Tudor music which has lain forgotten for centuries. Sir Henry Hadow says that " if you could imagine that the Elizabethan drama had been lost and now rediscovered, it would not be an extravagant parallel," for our Tudor musicians wrote " Church music as fine as that of the great masters of Flanders and Italy —Orlando di Lasso, for instance, and Palestrina." The Trust is also assisting British composers of promise with the publica- tion of their works or, in the case of large orchestral compositions, with copies of the full score and the band parts. Moreover, the Trust is supporting the admirable musical festival competitions started by Miss Wakefield.
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