In the Days of Mozart. By Lily Watson. (Religious Tract
Society.)—Miss Watson has made a judicious use of the character of Mozart. He appears occasionally in the course of the story, as the precocious child and lad who astonished Germany by his early genius. The hero of the tale is a young musician unknown to fame, who leaves his home sooner than sacrifice the great ambition of his life, and dies before he reaches it. He makes an interesting figure, as does also his sister and protector, Elsa. All the acces- sories of the story are very well put in. Maria Theresa, kindly but imperious ; the lovely Marie Antoinette, for whom the young musician cherishes a romantic passion ; the foppish Minister, Kaunitz ; and the calm, benevolent Haydn, with his evenly balanced mind, so happily free from the common defects of the artistic temperament, —these go to make up an excellent little "company " for the drama which this very pleasing story unfolds for us.
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