16 DECEMBER 1899, page 14

Poetry.

THE GREY MOTHER. (TO AN OLD GAELIC AIR.) [The Colonial Volunteers proceeded to the front—Public Prem.] Lo, how they come to me, Far from South seas swiftly Long through the......

Music.

THE VOICES OF THE ORCHESTRA. MANY of our readers are probably familiar with the historic passage in Schumann's letters in which, writing on Decem- ber 11th, 1839, he describes......