28 DECEMBER 1912, page 17

Music.

MILITARY BANDS. THE primary function of military bands is admirably summed up in two lines in the " ..Eneid " in which Vergil speaks of a famous trumpeter, "Quo non praestantior......

Poetry.

NEW YEAR'S EVE. OH, let me dream, as Earth herself is dreaming In murmured songs and broken sighs of sleep! Oh, let me seem, as Life itself i3 seeming, A thought of God,......