17 MARCH 1917, Page 3

The scheme, which is judiciously as well as generously planned,

is the most enlightened contribution to the encouragement of creative native art that has been devised in our time. It meets a difficulty which has long beset British musicians of high aims. The cost of publishing the score of a symphony or an opera at their own expense is out of the question, while publishers shrink from incurring the cost as a commercial speculation, with the result that " much of the best work of our composers remains unknown except to the limited audience which has heard the composition performed from manuscript."