On Monday last, at Grosvenor House, a concert was given
in aid of the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, at Upper Norwood. Few objects could be more worthy the help of the charitable than providing means like this, by which the blind can have as their last solace the delight of afford- ing to others such pleasure as they gave on Monday. Though it be but sad comfort for them, the deprivation of sight in a crowded concert-room is an assistance to the full enjoyment of music ; and people who come to listen not unfrequently make themselves temporarily blind. The placid, rapt attention on the faces of the blind when listening to Mdlle. Redeker's grand voice was most touching ; and it will be a long time before we forget a tenor song by one of the blind, wrenched out, it seemed, purer and more pure from his very heart,—and rising to the heights of dramatic pathos upon reaching a passage in which the greatest of the consolations of the blind is referred to.
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