30 OCTOBER 1909, page 18

Poetry.

AN EXPERIMENT. (HORA.CE TRANSLATED IN HIS OWN METRICS) (i.) ODES III. 12. How unhappy are the maidens who with Love may never frolic, Nor in wine-cup drown their sorrows,......

Music.

A NEW VIEW OF THE PRIMA DONNA. THE prima donna, as portrayed in earlier memoirs—e.g., the reminiscences of 3Iapleson and other impresarios or con- duotors—was an eccentric......