Deaths.

Caunca.—On Jane 17th, Richard Arnold, aged 28, and George Edward, aged 26, sons of Alfred John and Charlotte Isabella Church, of The Wilderness, Olevedon, drowned in fording the......

The Fringe Of An Art : Appreciations In Music. By

Vernon Blackburn. (The Unicorn Press.)—The author writes charm- ingly of Berlioz, Rossini, Don Giovanni, Parsifal, and other musical matters. Perhaps the most interesting study......

An Analysis Of Mendelssohn's Organ Works. By J. W. G.

Hathaway. (W. Reeves.)—Though small in size, this book is full of detailed analysis, both of the organ sonatas and of the three preludes and fugues. Organ-players who are......

A Handbook Of Bible And Church Music. By The Bev.

J. Aston Whitlock. (S.P.C.K.)—It is a_ melancholy fact that any attempt to realise ancient music ends in failure. Music, more than the other arts, depends on tradition. Give......

Richard Wagner's Prose Works — Vol. Vi.: Religion And...

W. Ashton Ellis. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co. 12s. 6d.)—In this volume of prose fragments, many of which were hardly worth preserving, there are some good things to be found.......

Interludes. Seven Lectures Delivered Between The Years...

by the late Henry Charles Bannister. (Bell and Sons.) —The author was a musician of great learning and of conserva- tive instincts. He seemed to regard greatness in music as......

The Growth And Influence Of Music In Relation To...

By H. Tipper. (Elliot Stock.)—The first half of this book deals with antiquarian music, Greek, Chinese, and Mediceval. The latter half is devoted to the great composers from......

Der Ring Des Nibelungen. Described By R. Farquharson...

Illustrations by Reginald Savage. (Marshall, Russell, and Co.)—This description of Wagner's great work, or rather of its plot, is reprinted from Atalanta, and, though slight, is......

Applications For Copies Of The Spectator, And...

of business, should NOT be addressed to the EDITOR, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.......

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Publications Of The Week.

Adventures of a French Sergeant in Italy, Spain, &c., 1805-1823 (Hutohinson) 6/0 Assyrian Deeds and Documents, copied, collated, &D., by C. H. W. Johns, Vol. I., 8vo (Bell) 21/0......

Magazines And Serial Publications. — We Have Received The...

: — The Century, the Peal Mall Magazine, St. Nicholas, Macmillan's Magazine, the Review of Reviews, the Quarterly Review, the Carnhil/ Magazine, the Church Quarterly Review, the......