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12 THE TIMES, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1910. aged and Viking like Norwegian. He was dealing with the question of the relation of Governments to missions, and he happens to have given a large part of his life to work in the island of Madagascar, where, as our columns have revealed from time to time, these relations are peculiarly difficult. He did not the difficulty, but he was speaking out of a long experience to younger enthusiasts in the same cause. Take care, he said, in effect, that, if you as a missionary bring a complaint against a Government official, the offence is big enough to make complaining worth your wlule, or.

rather, worth while the cause that brings you here. In other words, satisfy yourself most carefully that the civil power is not your friend before yon denounce him as your enemy. Advice like that, coupled with Mes. Creichton's urgent plea at Wednesday session that use should be made of the proposed School of Oriental Studios in London, showed that the Christianity of the Conference was ready to go into amicable partnership with the secular administration. But the common sense, the common language, and even the common worship of these thirteen hundred delegates are not of themselves sufficient to explain the unifying forces that acted upon them more and more persistently as the Conference drew to a close.

Only willingness to reconsider the postulate that the age of miracles is past will put where on the way to an explanation. Doubtless there wore thoae present who by temperament and by tradition are readv to join hands the slightest encouragement with men of any ecclesiastical system and of the most rigid doctrinal They have no difficulty in accepting the principle of common action. and they need no miracle to urge them direction. But the Conference included members of the English Church who are not so constituted nor so situated men who perhaps never before in the whole their distinguished lives have found themselves in such a company for such a purpose as on Tuesday last. They have sung the Doxology often, but never before joined in it along with Parthians and Medos and Elamites stfll leas with Presbyterians and Methodists and Baptists and Friends and Brethren of thanksgiving for the unanimo of a resolution which tends towards missionary co operation at home and abroad, impossible in this connexion to over the value of the contributions made to the discussions by the Bishop of who may be fairly taken as an admirable representative of the class of Churchmen to which we have referred.

It was his fate on Monday night in the Synod Hall to follow breezy American divine who had been every where and had seen the humorous side of all that he had met, and after whom it seemed hard to restore a late meeting ness. But the Bishop succeeded then, and on Tuesday at the Assembly Hall he encountered still greater difficulties, which, if he appeared to feel them more, he overcame with less success. For the subject was unity and co operation, and the immediate purpose that the Conference should resolve to form continuation committee," of which, as are glad to see, the Bishop has agreed to be a member. It is anticipated that this committee may lead to a permanent international mi tee. purely consultative and advisory, yet full of hopeful possibilities in the saving of missionary wastage and the improvement of missionary method.

How, it is being asked more particularly by a few members of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel how can such an one as the Bishop of Sotjth wabe justify his action Tuesday and Wednesday gave the He can work for unity because he is and rema; conscious of disunion. He can work for unity which will not exclude the Romans and the Orthodox Churches of the East, and ii this he had the splendid support of Bishop Bbent, for the American Episcopalians, and of Dr. Wabdlaw Thompson, for the English CongregationalistB. That there are doughty Protestants in the Conference and doughty Angucans ouisioe it wno rrom opposite tremes resent tne bishop utterances may he taken as a sign that the millennium has not arrived, but not as a proof of its indefinite post ELECTION INTELLIGENCE EAST DORSET. hta Colonel J.

S. Nicholson (XL), andidates Mftjor Gue6t (K Polling. June 30. Liberal majority last January 426. It is understood that the King had intended to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Mr.

Charles Dibdin, Secretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, whose death was recently REVIEW OF PARLLME NT HOUSE OF COMMONS. The sitting yesterday was short and uncon troversiaL The consideration of the Small Holdings Bill in Committee was resumed, and an amendment giving the first clause a retro spective effect was agreed to on the motion of Sin E. Strachey. The clause provides for compensation for disturbance to tenants on whom notice to quit is served with a view to the use of their land for small holdings. It was estimated.

Sir E. Strachey said, that the amount of compensation payable would not exceed 1,000, but in order to make sure that sufficient funds would be available, the Treasury had sanctioned an expenditure of 2,000. The second Bill dealt with was the Census Bill for Great Britain, which passed through Committee after Mr. Bows had accepted an amendment in order to satisfy members who desired that there should be a Report stage, and after some conversation on the question of a language census. The County Common Juries Bill, which had come down from the Lords, was read a second MR.

BLRRELL AND THE CONFERENCE. ceting of Liberals i seemed only Mr. Birrell addressed a North Bristol last night. In the course of hi speech he sak moment either actively preparing for or in the ve middle of another General Election, at which main issue would have been the. propriety, wisdoi a big and difficult question, and though POOLE, Jcne 24.

The candidates were duly nominated to day at Wimborne. give tne omciai liDerai view oi me thought it did them political situation in the division I should like ber that they had ot to make it clear that the Guests are not by any moans the onlv great territorial lamiiy that great East Dorset. Taking the division estate by happened, unexpected and deeply dspkM 1 themselve i prepared, full of courage a estate from north to south one finds that there are the following considerable landowners General Pitt Rivers, Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Salisbury, Lord Alington, Mr. Munro, the Sheriff of the county. Sir Richard Glyn, Lord Norman ton.

Lord Wimborne, the Dowager Lady Dunsany, Lord Eldon, Lord Malmesbury, Mr. Banks, and Mr. Bond. While all are popular with the tenants, it is a remarkable circumstance that upon nearly every estate but that of the Guests there is a conspicuous divergence in the political views of the tenant and those of the landlords. It is not meant by this that there is an actual majority of Liberals on the estates of all the Unionist landlords, though oven that is so in at least one instance, but merely that on most of the Unionist estates Liberalism is professed and preached with courage and confidence.

Mr. S. T. Pike, the Liberal registration agent, was. elected to the countv council at the last election for thi Cranborne Division, which is chiefly in Lord Shaftesbury's territory, by a large majority over his Unionist opponent, and a farmer renting from Lord Shaftesbury beat Lord Alincton himself by a majority which exceeded Lord Alington 's poll in a division upon Lord Aimeton 8 own estate.

JLnis indeoend creditable to tenants and landlords alike, and it indicates the absurdity of talking about intimidation at least in the rural districts of East Dorset. The Liberals meet the charge that Poole the pocket borough of the Guests by pointing to tne electoral nistory oi tne division sin 1885. which shows that even before Ladv Wim borne joined the Liberal Party the Liberals gained the seat once by a majority of nearly 700, and that the majorities against them had never been overwhelming. They claim that, apart from Lady Wimborne's influence, they could have won the seat at any time within the last 15 years with a good local candidate. The people are aggrieved, they say, because their free choice last January has been set aside, and they have been angered by the language which has been used of Lady Wimborne and her sons.

When Lady Wimborne result of the petition she was received by i great assembly of Liberal women with tears Wimborne itself, however, the Liberals allow to be predominantly Unionist, and they agree witn tne unionists uescriDing warenam be even more so, but thev are just as emohati as their opponents in claiming the majority of tne villages, and sucn places as uncnei, witcn amp ton, Rushton, and Cranborne, all on the estates of Unionist landlords, are especially Nonconformity is very strong in many of the vmages, parucuiariv in inose Detween wi borne and Alderholt, a stretch of 13 miles. The differen I mates of the two parties in regard to the village of Caniord, Lord and Lady Wimborne's model village, is unusual and amusing, tor, while the Unionists declare that it is, of course, wholly Liberal, the Liberals protest that it is hopelessly Unionist. A mere stranger must leave the Question there. but Lord and Lady Wimborne, I am told, let tneir six roomed cottages tne village witn zu percnes oi iana to tneir own workpeople for a shilling per week. In most places sucl treatment would give the landlord an almost unquestioned influence over the village but we have seen that on other estates in East Dorset, where the landlords an and as highly spoken of, the tenants exclude such considerations from their minds when they are going to vote ior a memcer oi ramament.

It is interesting, bv the way. in regard to registration law to notice that the Revising Barrister allows the vote to lodgers in those shilling a week cottages, though it must surely rooms in a house, the whole of which is rented for 2 10s. THE POSITION OF MR. BURT AND MR. FENWICK.

Proxy voting at the Northumberland coUierie! was completed yesterday on the following resolu tion That two candidates be at once selected be in readiness to contest Morpeth Borough and thi Wansberk Division at the next General The result was announced in Newcastle as follows :216 against, 3Z7 majority against. 111. our great Empire, illuminating many of its dai part and bringing out in bold, clear relief the feati of our complex political and social organization. BTRRRlisaid: Fung Edward was not only'oonten greatest constitut ioaalmonarch that ever lr (Cheers.) Not only had he no quarrel with necessary limitations upon arbitrary autho imposed by our Constitution, but he gloried in th (Cheers.) He was proud to be bound by such horn able and noble limitations imposed bv a free Const tion and a free people. (Cheers.) Therefore the late Kins, like the true born Englishman he was, played a gionous part in tne anairs oi empire, acceding the rules of the game, and attaching as much in a nee to them as to any prerogative of the (Cheers.) King Edward set us ail a great mted t.

as if they wanted days we found people 11 directions. We sav sd by their language as if they be judges, and great politicians, and poli he IndeDenc but will cease rho refused to sign the it Labour Partv. will be official candidates of the be opposed LIBERAL VANS. The president of the National League of Yoi Liberals, Mr. Runciman.

has placed at their disposal vans for propaganda purposes, and to day the first I this series will leave tbe National Liberal Club o'clock for a tour through Kent. It will make rst halt at Bromley, where a public meeting will be eld this evening at Heaxted road. at 6.30 p.m. it her meetings will be held in Bromley on Monde nd Tuesday, after which the van will proceed hortlands, Pcnge, Beckenham, (Roword Division). At a fully attended POLITICAL NOTES.

i to MEMORIAL OF LIEUTENANT BOYD ALEXANDER. Mr. FeD has given notice of the foTlowinc bv Aliens, To call attention to the question of interference in British politics by that, in the opinion of this House, the sub scrintion of sums of money bv aliens or foreigners associations anu ran as oi a political cnaracter to be deprecated as an attempt to influence the opinions of the electors in a way that may be The Select Committee appointed to consider the Civil List proposals met yesterday for the A whip has been sent to members of the Nationalist Party urging them to attend the House of Commons on Tuesday for the Accession Declaration Bill, and a party meeting will be held before the House meets. A whip will be sent out on behalf of Protestant members against the Bill. a memorial of Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, of the Rifle Brigade, who was killed at Nyeri, In Central Africa, on April 2 of this year, in tbe 3Rth year of his age, and of his brother.

Captain Claud Alexander, of tbe Scots Guards, who died of fever while engaged mote suitable place than its ancient and beautiful church could be found for a monument object a committee ha, been formed, wtth the Earl JS, "PPunity of Cranbrook as president; and the proposal has the ZJTZg Lvf' i jW1 PTOr 7 poses to ask whether it is intended to issue Tte mJ? whn fvTtZl FfriodicaUy official announcements from 10, cSbuSont obl d1t hSJtlt yu rT'XK6 Conference and will kindly allow this noUoe to appear in your columns. muncement will be Subscriptions may be paid to the Alexander Fund to answer any inquiries with regard to tbe proposed Quring hig neIt Repertory season at the DukTof Mr. Wedgwood will ask the Prime Minister report before the House rises for the i and whether, in the event of the Conference arriving at any settlement, an Autumn Session between thos nd tobe civilians, and for all Edward set us all an example of simply observing his duty in his high place, and had tbe great reward of the affection of his people. (Cheers.) Alluding to the chairman's reference to the Ve Conference, Mr. Birrell said I quite agree if thi very well be made the subject of sensible remarl but then I do not know by whom those sensil remarks would be read or criticized.

Therefore, I will allow myself, and one only. It is this That or loose, Therefore, do not be agitated invent them is unreasonable and ridicule object of any Conference must be to discover agrecj ment, now mucn agreement mere is, now iar goes, to what it extends, how far it win carry. It is obviously the duty of any persons engaged in any such task as this not to invent compromises but to made, or if it is unsatisfactory, I assure you all, the most enthusiastic politician amongst you, that you witn all your rights prcscrvea ana ame to ngnt hard, and I hope as vigorously, with as much go time comes. (Cheers.) anybody mpromises The town hall of Chippenham was crovrded yesterday afternoon when Lord Lansdownc's Foxham estate, comprising seven pasture farms, several small holdings, and 35 cottages, was offered for sale by Messrs. Ferris and Puckridge, of Pewsey.

Lord Lansdowne ha of that policy whic irranged to suit the co ho Lord Lansdowne 1 i of the opportunity now So keen wa disposed of i At the annual meeting of the Cardiff Liberal Association last night Mr. D. A. Thokas, M.P., who has sat in the House of Commons for 22 years, announced that he would not seek re election at the Mr. Thomas explamed that he found the del pressing.

the I that the Goi ad not found it possible to utilize his servic rav. not even as a member of a Roval Comn Sir Clifford Cory, M.P., who presided, expressed List, a declaration that ii did 5 fault The Home Office has communicated to the Parlia mentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress the result of inquiries which have been made with reference to certain trades which the commi sought to have put on the list of dangerous trade Office Medical Inspee Dfionous substances within section 75 of the Factory and Workshops Act of 1901. When lead is used in copper works it is already necessary to provide proper washing appliances, and pending further information the Home Office inspectors will be instructed to press upon manufac ir i.i io: effort has been unable to discover evidence Strawberry Bed. nxious time, and is often seen dropping tit bits trough the netting to her hungry brood below. Recovery of a Lost Child.

A boy of CharingCrosZ the wife of a merchant of Shanghai, who was on a risit to this country with her son, went to Syston to stay with friends, and before leaving London engaged I nurse. On Thursday afternoon Mrs. De Negri went out for a drive, and on returning found that the nurse and child had disappeared. A number nf trunks had been ransacked and 35 in gold and notes several valuables were missed. Information tained that the nurse and child had travelled to London by the 6.10 train from Leicester.

Detective ult of his inquiries in polite Metro otel and has not been The Training ship Wabsftte. In the resence of between 400 and 500 visitors Mrs. William ootrMitchelL wife of the member for Dartford, 200, were exercised on deck and characters. Addressing reminded them that those ing for support, I lads. Mr.

Foot Mitchell entering the Navy could wild me prospect, oi appeal had recommended that given to shins traini the object of increasing the number of British seamen, and that was the object of the War spite. It was most unsatisfactory that at the present i Departmental Com MarineSot behalf of the committee of the ty, said he had no doubt that King i follow the example of King Edward patron oi tne society. Among those Kato (Japanese Naval Attache), Major General Sir MUSIC. THE SNARE OF MEMORY. In a recent issue of the American periodical The Musician there may be found an interesting article on among Great Pianists.

The malady is practically identified (no doubt with considerable justice) with fear of loss of memory, and many harrowing anecdotes related but the writer never gives the faintest hint that the whole difficulty may be purely unnecessary. It does not seem to have crossed his mind that a great pianist can possibly play witn the notes in front of him with all ite tortures and all its dangers, memorization is, as it were, a law of the Medes and Persians. And this view is very widespread many teachers rigidly insist on memorization, many examination syllabuses enforce it as indispensable, and in the great world that is simply fond of music it is a sort of hall mark differentiating the professional from the amateur. The young iaay pianist who can only play with her may be an embryo genius but, except among those who know, she will always be distanced by her sister who can play by heart, however There is, of course, the obvious from the social point of view, of freedom from tne trammels of porterage but, after all. this very practical advantage is of necessity umuicu mj penormera wno are strictly sell sufficing singers and string players have no share in it.

This would be a slender founda tion lor so imposing a superstructure we mus look further. It is urged that music is no really made part of the performer's self oi more baldly, that it is not properly learnt unlees it can be reproduced by heart. Stress pages in front of the eyes, on the conveniences of assisted or unassisted turning of the leaves. Authontativeness, personal rapport with the audience, is (so it is argued) otherwise largely lost the listener wants to feel, without any visible contradiction of the fancy, that soul is speaking to soul direct, without any such mundane intervening medium as printer's ink. But if such are the supposed advantages what are the actual nnriemahle, HiaHvLaM i The wear and tear of nervous tissue involved in memorization varies according character of the music and the temperament of the performer, though it is always there to some extent some energy that might otherwise be employed elsewhere is always being diverted ouiy too wen aware) tbe mental strain is very great.

If this were all, we might be content tobonourthe memonzers as heproic exemplars of Art but it is very far from being all. It stands to reason that the time a nianist saves from memorizing may be given to the enlarge the desk, the literature that can be kept concert shape is increased a hvindredfold. yet the main disadvantage no human meme is infallible. Mnemosvne is a emiel nrlri every day throughout the concert seaf mangled fragments of the tmnt mmivm offered up on her altars. Let us take practically iwso oi memorized penormi are not as absolutely faithful in minidicB non memorized performance would be.

Palpable collapses in solo plcying are no doubt rare mere is general enough ranacitv get along somehow, if memory proves mom tardy treacherous. But in works where the conaDoration oi others is involved break downs do occur; one of the most famous of an uving nopin players has been known stop dead, in apologetic ignominy, halfway tnrougn tbe hnale of the minor concerto Short of this, all kinds of crimps arn commit every day in Mnemosyne's name the recoUec those whose opportunities iv have heard, at the, hr of the great artiste of the worlrl arhnU pages of Chopin or Schumann omitted or replaced by hasty extemporizations they may place in one of the Toccatas again, and only at last escape from the charmed' circle by strenuous and obtrusively anachronis tic methods. Ihev mav hnvo hrH who could honestly have asserted that they knew the great classical eemnewtoa ltt4Md do things that bring cold agony to the foreheaeis ana con uctor they may have heard page or more oi pieces that meir accompanists were reading at sight. Or again, consider the ways of singers. It is extremely improbable that any operatic performance is ever absolutely correct in nnf rhythm, and nuances.

Have such ensembles as tne enu oi tne second act of Dte MeiaUrsinger, whatever been rendered with perfect accuracy! or has Albench ever invariably sung the riht. notes at the right times Such larjses are doubt, inevitable they are part of the heavy ce that music pays for opera. The strain wno sing oy neart is of irse far less but here, too, human nature erts its rights often enough. It is not at You saw yoursoulV reproduced with hopelessly mixed pronouns; and strange things happen with memorized German and Italian. Even when singers read the words and trust to their memory only for the music, unrehearsed effects con iuauy occur as every accompanist knows his sorrow.

No personal blame attaches any one for all this kind of thine? mimirai performers are only human, and in all probability there is not one, alive or dead, whose record in this respect would justify the ig of a stone. But. after all what good Operatio performers must needs be i pursue tneir own path as best they can hy should artists whose work i nnt the stage follow their lead No doubt there are the obvionslv nrtiml advantages. The memorizing performer, if a singer, needs no second copies (whatever is possible at home, no singer on a platform can read over the accompanist's shoulder) if a pianist, he needs none. Further, there is no tung with retractory sheet music held at length there are no Droblems of stands for the violinist, or of page tiirning for the pianist.

But all these things are not of essence oi Art we nave no right let them weigh in the balance unless there is a rigorous certainty that they involve artistic drawbacks. Nor, indeed. is the problem of the turner over (it is a pity there is no convenient English name for this functionary), which looms so largely before many pianists' vision, really very pressing in the great majority of pieces the player can turn for himself somewhere or other he will anyhow, well enough not to need to keep his eyes glued to the notes nor to turn exactly at the bottom of the page. But the assertion that a piece has not been properly studied unless it is performed by heart cannot pass muster had Joachim not learnt the Kreutzer Sonata or a Rasoumowsky quartet after sixty years' acquaintance And so with the arguments about authoritativeness, rapport has a conductor with the score in front of him, an ensemble player, an oratorio singer, none of these things It has not become the fashion to conduct by heart, and yet (except in complex modern works), it is far the simplest form of musical memorization any one well acquainted with the Beethoven symphonies could pilot the whole nine by heart and without catastrophe at a moment's notice, even if quite inexperienced in the use of the baton. And if Joachim's playing whatever I Wagner's Dich The mundane medium was there, Vised d'artc were given with much stranger however.

He might have been able to play all conviction, and the climax of the latter was mad his ensemble literature by heart, but he never effective by the volume of tone with which have tried. It is on record, indeed, singer was able to sustain the high notes and that he once materially increased the value of a copy of the first violin pan oi mozarc i maior auartet bv an autograph of a dozei bars written along the margin, simply because the bfc i inconvenient, and he would i nary. The weight of convention is heavy on even the noblest musicians all honour then tc those, now an increasing number, who use their notes, and decline for mere fashion's sake to strain their nerves, limit their repertoire, and sooner or later Dubliclv play more or less obtrusive havoc with the music. It would, of course, be absurd to impute anything like self display to more than a handful of memorizers the great bulk of them no doubt adopt the custom unthinkingly, and son are definitely convinced that the advantage are worth the price. But, still, there seems to 1 historically at the bottom of the practice a more or less decently veiled notion that the wavs that are good enough for all ense players, all orchestral players, all organists, the great majority of non operatic singers, and verv nearly all conductors and accom panists, are not good enough for the memorizers tney must De on a pouesuu wie umo light.

But why should things be made easy such wishes Every teacher knows ho1 pupils crave to play by heart long before they grasp the music really accurately from the notes changes of fashion in high places would soon show their beneficial influence in the world of the amateur. Not of course that memory is anything but a valuable gift deserving careful cultivation even in performing from the notes every musician necessarily uses it to some extent. It is an excellent servant but we need not therefore givi the chance of becoming an extremely bad master. Some may be able to learn by heart easily and preserve their nerves intact, and if their memories are excerjtionaliv trustworthy they may be able to plead that their musical is their repertoire as wide, is their general musical knowledge as deep, as might otherwise be And whv should all artists in par ticular fields, whether young or old, be forced in the name of fashion, and whether they like not, through the same tyrannous tread mill MISS MAGGIE TEYTE'S RECITAL. It was a happy thought to devote a vocal recital to examples from the repertory ot a single renowned singer of the past and Mme.

Dugazon, whose name is best known in the present day in connexion with certain soubrette parts in opira comique, was as good a figure as could be chosen to put such an idea into practice. M. J. J. Olivier gave a little lecture on the famous singer and her career, and Miss Teyte sang examples of the soncs belonging brated Dugazon roles.

The pathetic story was told of how Mme. Dugazon on the occasion of a visit of Marie Antoinette and the Royal children to the open in 1792 put so much meaning into the words Ah que j'aime ma maitresse," and accompanied them with so deep a reverence to the Queen, that the stormed the stage and compelled the singer te for her bravery by singing the Carmagnole." There were five sections in the programme, representing the Ave classes of her characters the juvenile, the sou brette, the sentimental heroine, the peasant, and, lastly, the mother. The first was illustrated by an air from Gretry Lucue, the second by from the Sena Padrona in its French dress. I Miss Teyte sang with charming naivete, and songs on an appropriately small scale, rising height of emotional expression in the lovely Je de lui parler la nuit," from Gretry's Richard. This song was perhaps the best thing the young singer did in the afternoon, and it was exquisitely done.

From Monsigny's Deserieur, Dalayrac'a Nina, and Dezede's Alexis el Justine choice examples were taken, and all were sung with full perception of their charm, both emotional and musical. An the success was an air from Dezede's Blaise et Babel group of peasant songs, and from the roles de were taken charming songs from Delia Maria's Prison nier and Isouard Le Mcdecin Turc. Mr. Sydne Stoeger accompanied with rare sympathy and excellent musicianship. Bechstein Hall Mme.

Yvette Guilbert was heard yesterday afternoon in a number of the songs, both French and English, which suit her best. No single word describes her unique method of artistie expression. It includes gesture, acting, speech, and singing (the last, perhaps, least of the fou and the beauty of the performance is that the hea can never analyse it into its component parts, tell exactly what it is which brings such vivid pictu to his imagination. Her performance was equally satisfactory yesterday in the two songs, Conseils a Rosine and J'avais pris mes pante by Rousseau, and in the monologue le jardin," which her able accompanist, Mr. G.

Ferrari, has set to music of a kind which gives her full oppoi tunity for the exercise of her complex art. French songs of the 17th century, including sue as the delicate carol Jesus Christ s'habilli and C'est le Mai," and some English folk songs, ending witn no, Joan, made tier programmi a popular one in the best sense. The songs given by her clever little pupil. Miss Mona Gondre, showed that Mme. Guilbert's art is one which can be taught, since the child seems to live in her songs and to convey their character to her audience almost as completely as does Mme.

Guilbert herself. IRISH SONGS AND HARPERS' TUNES. Mrs. C. Milligan Fox gave a concert of Irish music at Londonderry House, by kind permission of Lady Londonderry, yesterday afternoon.

The programme consisted largely of arrangements which Fox and otners nave made oi tunes wnich come into their hands from various sources. from the manuscripts of the late Edward Bunting, Dr. Joyce collection, and from the of Irish peasants. The programme was made up of music of two kinds songs sung to iccompaniment of a harp ana purely instru tunes cleverly played as harp solos by Mme. Motley and Miss Georgina Macdonald.

The songs the harp tunes have in some cases been arranged way which makes it very difficult, to enstinguisn original work from its modern surroundings. With the songs, however, which were sung by Miss Edith Kirkwood, Miss Fielding Roselle, and Mr. Harry Alexander, the same difficulty does not arise. part (for, except in the case of the Gaelic songs hiCh MISS njrKWOOa sang, me worua are generally lodern), and the accompanying harmonies by Mrs. Milligan Fox have the great merit of simplicity.

Many of the songs came from her new collection, Songs of the Irish Harpers (published by Messrs. Bayley and Ferguson), wnicn contains songs, some of which are quite of the first quality. The Red haired Girl," The Foggy Dew," and Farewell, mv erentle harp," all of which were sung with great character and feeling by Mr. Alexander, are among of the most beautiful metoenes in tne collection. gour with which she declaimed the last phiasea, The concert began with the introduction to tte second act of Humperdinck's Konigmkinder, which was excellently played.

Jarnefelt's now popular Praeludium was also given in the course of tte concert, and, as is usual when Mr. Wood's band plays it, it bad to be repeated. MISS GLADYS CLARK'S CONCERT. An orchestral concert was given yesterday afternoon in the Queen's Hall, at which Miss Gladys Clark played two Violin Concertos with the New Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Landon Ronald, and a group of miscellaneous pieces, which included a delightful Vabe by Olazounow and a small Reverie by Auer.

The two Concertos wen Mozart's lovely work in A major and Vieuxtempss in A minor, both of which are in their different ways a good test of a player capacity. Miss Clark played with a good deal of technical facility, her runs being neat and clean on the whole and her intonation generally true, except on some of the high notes she atao phrased well and gave the beautiful minuet movement in Mozart's Concerto with the right lilt. The orchestral part of the programme was made up of the Coriolan Overture, Tchaikovsky's Theme and Variations, and the delightful Somerset by Gustav von Hoist, which appears to be still imprinted. MISS HELEN COUGH'S RECITAL. Tbe playing of the young violinist who gave ber first recital at Bechstein Hall last night is remarkable for its pleasant and musical tone.

Miss Gough wsa careful not to attempt too exacting a programme. She gave only a Sonata by Tartini, some short pieces and Wieniawski's Faust Fantasia at the end. but as she had the help of her sister, Miss Muriel Gough, who sang Mozart's L'amero (with violin obbligato) and a number of other songs, using her light soprano voice gracefully, there was no lack of variety aad interest in the programme. Miss Helen Gongh was particularly successful in two of Dvorak's nnut tische Stucke," which she. played with strong rhythmic feeling and clear, refined phrasing.

Miss babel Hiischfeld played some piano solos by Chopin ta the middle of the programme. The Trots Booaeeeaiaas went well, but her playing of the Scherzo in minor gave the impression that she had laid the work asms for some time and had revived it without safldeatfe restudying it. THE EMPIRE CHALLENGE TROPHY MATCH. The Empire Challenge Trophy Match was Instituted in 1907 in order to mark the visit of the British team to Australia, and the Council of Rifle Associations of Australia mtaesd the necessary funds for the competition, which has formed one of the most important events of the rifle meetings of tbe Commonwealth. It ta, however, the wish of the Australian Aascrtstfaea that the match should be snot in different parts of the British Dominions, and it is with this object that the Australian rifle team has visited TUmIsmiI this year.

The match will take place atBWey on July 1 and 2, and, so far as is known at present, teams representing the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Singapore will compete for the trophy. The following are the conditions of the match (1) Prize a challenge trophy, to be held by tbe country winning the same until the next competition. (2) Open to teams consisting of eight men selected from the naval and military forces of th United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, and other unite of the and accredited by tbe row 1 ot i issued by the various Governments 500, and 600 yards on one day 800, 900, and 1,000 yards on the following day. (S) Number of shots ten rounds at every distance. (8) Poeotion as for the King's Prize.

Biskey, 1910. The team to represent the United Kingdom will be selected from the following Colonel the Hon. T. F. Fremantle (captain).

Captain A. 8. Bates (adjutant). Captain E. L.

Parnel, Sergeant Major J. A. Wallingford, Sergeant H. G. Burr, Private A.

G. Fulton, Armoury Sergeant J. E. Martin, Sergeant H. Ommundsen, Sergeant 3.

Runehnaa, Private J. Reid, Major T. Ranken, Sergeant Tippina, Lieutenant W. S. Newton, and Quarter.

master Sergeant R. Hawkins. The Australian team will be selected from ths following: lieutenant Colonel 3. 3. Paine (commandant), Captain T.

Pye (adjutant), R. W. TTBseslgh, L. Armstrong, J. H.

Williams, A. Cutler. O. E. Boyd, G.

Fisher, H. Goy, L. Grant, Burgoyne, F. M. Best.

J. HaOitan. and W. A. Pilbeam.

C. M. Lieutenant R. V. Cuthbert, Sergeant M.

K. Watt, Sergeant D. A. Walker, Sergeant T. Cheow Kim.

Sergeant E. Galistan, Sergeant 3. Long, Sapper H. N. Soper.

The Canadian team, which is due to arrives la Liverpool this morning, will be selected from the s' Private W. J. Clifford, Corporal Captain u. it. urowe, mvate w.

McHarg, Sergeant F. Greet, Sergeant E. A. Eastwood. Gunner G.

W. Sharpe, Lieutenant Drysdale. fjitonant Oolonel F.dwards fco Major Hutchinson (adjutant). Sergeant O. W.

Captain W. H. Forrest, Sergeant D. Melnnes, W. J.

Clifford, Corporal H. Whitehorne. Stock." Captain W. Hart J. A.

Steel, Colour Sergeant James Spit tel. of 2.104 noil ith 2,056 points and Great I points; and in 1909, whet MME. NOLDI'S CONCERT. Though Mme. Noldi had secured the help of r.

Henry 3. Wood and the Queen's Hall Orchestra for concert which she gave at Eolian Hall test night, she took the chief burden of the programme upon srself. She gave ueetnoven exacting seen Ah perfido," and followed this with Bach's lovely ia I eh ende behende mein irdischos Leben," together with the recitative which precedes it. Three operatic arias were also given in the first part, and chestra, as well as tbe lament from Purcell's Dido and Mneas. The scheme was in fact rather ambitious, for Mme.

Noldi powers are scarcely versatile enough to accomplish so much with success. cantabue passages ot Beethoven ana tbe beautiful quality of her vioice was enjoyable, but ratrasta between tnese and tne declamatory were too obviously studied to be genuinely dramatic in effect. She seemed to have somewhat notions as to how Bach's recitative should be sung, and she gave it with very little regard The Irish Nationax Theatre. In support of the appeal for funds for the Irish National Theatre, Dublin, recently published, a drawing room meeting was neia yesteruay oj lmoj ureroj house of Sir Hugh P. Lane, 100, Cheyne walk, Chelsea.

Among those present were Lady Falmouth, Lady Wantage, Lady Alice Shaw Stewart, the Boo. Mes. Noraan Grosvenor. Lady Mond, Lady Ridley, Lady Twi Geonre Cornwall ia West, Mrs. Winston Churchill, Mrs.

Colefax. Mrs. John Leslie, Mrs. Lever Birch, Sir lan Hamilton, Sir Edward Ward. Hugh Lane, General Lawson, Mr.

Henry Tanks, P. Wilson Steer, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, Mr. Spender, Mr.

Ford Madox Hueffer. and Mr. Austin Harrison. During the afternoon Miss Sara All pod. Miss Maire O'Neill, and Mr.

O'Roorke, of the Abbey Theatre company, played The Gaol Gats on a stag erected in the hall and after the ptey tha meats were addressed by Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer, Mr. W. B. Yeats, and Mr.

Hernaru esnaw, wno appeauses snr amhRcrintion towards the endowment fund of the Abbey Theatre, Dismissal or a Colpobxkuk. Mr. A. MacCallum Scott, chairman of the Gladstone Leaga Committee on Intimidation, calls our attention to as been employed as district agent for the Cte fatten Iportege Association, at Corn Castle, Beat. Shortly after the last General Election," says r.

Scott, complaints were lodged by a number of cal Conservatives with Mr. Noble's employers, and month later he was dismissed with two months' stice. In the opinion of my coirimtttes ths eorre which took clace between Mr. Nobis aad his employers clearly indicates that he is being mads to suffer on account of his political opinions, and my committee has resolved that In the event of ate such steps as seem desirable to indemnify him tot the loss which he has suffered." Workmen's Visit to Germany. The third party of working men sent out hy Mr.

3. A. Bridge to investigate the conditions of the labouring classes the Trocadero Restaurant. Sir William Bull presided, and tbe company InaWoi Major Archer Shee, M.P.. Messrs.

J. A. Bridges, King, R. B. Belli ios, H.

Goldsmid. Ramadan Tagor, and Vogel. There were 63 men in the party, and it was stated that 7 8 per cent, of them were Free Tradeem. The delegates all signed a report in which they stated that the food of the working lenses in Germany was nourishing and appetuing. and if not actually chispsr was crrtainly not dearer than in England.

"Mask" bread was a wholesome and palatable article of dint, regarding ths whiiluewls oaananm were without foundation. Taste inTMfcfarattana led them te believe that the a under which Germans worked, and the advantages of their social reforms, placed them ia a tunawfrn equal to the British working class, and in some rssporte better. The chairman explained that Mr. Bridges was a gentleman ot position living in Sussex. Bet had now sent out three parties to investigate matt others.

He repudia Mr. Ramsay MacDc S. Knowles, described.