Prizes for Entertainment Programmes.
Two prizes of $10 each will be given by Harper's Round Table for the best programme for evening entertainments. Of course the programmes must be new. The performance should consume at least one hour, and be open to both sexes, any age, and from four to an unlimited number of people. Use your ingenuity, and devise something funny and interesting. Write the particulars of it in full, and mail them to Harper's Round Table, New York, not later than December 15, 1895. Competition is open to everybody.
A full list of all prizes will be sent to all who ask for it.
Prizes for Music Compositions.
Four prizes are offered by Harper's Round Table for music compositions, competition open to everybody. The two first prizes are $5 each, in money; the two second, fifty engraved visiting-cards, winners' names, with copper plate for future use. Compositions must be plainly written on music paper, and forwarded not later than December 15, 1895.
The following, "A Thanksgiving Song," requires a hymn composition, with the four parts—soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. Here is the first verse:
"For sowing and reaping, for cold and for heat.
For sweets of the flowers, and gold of the wheat,
For ships in the harbors, for sails on the sea,
O Father in heaven, our songs rise to Thee."
The other one requires the soprano, or tune, and piano accompaniment. Here is the first verse: