“No,” in a conscience-stricken voice, “I did not forget, Fenny, but I thought it would be fun to take care of the children.”
“But it was disobedience, Rolf, just as much as your coming into the nursery at that time you took advantage of my absence first, and then of your mother’s. I think a brave soldier like your father would call that cowardly. Now, I want you to listen to a story about the bravest boy of whom I ever heard.” And as I stroked his rough head I told him the story of Casabianca and the burning ship.
(To be continued.)
Novello, Ewer and Co.
Concone’s Lessons. Fifty Lessons for the Medium Part of the Voice, and Forty Lessons for Contralto, or for Bass and Baritone.—It is needless for us to recommend sterling works like these, the value of which has been acknowledged for so long a time; but we may call special attention to this admirable new edition, containing, as it does, a completed system of phrasing and expression marks, a correction of the breathing points, and a careful revision at the hands of Mr. Randegger, the well-known professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music.
Stanley Lucas and Co.
The Return of May, a choral trio for female voices, is a very clever piece of three-part writing, with an interesting independent accompaniment. It is by Amy Elise Horrocks, and the words are those of Mrs. Hemans.
Fly, little Song, to my Love.—A most charming ballad by Alfred Cellier, whose writings are always graceful in melody and uncommon in harmony. The constant repetition of the initial phrase becomes a little tiring, beautiful though the phrase undoubtedly is.