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THE CHINA MAIL.
JHAT you pay for when you buy any sauce is
satisfaction—rest, enjoyment, hearty appetite- not merė balk.
There are cheap sauces which cost much lêss than the genuine LEA & PERRING,
-They can't give the same satisfaction; and if you have to use more of them, where is the saving ?
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COMPOSER AS RACONTEUR.
Sir Frederic Comen's Rady Stories.
Bohemian. Franks of the Famous.
Those who imagine that the musician's PURCHASE. and SALE of Stocks and life is all toft and costaay, conilios and Shares afooted.
passion, will find some delightfully sur- TRAVELLERS CHECKS sold prising pages in Sir Fredoria Cowen's reminiscences, just published, under the Of Sis Bikla of My Art and My Friends. Fredorio's genuine distinction as a com. poser and condunter the world hardy needs to be reminded. But throughout bis rich parrative of a long, busy, sud brilliant caroor there things a tempora meat that in proverbially zica among eminent musicians the temperament- ci the cheery philosopher, baking fo's rough with its smooth, seeing the bright
'GEO. HOGG,
Managery No. 8, Queen Boad Central, Ingkarg, October 21, 1913
TTANDEL...
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appointed that no single one of his four may transfer at their option balances of OTAL 80,000,000 (£5,000,000.) operas has been quite a success. He $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND PAID-UP
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{' ...f. £5,000,000m (£ 3,750,000--) librettista and partly to our national FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PËR CENT. par
|-1 8,239,158, -(£ 687,680.) Mack of patriotic enthusiasm where rousie is 'concarned. But be none the less resta content at last with the many triumphs that fortune and good work Lave brought him with his six sym phonics, bis suites and oratorion, his innumerable cantatas and songs, and his
sroom.
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conductor of the Philharmonic Society, are the Handel and Cardif Festivals. Not least, he has been happy in hi friends. In the 80 years that have passed since Piccolomini took him up and kissed him as a baby-boy, Sir Fre derie has been in every part of th world from Australia to Csasda-me
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allowed screzioniously to present t Garibaldi in a box at a gala performanc at the old Hor Majonty's Theatre. A a young student in Berlin he played to the Express Froderick. (then Crow Princoss) and one of the young Princes (it may have been the presen Kaiser himself) would insist on inter rupting my performance, and was car ried out of the room by his nurse."
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Later on Si Frederic was to bav the privilege of an interview with Quoco Victoris, and to be one of a small.com pazy-which included Irving-to "hear the Queen of Bümanis read one of her own plays, with a view to production.
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PADEREWSTI AT BILLIARDS.
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But the heart of the book is the genial camaraderie that is reveals, both in the social and the musical world. Sir Frederic is equally capable of enter
Kodi Ghattam
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Burnand's dinnertable, where on ocossion the present Lady Bancroft tied (with) (he late Linley · Sambosma in s
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"It was no doubt very childish,”* writes Sir Frederic but it did us good and kept our hearts young."
MUSICIANS' PRE
them.
Is anyone should thick that Sir Frederic's follow-musicians are salves lacking in the comis spirit, he. gives us quite a choice little "collection of musicians' jokes
**My Friend Alexander Mackenzie (who is.. perhaps, the most inveterato joker of us silį once said to me, with reference to an oratorio by Parry, when shoes was a question as to whether the work should be performed at the Albert fall the Queen's Hall. I think it rught to be done at the latter place, for what can be more appropriate than to
five King Saul in Queen's 'all! ***
Here is one of Elgar's puns. When nie overture "-Cockaigno" was produced I asked him which was the correct way o write the word, as some people spels "Cockaigne" and others "Cockayne"; to which he replied: "Oh, it's etheri," Some of the pros were unconscious, is, fca, inutaneo in the case of the grows Richter, at a time then his English was
not flueat :-
"
Once, when he was releasing, bo said to the orchesten, with regard to come pizzicato passage: *Gentlemen, you must not play that with the nails of your fingers, but with the most.*
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"Another time he and his wifa wono invited to stay in the country with some friends; he had to return to town the semme evening, but his wife was to remain thera for some days. When going to Ospons, Large, mill-Sin Kat the booking-office at the station he said: Duscs-Ap
I vant two tickette to, one for me
Doves,--Pan Kat to some back, and one for my wife-ücé
Tyga, Hen-Kai Tan 30 come back!'"
Among the trials that Sir Fredric | Forks,Coatca,—Exi- has survived, it is to be noted that he classes the burden of fame that has come to him as a sentimental song writer :- "I had the misfortune to write a song for Antoinette Sterling, called The Better Land." It has, like a Fren kenstein monster, haunted me ever since. When I have wanted to be quiet a coroet has played it in the streob. When I have thought to read & loo onlogium on myself in the papers it has been the chist topic of the article. And to, add. to my injuries, while the fiend was silli in his infansy, I parted with his copy wright! Over tais lab circumstance I
ughh, perhaps, not to grumble, received £300 for the song-nob a bad sum for about an hour's work."
"Hardly less troublesome was another, equally famous:---
One song I wrote, The Children's
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Brinjals, Green,-Ching Yuar
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minical passings-away and transporta tions to heaven of little children than any severe epidermis of mesales in real the evening," or whether he is playing life ever could be. For a long while ducts with Lisst...be discovering Brahma | afterwords nearly all the songs were and Bulow drinking their beer!" in a cast in this infanticidad mould, and I café, which was not exactly, fashion- was always afraid of opening any sets Canton Fresh Water Fial able I had an introduction to
of verses sent to me in case I should be Brahms," says Sir Frederic, “but I loomed to read about the inevitable Carp Za did not think it was quite the moment little child, with a faded flower in Ita to make myjdź knows."
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It is good to know that Sir Frederia | Craba" "B "We would sometimes go and have is of ppinion that the present-day, ballad a game of billiards together," or cles is a great improvement on the Vistcelan occasionally he would come to my house, typo He has, by the way, some and leave behind him not only lasting amicusly trenchant kaings to say abouk memories of his wonderful piano play the Weish working-olaan, who, his avers, Ting, bus more expensive in the are little or nothing the music per form of jacred strings and brow in hamse," and about the ill-effect of money- Kymers. Ho was not, socuriosed to the prizes upon the Eisteddfoda, from which touch and mechanism of d ́amall Broad- "many adjudicators have had to be wood grind,
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