tion of Kings,
not out of any bared to Kings, but tyrant."
In 1674, n the 66th yer of his age, hé diel ol geut. His body was hurled in Si, Gilas, Cripplegate, and a monument was erected to bla memory in Westminster Abber.
I bave said that society deals capriciously with authors-li did so with Hilton. In his own day ho was the "Regicide, be Adrocate of Regi- cidex," the "blind adder that spit his venom on the King's persen;" mad noon after that he was the mighty orb of seng. The Prince of Posts, The Divine Milton."
Time does not admit of any more detailed description of his life and work, In regard to the Biek, it may be stated generally that his patience and conscience were led by all the calamities which break down the spirits of com- mon men-by sickness, by poverty, by blind. ness, by the Ingratitude of his chlidren, and by the hatred and malice of the fick's courtiers of the uma
It is difficult for any one who has not tho roughly studied the Character of the age at Charles the Second, to which his later fortunes were cast, to filly reverence Milton,
In days of fawning and servility he was Repubileon. He was * Celitian amongst many who were in fidels, and a man of pure life amongst sensualists.
In bis own domalo of imagination he was one of the greatest wikers that ever lived. Though his poetry was serious, it was bright, healtby and vigorous. He was neverthelise doomed to ace stopla postustera beir away the shining rewards of letten. We'l might be declare in the bliterness of his son that he had fallen on exll times.
A high-soled fnd I decodest Puritan, he was surrounded by daxelute scribblers who, to use the words of an accomplished critic, could be compared to "nothing to fily as the rabble in Comus, grottiqan monsters, balf bestial, ba'f human, dropping with wine, bloated with glat. lony, and reling in abscene dances. Amidst these his Muse was pls ed, lofty, spotless and telene, to be chiesed at, potated at, and grin. ned at by the whole table of natyrs "and goblins
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rach as handle the bip and the organ." There is no mention la Holy Writ ofthe practice of music more than 600 years after the Fland.
Vocal and instrumental • music however are spoked of in Genesis un things in ate 1700 years before Christ, and thus Laban sald to Jacob "Wherefore did thou fles away secretly and didst aai tell me that I might have sent thee away with mbth and with songs and with the tabrat and the harp."
We have also the songs of Moses and Miriam at the Red Sea, and the miracle of Stul being delivered from the power of the evil spirit by the skilfot playing of Darid upon the harp, King David amongst bis numerous accomplishments is mld to have been able to play upon thirty different lastruments. Murde was held in high estrem amongst the Hebrews, And in the 15th chapter of Chronicles It is asserted that 4000 of the Leviies were appointed to prolit the Lord on Instruments and that the number of those who were instructed and cunning is song w 248 It would not be out of plɔce here to men- tion that in these later days, the Hebrew vate has given us come of our finest singer äad com-
posers such as Pasta, Halevy. Mendelssohn,
Meyerbeer and Braham,
The arts and acterces of the Egypilano were 1800 years B,C, carled to the inkabliants of Greece by colonip's from Fgypt.
All knowledge of the music of that day bas been lost by the lapse of years but it cannot be conclude that the maste of Greece was oliber rude or barbarous, Amongst a people so fined and ingealous from whom poetry, painting and sculptore received the greatest degree of cultivation, and by whom music, a ölster sit, was so much exteemed, it is un- reasonable to suppnie that music could have been the only are which was allowed to remain in a state of ba barism. If we turn to th: lite rature of that day we fed from the testimony of those great historians Aristides and Plato that
"mode was calculated to compose the mind and fit itlər Instruction, that it was to the mlad what air is to the body." At the Olymple games there were musical contentions lasting for The genius of Milton is worthy of all the
dayt. 400 years` B.C, a temple was built by Paricles at Athens f:rmusical competlil nr. His- adcafration we cant award to marvellous fotel-tory relates that to excel in mesle in those days Jectual endowment, He was a most profound was considered an accompit hment fiting the scholar; a of immense learning and greatest rank and govest character. I WAS cruditon. Bat C should admire him for said to be the foundation of all scioeces. The more than this. However much we may education of children was begun by it from the differ from his pligious and political optalons, perssalon that nothing great could be expected we should reverence him for his lofty moral from a man who was ignorant of music. A courage as well as for his patience and resigns.volame might be written on the subject of the ilon under the dliest and most pair falafil cilons, 11. Jahnson obrves that as large werks were performed under discountenance, and in bilodness, but difficulties vanished at histoach. He was born for what wer is arduous, and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first." Dryden in a private letter said of him " This man cuts as all out and the sacients 100,""
In conclusion, let me remsik that Milton stead forth a the uncompromising descate of popular principles of government, and as the formidable delender of the commonwealth. He was firmly and zealously ached to the freedom of his country; the darling passion of his soul was iba 1.ve of liberty.
However much we may refuse to accept nome of his views, we can removed as we are by the lapse of mere than two centuries from the event 1 times in which he lived at least admire his magnificent moril courage and impathise with many of his dealies, whilst we tow down before his superb ftellectus! :quirements.
practice of maple in Greece, and of the effect which it is rald to bare had upon the people in the way of raising paklotism and courage.
Platarch relates that Terpander by means of his music appeased a violent sedilen amongst the Spartans. Thucydides declares that when the Lacedemonians went into battle it was their practice to play soft music for the purpose al preventing their courage fr m becoming too im petuous. Are we to regard such statements 20 simply apochrypha}}
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Christiang. They were in-thodlard and arranged and universally adopted hy the Eastern Chu ch. St. Augustine, the 1st - rchbishop of anterbury, was the emissary of Pepa Gregory and to him and his succes1015 England was indebted for the establishment at Canterbury of a school of Ecclesiastica Muile, which for many years furnished abla instructors to thoss anxiod t acquire knowledge is that direction, it is hard to say what became of secular music during those centuries. As an art it apparently only just arfited from the roth to 14th centuries. It seems to have led a vagrant life and to have fallen principally to the lot of the minstrels of England and Water and to the troubadors of the South of France and of Provence.
In the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries music had many ups and downs. It is impossible for me in a short sketch to give you any adeqants idea of the victusfindes through which it passed. la the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth it prospe ed exceedingly. Good Quein Bess was iberal to the profession of an accomplishment she herself loved, and she protected and encour aged sacred and secular music which had suffer: ad much du ing the reigns of Edward VI and Mary owing to the fluctuation of religious fictiona The Partens as we all know were hilter enemies of musle, for in 1571 and 1586 they palitioned parilament to put down all Cathedral | Churches where the service of God was gele vously abused by piping with organi, singlog and owling of postms, with the squeaking of chant. ing choristers disgülsed as are all the rest in white."
In 1643 not only was the cultivation of Sacred music checked but it was dearly sonibilated, Organs were taken down, orgafa's and chǝtemen reduced to beggary and music was fa fist.proscribed,
The fine arts are in every sense the arts of Perce, of the periods during which music and literature bave mate the most considerable studies. towards perfection have bain calm and manquit. No war to be readily understood is so fatal to arts as ci il war. In the reign o! Charles the 1st the loyalisis were attached to the ancient rites of the Church which included the vie of organs and voices, but if they had one custom which more than ano her excited the choler of the Puritans it was that of celebrating religious servicer with good music.
The Cavaliers la their turn were equal enemies to the coarse and clamorous pialmody of the Puritans, so that noiversal and reciprocal intol erince precalled throughout the Kingdom for wearly half centory. In the reign of Second Charles mus clans sabs'ated chiefly by means of the Royal Household Establishment, the mu nificence of the King and the employment of ibelt services by the hoblity.
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There Handel stefices the strings, the melting strain Transports the soci and thrills through every vets.
is not until the some@bat ripe age of 53 that he commenced his sacred orstarlos, those mighty works which will ever be a mannment so ble memory-The Mesilab, his Masterpiece, was performed for the 1st time in castoas la. Dublin la 1743 for a charity. We England in 1741. It was given on two oc- hear a great deal of ibe very tall structures which indies now a days wear a hats and I bel ore that lately the cry of "Hats off" has beta appled to ladles lexicad of to gentlemen in Cor cert Halls-But in Dublin at the second performance quite a different complaint was made-for the following notice was fasued, "It requested as a favour that the ladies who honour the performance with their presence will come without their Hoops us It will greatly increase the charity by making som for mere company. This was the first sugger- ties I know of refering Indirectly to the divided skirt,
It is not an exaggersilon, so much as an his- torical act to state that the Oratorio of the Messiah is almost the only work of art which for more than 150 years has gone on thing Algher and higher in public estimation "an torched by time, uastralled by progrees." It contents and satisfies the most fastidfags and it adapts self to all intelligences Our children's children and generations after them will enjoy this divine music as we and our predecesors have done,Of this there can be no doubt, and the more refixed the mailcal taste of our nailon becomes the mo e wilt Handel's sacred osto- Tina be appreciated, inithoroughly exyed.
Late in life, like Homerand Miton Handel was afflicted with blindness. The last 7 years albis || exls' race were smitten with that "Total Eclipte, no San, no Moon, all dark amifit the bli of Noon," of which he in his Oratorio of Samion bad surg so touchingly.
Handel was a devoit and pirus Christian, is related of him that he prayed that dealb wool overtake tim on a Good Friday "in hrpts of meeting his Good Ged, his Sweet Lord and Saviour on the day of hiresurrec len "merolog Easter Sunday. If this true pater was granted for an died on Good Filday 1759 la his 75th you
In farther proof of his devotion to the doctrines and doles of the Chritian religion may be quoted hḥ own remark "I do not wish to enter talu people, but to make them goo1", and also the fact that by an annual performance of the Mesih be added a sum of no less than £10,300 to the fands of the Foundling Hospital.
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There was however very le occupation And certainly the Lives of Handel and of for them. There were no concerte or public Mitton and their respective characters are worthy amusements save the theatre where their talents of admiration and of loltalon. They were bath. could be made avaliale. Here agile history reat man, glasts and natuscs, but what is repeat fiself, for owing to these clicumstances, helter they were gentlemen and Chels fans la ard to the fact that under the guidance of a pro- the fullest acceptation of tho'e terms. The Algate Court the rige for dramatic representaremaalos of Handel rest in Westminster Abbey tions of licentious nature was excenive, music amidst the bones of the Posts of England and In England manifestly declined in the 17th Cen- for 138 years the voices of the choristers of tury. The student of history will not fall to re-
that famose Abbey Choir, and the fall and collect that exactly the same result occurred so mellow notes of is unequalled organ have
da ly floved in thrilling harmony over his bal lowed tomb.
In other countries and notably in Italy and Grimany, we are told by Dryden is 1680 that "music flourished exceedingly Italy wasthe mo ther of learning and the Arts and they were re
ored and cultivated to auch an extent by famous Italian Marlers that all Europe was cá- riched out of their Teksty
The beauties of the Italian School were exger- ly studied and adopted by German Professors and the consequence was that the musical taste of Gremany was not then and is not now stir- passed by that of any other country.
Germany was and is Intries!cally a musical nation
and the names of her compostis and labaitour, they Die imperishable
Always solid, patient, were not satisfied with mediocrity hat strove to attain excell- ence. Add in this the pure Inspiratios of gentus and the productions of Handel, Hardo, Beet- hoven, Moza, Dach and others need not be wandered as, ad this, ladler and gentlemen, bilags me to the calderation of the subject of my second sketch, Handel.
In the time of Xenophon fate and barp plasers received most extravagant rewards and alss for human nature that writer semarad, I
bid performer wishes to pass for a good one-far as ancient music was concerned during ba how must he do it ?. We must frahate the great reign of that despicable and loathsome Emperor flute players. They no remarkable for expend- Nero who is at to have played his fiddle when in: large sum on rich furniture, and for appear Rome was in flames tug in public with a intre number of servants, Hi must do likewise." I am afraid there are a good many professions (owadays in which similar means are reported to with ecoratɔna) succ:34. The moslo, drama, and iterature of The character std accompil:bments of Militon
Greece were all transferred to the victorious may be summed up as follows:-Milton was a
Romans existed as i reign, rather then You- man not only fextraord any genius but, as I have said before, of kamente learning and
wished as native arts. Music sankunder the decay eredition; not only
of the Empire ani bring mixed up with Immoral Incomparable poet, but a
Comedies and tragedies by influence was not great mathematician, logician, bistorian and lasting and it gradually fell into disrepute. Divine. He was wasier notonly of Greek and Under these circumsticces Its declle was Lain bat of Hebrew and Syriac, and also of the mach accelerated by the Introduction of the modern languages of French, Italian and Spa Cheallan religion. The early Christians did nish. He was well skilled in music and cou'd
not condame it as snert, they condemned the patam vocally and instrumentally. His private circumstances which accompanied its perfor- Hfe was regalated by the maxime of Religion mance and Jasily regarded with aversion the and Peilosophy. He was ploos, temperate and the characters and made of living of those who fest and firmly attached to what he thought were the best terests of bis country. He was
made their profession. Raman, flute players and musicians were notably addicted to wine ever animated by the love of liberty and virtue. In his way of living he was an eximple
and were equently anable owing to their of
Inebilate habla to produce melodious sounds briety and temperance. He was foly spadog apes theft lostruments. in the use of wine and strong liquors, was ab- The only excuse that can be made for them alemlous in his diet, but did not despise the soci
was the infarlor posithe in society which was abis'pipe of tobacco. He was a Christian and a Protestan. He studied and admired the Holy had a bigh rank in the Republic and those ha assigned to them. In Greace weters and sirgara St plates above all other ba ke whatsoever, and in all his willigi ke shows a regidas turn of
were rateemed in the profession were ilberally recompensed. mind as well in verse as to prose, as well to bis orks of an earlier dats, as in those of later Cemoliton..
Thron bout: 118th century bilkan's religious and politic plaions were out of vogue, and consequently hire works were rarely, ilever, There is plessis and instruction to be fund in them, and they me ceilly worthy of atten
lon in the present day, w opinions such as they embody are gating so in the chil capitate of Europe.
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And now la fes and gentlemen it only serialas for mas to draw a parallel between these two great and powerful men, and tough Mhandled years het re Han el was born it fe no very hard to do so. Both physically and mentally there was remarkable similarity between them. They were both men of the h, hest charities and of the brightest Intelligence. Milten was no man musiclan and a musician is a poet. They were both afflicted with blindness Th-tr best works
were witten. Ise 1. They bolb certain periods Dl their lile were steeped in poverty, Milton was Inanlied sad hunted by adveramila tud was certainly once bankrupt. Handel asing to the machina lons of his enemies was made a bankrupt an two ncession, In their literary and musicil effets they were both animated by the same feelfugs and the same desires. Their object which happily for the salon is being accomplished was to enill the best and deepast sympathies of the people-ta elevate the sac daid of thinght and of living-and to leave a permanent press of good upon the rosders and hearer of their Immortal works. The Hindel was one of the strong men of the Hires of both were excentvely laborious-but earth, who do what other men dream. Foty nothing, no even biladness, could dannt iter reven reary of bis long life were spent in Eng.
energy or damp their spil. A week before his land. The powe fallafuence of Els great genius death Hindel was present at a performance of pre rated the inmost recesses of English life, the Merlab. No one however fickle or liv:laus It was directed in gizat maugare to the cal (v. can I think sead Milton's imperishable Request. allen of religioas music which was most con. Paradise Lost, or its'en to the divine stalos gents! to the feellogs of the English nation. For of the Martha, Israel in Egypt or Judas Mac- these reasaca Englishmen feel a sort of sight to cabeus wilhout feeling "the Delty Withle calm blah as one of their own composers and
tort sketch of his carter should be interesting to probably benifitted thereby.
at least beleg profoundly Impressed and British colonists everywhere. He was the sonatady the domestic or inner lives of there No, one can of a physician, was born in 1684 and was intend two great men without admitilog that in esch ed for the Law. At an early aga however be manifested so great a passion for music that his and love. In the mind of Milton there were case they were adorned. by viter, humility Friher wisely allowed blm to eater the musical purity and piety absolute keen love of tralb, e profession He studied first at Hamburg and keen love of his country. Handel throughout his then in Florence, Vealce and Rome composing ille was a man of blameless morals and mani yi Handel arrived in England, and to the conversation he would frequently express the Stored Masle for Roman Catholic worship-Infested & deep and rational sense of religion-io the perderature and poetry, which marked pleasures he had in sefing the Scriptures to that perled of our history, he added the blandish music and would declare how much the Feilma ments of learned muile which he brought to, of David bad contributed to his ediflos planted and lived to res fourlah in the land and calm and even temper of mind. As to of bis ad plon. In these days operatic per Milton-He turned many of the Psalms of David formances on the Envllah stage were of the most primitive character. It is fact, though one
foto verse, and after the holy Scriptures, Chapter hom which be read or bad read to him every morning, his favourite author was Homer, whose 18 Century English, French, and Italian singers works he could almost sil repeat without each sang their respective parts in his native book. Linguage i
The Grass held that any one connected with Art ought not to be looked upon as in any way degraded by that connexion. In Rome la case was exactly the riuris. When the Grecian drama was vansplanted to the Imperial City, St. Augustine rays "The ancient Romans account. ing the Art infamous, ordained that mea con- nected with the Drama should not only want the honour of other Chizens but also be dis franchise and throat out of their tribe." When the lore the practice of music fell to the lot of those who were uiterly careless of their own 10. patulon it necessarly fell into disrepale and its fofusce for good was an end. For how long this lasted I am not in a posilon to but probably ant!! Christianty bad become ablished on somewhat firm footing. I Od 1. shall be able to Tve to your at action that the riv Chaisiaus loved
They acknowledked. its power must:. Having thus disposed of one of my giants, I raising an ustalaing religious fervour la con- must now proceedio deal with the other, and I very much fene that in this case I bave goder. | Rregullons. They regarded it as an important difficull of belief that at the beginning of the and affecting manner. Its great influence was means of addressing Divinity in a most sublime therefore acknowledged but the sphere of it influence was for many years marrowed within exceedingly precise limité.
In England the fame of Milton rate ladaily upon his poem. Whether we take tho alone falo cur consideration or couple with then his other wring", we can never say of Millon, hat been said of come-
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Lie raked up with their ashes in their um And not a spark of their eternal dre Glows is present bosom.
taken a most difficult task. Is there any ore bere who can tell me what the origin of music wat Is there say one prosent who can describe the growth from the caritest ages of the
"LI guage of the Emollɔną “ ar fraco that growth from its infancy to its présent state of perfection? And is there any one in the Colony who can account for the influence bich music bas dot only on the cultivated and what may be called the musical periton of the world, but upon the Ende, barbarous or uncultivated remainder?
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Some of these matters are really more the aleging together and answerleg each other by
Business of the antiquary than of the modern musician. And, I think it will be well for us to svold discosston so the subject and simply adopt the decision of Lucrettas. He says ---
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And taught him songs before his aut þegis And while soft eventig gales flow depinis And shook the reeds, they taught the Sys And thus the pipe was franted and tunsial reed. Now, if we cannot adopt this ides the only al- tarative is to say that the origin and infancy of music ate Involvid in total obscurity.
There is not the slightest, debt that musle was practiced (in a rude form perhaps) anongat the Egyptians a500 years B. C. We have only to visit the Belifik Museum to me that moic the 4000 years ago many instruments that we now see, though là a somewhat different shape, were known and died by those people. There In fact nothing new under the sus, for la the acultures we see karps differing from each other in size and in the number of their atsings, lyres guitars, pipes, kaitle drums and the trumpet.
Palio, the learned Jew and historian, in writing of the nocturnal assemblies of the exly Chris Alans relates "that after supper their sacred songs began. When all we dilice they selected two chairs ans of men and one of women. They then chanted Hymns la honour of Gó1, now
toro. In this practice the antiphonal forms of chanting evidently had its origin. Sacred music w extensively used by the pilaliive Christians and yet it is evident that prayer and song were ciently distinguished the one from the mibar, as
you afflicted, let him pray. Il merry let him sing psaima." It is not probable that during there mak any new form of maile or of har- mony was invented. Solema and simple Faalm tunes borrowed from the rebrews worn doubtless adapted to Christian
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The loss of sight to those glints was an awful warning. And it is hardly possible to believe that the adversaries of Hilton had the cruelty to reproach him with his bladners. His answer to that heartiers charge piores the magnanimity Knividerg of his mind and the strength of his piety. "To Tordenskjold be blind" he says "is not mlverable, but not to be † Centaur ......... able to boar blindness, fast is miserable indeed, Dagmar......... Let the Slanderers of the judgment of God cause HotkowIONSHI their selling. Let them know that I naliber Tungchow naminia replac at nor repent me of my lot. I acqul Laos (1 esce in the Divine WI. Neither am I con Yamaguchi Moru..... cerned at biing classed with the blind, afflicted, Ermarolds........... miserable and weak, as for that ranson I hate á nearer claim to the mercy and protection of the Portfde... Father. I derira consolation in my Drumaliam.........
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These ancient people considered that music was a gift of funpiration to be appropriated to the service, and dedicated to the honour of those fabulous deldes by whoso kiadness it waE supposed to has been imparted to man, So
The learned and active Pope Gregory wana much for the Egyptiane. All that we know of
preal musician. It wit he who collected the the music of the ancient Hebrews we learn
musical fragments of such ancient hymns and from the Bible,, "Tabal” the 6th in descent peaine as the firzi falbers of the Church had Tram Coin le culled by Mezen & the likes of ali | approved and recommended 10 ike primitive
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OR cleansing and clearing the blood from Fires it cannot be too, highly recommended.
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The effect must have been lacongraons, not to say absurd, and Handel fully recognising this at once laid the foundallon of the epera, as we know it, by engaging and introduclog into Esgland the most eminent Italian slagers that coold be found. He was connected with the opers for spwards of a quaster of a Costary and produced no-leathan-15 of his own works. One of his eariteat and most successful was Rianide :d the music seller who published It is said to have made $1,500, by its sala. Some one, I do not know who, calates that when Handel beard of those prodis he wroteas follows to his publisher. "Daar Sir-As it isonly right
shell compase the nex! opera and ♬ will fall it."
He had a very formidable rival in one named without dificulty to desplas my revilers, and Bononcini who was at first supported by the wife both great arists the following (which was
mill less difficulty to forgive them," nobility and gentry agafost Handel. The con-
To tention briween these rival composers was so written of Milton) equally applicable falus that Deas Swift, a good bateria his way. At their windows the pest and musician sal vented his feelings to the following lines, the
The
wasm balmy breath of summer and thefiz- last two of which bid fair to become immortal,
grance of iwers Home say that Bigger Benancial
Lattice told them of eagle through the open
the Compared to Handel is a lany
bright creation without, While other say that to him, Handd
whose larelizess their sightless eyes might Ilyas to hold a candie
never see again, till they béheld unsealed the
SCOTT'S. Emcision of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Better Lind, whilst the soft low tones of the eras Hypophosphies, is which they loved and the conversation of their valuable remedior, in a palatable and esally combination of two most friends attened their hears to patience and re-digested form having great healing and stung- resigns:los,
There oft they mused, rkh in thickly crowding low and wailing diseases. Read the followleg
thening properdet, most valuable in Consump- He received a pension of £100 a year for the fancles that wont forth over the wide bars and Scott's Emulsion of gent composition of a Te Deum at the peace earth, gathering fresh images of stately beauty benet in the treatment of phthisical and of Utrecht. George the rat who was for and upscarlog into the companies of spirits of scrofulous diseases. It is extremely palatable merly Elector of Hanover also awarded him good. There they taurinda while, amid the and does not upset the stomach thus reming a farther allowance for music composed in com- Recrets of Eterally, until they were stayed only the great difficulty experienced in the adestalsira Bole memoration of his accession to the English | before the throne of Living Light,
Hon of the plain ofl."-D, F. KEWWA, LAR.C.S., throne. For some yeare Handel lived with the In conclusion I have only to thank you most Surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, Any Earl of Burilagion and in his, noble house, the sincerely for the patient hissing you have gives Chemist can supply it. Sole Agents for Hong, "Old Barlington" house in Piccadilly, he was La "Two Small Skitakes el Two Grint | kong and the Empire of China Wything de Cory
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