is gracefully done by Mr. Guy Eden. The lyrics are magnetic and the music most delicately descriptive of the theme throughout. When Mr. Somerville has sacred music to present he seems em-hued with a true reverence, worthy of the old ecclesiastic composers. His touch is dramatic, full of colour and passion, yet dainty und soft. He shows himself ever to be thoroughly in earnest, and he has reached his ideal to an amazing degree in so young a composer, for he is scarcely thirty. Already he is "the fashion" in London, and has orders for work far' ahead, Nor is he resting on his well-earned laurels for he is deep in a comedy opera with a deyer librettist.
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