To the Editor of the Noxrn-Curva Dany News, Sre,—Considering the "mall for pulation of our city I think we may that Shanghai has x very fair number good amateurs, vocalists us well as strumentalists." Viribus wnitis something might be done creditable to the musical life of the city, the more so as every fellow-citizen of this community talented in some way or another acknow ledges the unwritten law, which provides as a matter of public duty that she or he should now and then appear before the public and exhibit the talent she or he may possess.
The ratio legis is that Shanghai is not Inrge enough to attract professional stars riga rule. Song and play we must have to brighten up our life and for this we have to rely upon our amateur artists. Neither are concerts wanting in Shai Our two local professionals do their duty in an eminent degree and several societies and clubs organise concerts of various kinds and styles during the season when the residents of this gay capital of the Far East always put in an appearance, realiing the old German rule Wo min singt, dort set' dick lieder, Bise Menchen haben heine Lieder."
As befits this cosmopolitan place, nationality makes no difference, and at the various concerts you see all sorts of nations represented not only in the audience but in the orchestra and on the stage.
"Anglo-Saxon, Frenchman, German, Scandinavian, everybody, gives a hand.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.