The very numerous attendance at the Cathedral on Tuesday was a tribute to the excellence of the programme arranged by Mr. R. B. Hurry and to the fact that the playing of Mr. F. Smit, solo violinist, has been consistently appreciated. Mr. Smit was given plenty of opportunity for displaying his many fine qualities as a violinist, and interpreted pieces of widely differing character with fine sympathy and undoubted skill. Old English composers were ro-presented with four delightful selections for the violin, with organ accompaniment, and the sense of antique moods and feelings remote from the present was charmingly conveyed. In marked contrast, though of the same periods, were the selections from J. S. Bach, F. Bach and Rheinberger, to. which also Mr. Smit gave most interesting interpretation. The Cathedral Choir sang three carols in excellent style, and were perhaps best heard in the first one "O little town of
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.