sented in the chorus and {t 1s well that Shanghai, in giving encouragement to this musical enterprise, should know. that besides attendance fat the concerts, practical help could be forthcoming by joining the Society. The privilege of being a patron can be secured by the payment of $10 0. year. If carries with It certain advantages in the booking of seats but more important still It gives the organisers some ground for the conviction that their perseverance and self-sacrifiee—in grappling with the initial trials of foundation will be ultimately rewarded by the estatlishment of the, Society with its bank balance on the right side of the passbook—it a passbook has such a thing asa right side nowadays. Coleridge-Taylor's setting of Longfellow's poem is well-known and "popular 50. to-night's concert should give Shanghai a real musical treat. "Hiawatha" has the grim dlstinction of being the most parodied poem in the English language. Thi has sometimes blinded readers to its merits, Yel, with all deference to and, Indeed," in the highest spirit of respect for ihe moderns, Longfollow's ines still have a charm of their own and there are folk who ore young and yet old-fashioned enough to de-Mght in the Sang the song of Hiawatha Sang his wondrous How he prayed How he lived, and tolled snd suffered That the tribes of men might pros That he might advance his people!
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