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LAUREL-CROWNED TALES

ABDALLAH; OR, THE FOUR-LEAVED SHAMROCK By EDOUARD LABOULAYE

Translated by MARY L BOOTH

RassELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA By SAMUEL JOHNSON

RAPHAEL; OR, PAGES OF THE BOOK OF LIFE AT TWENTY From the French of ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD By OLIVER GOLDSMITH

THE EPICUREAN By THOMAS MOORE

PICCIOLA By X B SAINTINE

AN ICELAND FISHERMAN By PIERRE LOTI

PAUL AND VIRGINIA By BERNARDIN DE ST PIERRE

THE STANDARD CANTATAS Their Stories, their Music, and their Composers

The ”Standard Cantatas” forms the third volume in the uniform series which already includes the noell known ”Standard Operas” and the ”Standard Oratorios” This latest work deals with a class of musical compositions,rapidly in favor both with composers and audiences

As in the two former works, the subject is treated, so far as possible, in an untechnical manner, so that it may satisfy the needs of musically uneducated music lovers, and add to their enjoyment by a plain statement of the story of the cantata and a popular analysis of its music, with brief pertinent selections from its poetical text

The book includes a coin of the cantata, and its developraphical sketches of the composers; carefully prepared descriptions of the plots and thethe names and dates of composition of all the best known cantatas from the earliest times

This series of works on popular rown in favor since the appearance of the first volume on the Operas When the series is completed, as it will be next year by a volume on the Standard Symphonies, it will be, as the New York ”Nation” has said, indispensable to every musical library

THE STANDARD SYMPHONIES

Their History, their Music, and their Composers

The usefulness of this handbook cannot be doubted Its pages are packed full of these fascinating renderings The accounts of each composer are succinct and yet sufficient The author has done a genuine service to the world of hest character is aided efficiently by this volume The mechanical execution of the volume is in harmony with its subject No worthier volume can be found to put into the hands of an aton_

None who have seen the previous books of Mr Upton will need assurance that this is as indispensable as the others to one ould listen intelligently to that better class of ratulate the to appreciatively enjoy--_Home Journal, New York_