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...which affords a rather unique oportunity to compare two different types of descriptive music--the Mendelssohn "Melusina" and the Beethoven "Coriolanus," each its kind a pure work of genius. In the "Melusina we find the same Mendelssohn as in the "Midsummer Nights Dream" music and in the "Fingal's Cave," with his wonderful poetic power of suggesting the phenomena of nature...
...remains of pre-historic monsters, and many adventures unusual in accounts of travel in the Indian country. Among the interesting events he will mention are a journey into the wilderness with the discoverer of the cliff-dwellings and an exploring trip for miles under-ground in a newly discovered cave in the Black Hills...
Following is the programme of the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall tonight: 1. Marche Hongroise, Berlioz 2. Waltz, "Vienna Blood," Strauss 3. Selection, "Il Trovatore," Verd 4. Overture, "Fingal's Cave," Mendelssohn 5. Rhapsody, "Pesther Carneval," Liszt 6. Entr'acte, Gavotte for string orchestra, Gillet 7. The Mouse-Trap, Koehler 8. Entree Triomphale des Bayards, Haevorsen 9. Waltz, "Harlequin s Wedding," Zach 10. Entr'acte, "La Colombe," Gounod 11. Polka, "Tyrolean," Zeller 12. March, "Hoch Habsburg," Kral
...linear writing. Up to the present time however no one has been able to translate them. The lecture to night will be of an introductory nature. On Tuesday and Friday nights the lectures will take up this ancient Cretan alphabet and the discoveries at Knossos and the Dictaen Cave. The three lectures will be illustrated by the stereopticon...
...this, however, contributes little towards understanding the nature and uses of money; still less towards comprehending the relations between gold and silver in the performance of that function. Until more is known about the cave of Machpelah than history has banded down, the statement that Abraham paid four hundred shekels for it throws but a faint light on the purchasing power of money in his time; while the proud boast that King Solomon "made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones," though enough to make Senators Jones and Stewart rank infidels, does not even suggest a ratio...