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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Tonic Sol-fa College, The

​TONIC SOL-FA COLLEGE, THE, is one of the few public institutions in England wholly devoted to promoting the knowledge of music. It was founded by Mr. Curwen (see preceding article) in 1869, in order to give stability and permanence to the Tonic Sol-fa system of teaching, and was definitely established in its present form in 1875 by incorporation under the Companies Act 1862. The College is chiefly an ​examining body, but it also carries on the teaching of music (mainly directed to the training of teachers) by means of lectures and correspondence classes. The buildings, lecture-rooms, offices, etc., are at Forest Gate, E., an eastern suburb of London, some twenty minutes' railway journey from the City.
The examinations are based on a system of graded certificates, arranged so as to test the progress of pupils from the earliest stage. From the elementary certificate upwards the power to sing at sight is demanded. The higher certificates are granted upon a paper examination combined with vocal tests, on the rendering of which the local examiner has to report to the College. The official report gives the number of certificates granted in the year 1879–80 at 15,755, which was 964 more than in the previous year. The number of persons entered in correspondence classes was 4729. The subjects of these were Harmony-Analysis, Musical Composition (four stages), Staff Notation, Musical Form, Musical and Verbal Expression, Counterpoint, English Composition, Organ-fingering and Chord-naming. Students from all parts of the world enter these correspondence classes. The College further organises a summer term of study, lasting for six weeks in vacation time, which is attended by young teachers and students from Great Britain, the Colonies, etc. A great point is made of the art of presenting facts to the learner, and of cultivating the intelligence as well as the ear and voice. The students give model lessons, which their teachers criticise. The total number of certificates issued by the College up to the present time (September 1884) is stated to be as follows: junior, 51,500; elementary, 163,850; intermediate, 44,073; matriculation, 3,367; advanced, 525. The receipts for the year 1883–84 were £1398, the payments £904. The total payments for the new buildings were £3635. Altogether the published reports of the College give an impression of a vast amount of useful work carried on with thoroughness and spirit.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Tones, Gregorian

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# A Little Child's Monument/A Tomb at Palmyra

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 9–10
Full twenty years and still I seem to stand, As then, aloft in the tall tower-tomb So far within the expanse of Syrian sand, Alone, where long long ages in the gloom Of yon stone shelves a human dust hath lain, That once breathed, brooded, dared, hoped, hated, loved! Awhile o'erwept, and worshipped with fond pain, How stealthily the memory removed From hearts who dreamed that never it could wane! Later, the men who built the tomb dispersed, Their conquerors were heedless of the dead; Race following race, remembrance of the first, Like some fair pageant of the cloud, is fled; They, and the memory of them all erased, Faint characters an idle mood hath traced In sands of yonder ever-wandering waste. The shelves are void an alien spoiler soon The dear embalmed remains hath lightly strewn Upon these raving winds that roam the wild, For ever to be scattered, whirled, or piled
With dust that loved, scorned, knew not that they were, For ever to be heaped, and hounded there, In amicable rest, or rivalry With never-animate dust of the dun sea … … Anarchic spirits of the desert blast Celebrate all the ruin of the past! Shadowy Murder's dismal dialogue, Conspiring, ere she leap to disembogue Annihilating vials on my head, Who dare to stand alive among the dead. Carousals, wails from hollowhearts resound, Long agony of maniac souls around, Low moaning, shrieking, fading in a swound, Thundering exultant through the rifted tomb, And bearing down my heart with swoop of doom; "Cease! cease from trouble! hope thou, or despair; "Wait but a little, thou too shalt be there!"
# A Little Child's Monument/Christmas Eve

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 116–118
Shimmer of laughter, Glimmer of play, Flown in a wafture, Blown in a spray, From blithe floor and rafter Over the way!
I know it is feast-day, a Mirth-day for all; Oh, to the least may a Birthday befall; And the high priest play There in the hall! Play with his treasures; He is a child, Swaying their pleasures, Being so mild; The Holy One measures Mirth for a child.
Weep we less wildly! Sleeping is well; The Lord hath laid on him A wonderful spell. Flower-band childly, Call away fear! Our hand mildly Tender you cheer!
How I muse of him Gambolling so, With all these who love him A brief while ago, Heaven's joy above him, Our joy below!
Ah! may you be merry While one is lost, In his dear bosom the Terrible frost? Smile we who bury All we love most?
Or is he hiding Here in the hall. And will he come gliding Swift when we call?
Yea! I have found him, Nor ever we part, Love hath unwound him Deep down in my heart!
# A Little Child's Monument/All Saints, and All Souls

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 63–65
Thy birthday is All Saints' Day, my sweet treasure. Ah! well it may be! For on us there descended in full measure All saints in one celestial pleasure, With thee, dear baby! For thou wert open, loyal, fearless, Ah me! forsaken! Radiant soul in raiment peerless, A private joy to thee how cheerless, Until partaken! It is All Saints' Day; on the morrow, With flowers offered, Sons and daughters of dark sorrow Some faint ray of peace-may borrow From flowers proffered On green mounds of the departed, Meekly saying To sweet souls of the true-hearted, "May we not for long be parted, Here delaying!"
There a friend, a sister, mother, Fondly kneeling, Sobs and tears are fain to smother, Unto the dear sundered other Self appealing, "Leave me not alone, O lover! Child I cherish!" "May the reign of love be over? Death is only sent to prove her! May she perish? " In warm-breathing blue ethereal White tapers kindled Shyly waver, souls aerial, In allbeholding strength imperial Of Day dwindled, Like our lives in the universal Sun of spirit; Hark how ocean makes rehearsal Of a life without reversal All inherit! An eternal child, blue Ocean, Rhythmic breathing O'er the dead, with grand emotion, And blue hills with deep devotion Hearts are wreathing. We are sure they are not sleeping Beneath our blossom,
By white marble we may, weeping, Plant for memory, but keeping Near our bosom Life's own vigil o'er us, even As in dreaming O'er what seems their sleep, bereaven, We hold our vigil; they in heaven Know no seeming!
# A Little Child's Monument/Children and the Woods

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 94–96
I love the beautiful green woodland, Where shy singing-fairies flit; In the twilight of their foodland I hear a tapping while I sit, And deem it is the woodpecker, Yet know not other elfin noises That waking near me softly stir, While a shadowy bough faint poises, Dreamily athwart the beryl Of sensitive sun-lighted leaves; And breathlessly, as in play-peril, The laughing rillet swiftly cleaves A way through trees and flowers who love him, Waving green arms while he flows, With touch light hindering above him, As they would kiss him while he goes, But he merrily from them flows, Blessing the green twilit heart, As erst to mine my little one would songful light impart!
Ah! now my fairy brook is dry; Where are the playful gleamings of his eye, Or songs of his sweet innocent revelry? But while I love the gentle woodland, And fragrant pines that stir and sing Hushfully in upland valleys, Blue lakes, and every living thing, I love the little human children Better than all woods and flowers, The music of their innocent gambols More than springs and summer showers. And my heart is never lonely If in roving I may meet A few little children only With their merrily flying feet, In the playfield fresh from school, Or among glades of woodland cool. They are fair meanings of the daylight, Clear fulfilment of meek flowers, All a shyly wandering faylight Would say among her leafy bowers. In their sweet, shy, sidelong glances, And every lisping word that wells, In their light aerial dances, As of wind-waved lily-bells … I think I hear his very tone, I feel his very living smile; Yea, one would say he lends his own
To these fair children for a while. Dear Father, these are very fair! Lovely in all their ways, Whose every breathing is a prayer, And all their motion praise. Then a gleam steals o'er the snow Of my low-responding breast, Even as a faint afterglow Dawns in the ever-faded west. And so God gives all babes to me, In place of Baby who is gone; Yet ah! the whole fair human family Weighs lighter than my little one!
# A Little Child's Monument/At his Grave

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages ix–xi
If death were an eternal sleep, I would lay me down by him, Never to wound more, nor to weep, Nor grope aweary, maimed, and dim, Inflict no injury, no pain, Nor ache with this dull doubt again! While the birken shadows pass O’er the marble and the grass, I lean upon thy cross and weep; Very sweet were sleep, With ne’er a tear, Nor hope nor fear! If thou behold me from thy bowers Smile on mine offering of flowers, And help me, dear! Thou hast entered into life, While we rave in mortal strife: Love, receive the offering Of unworthy words I bring!
Lo! I lay them on thy tomb; May they a little lighten gloom, Soothe an aching void, and bless In love's distress!
Thou should have laid me my in quiet grave, Sorrowing calm; And I with folded palm. But now above thine own behold I rave! With all thy life before thee so to die, Unseasonably! "Whom the gods love die young;" To that sweet saying, then, I clung.
Ghastly Doubt, and chilling Fear, The wan Ages' Quest is here, Trembling Hope, and faltering Faith, Intent on what God whispereth. It was thy leaving me that shook Content in this deluding nook Of rainbow life, that seems upbuoyed A moment in a rayless void; So I sought for firmer ground; And I tell to others what I found.
I would embalm thee in my verse: To loving souls it shall rehearse Thy loveliness when I am cold,
And fragrant with it, may enfold For other hearts in misery Faint solace; words were sweet to me From hearts, who mourned what seemed to be Dear, like thee: These are thy swathings of rare spice, A golden shrine with gems of price, A monument of my device.
# A Little Child's Monument/Dark Spring

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., pages 3–4
Now the mavis and the merle Lavish their full hearts in song; Peach and almond boughs unfurl White and purple bloom along A blue burning air, All is very fair: But ah! the silence and the sorrow! I may not borrow Any anodyne for grief From the joy of flower or leaf, No healing to allay my pain From the cool of air or rain; Every sweet sound grew still, Every fair colour pale, When his life began to wane! They may never live again! A child's voice and visage will Evermore about me fail; And my weary feet will go Labouring as in deep snow: Though the year with glowing wine
Fill the living veins of vine, While a faint moon hangs between Broidery of a leafy screen; Though the glossy fig may swell, And Night hear her Philomel, While sweet lemon blossom breathes, And fair Sun his falchion wreathes With rich depending golden fruit, Or crimson roses at his foot, All is desolate and mute! Dark to-day, and dark to-morrow! Ah! the silence and the sorrow!
# A History of Evolution

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No. 321 in the Little Blue Books
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A History of Evolution
Carroll Lane Fenton
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TEN CENT POCKET SERIES NO. 321 Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius
A History of Evolution
Carroll Lane Fenton
HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY GIRARD, KANSAS
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Copyright, 1922 Haldeman-Julius Company
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There is but thing greater than to search after the natural laws which govern our universe—that is to discover them.
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* Foreword
* Chapter I: Evolution Among the Greeks
* Chapter II: From the Christian Fathers to Kant
* Chapter III: Evolution and the Speculators
* Chapter IV: Evolution and the Great Naturalists
* Chapter V: Darwin and the Triumph of Evolution
* Chapter VI: The Post-Darwinians: DeVries and the Mutation Theory
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sherlock, William

Sherlock, William (1641?-1707). -- Divine and controversialist, b. at Southwark, ed. at Eton and Camb., took orders, and became in 1684 Master of the Temple, and in 1691 Dean of St. Paul's. He exercised a powerful influence in the Church. His most popular work was his Discourse concerning Death, and his principal controversial effort was his Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity. Other works were on Future Judgment and on The Divine Providence. His son, 'Thomas Sherlock' (1678-1761), who was also Master of the Temple, became Bishop successively of Bangor, Salisbury, and London, and was, like his f., a noted controversialist. His best known work is his Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus (1729).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sibbes, Richard

Sibbes, Richard (1577-1635). -- Divine, was at Camb., where he held various academic posts, of which he was deprived by the High Commission on account of his Puritanism. He was the author of several devotional works expressing intense religious feeling -- The Saint's Cordial (1629), The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax, etc. He was a man of great learning.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Shenstone, William

Shenstone, William (1714-1763). — Poet, s. of Thomas S., owner of a small estate at Hales Owen, Shropshire. At this place, called the Leasowes, the poet was b. In 1732 he went to Oxf. On his father's death he retired to the Leasowes where he passed his time, and ran through his means in transforming it into a marvel of landscape gardening, visited by strangers from all parts of the kingdom. The works of S. consist of poems and prose essays. Of the former two, The Schoolmistress, a humorous imitation of Spenser, with many quaint and tender touches, and the Pastoral Ballad in four parts, perhaps the best of its kind in the language, survive. The essays also display good sense and a pointed and graceful style. The last years of S. were clouded by financial embarrassments and perhaps also by disappointed affections. After his death his works, were coll. and pub. by Dodsleypage 342.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816). -- Dramatist and orator, b. in Dublin, the s. of an actor, was ed. at Harrow. In 1772 he eloped with Miss Linley, a famous singer, went with her to France, fought two duels, and m. her in 1773. S. has a reputation of the highest in two distinct walks, those of the dramatist and the Parliamentary orator. By his three great comedies, The Rivals (1775), The School for Scandal (1777), and The Critic (1779), he raised himself to the first place among the writers of the comedy of manners; and by his speeches, specially those in support of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, he has a position among the greatest of Parliamentary orators. Unfortunately he had little turn for business, and too great a love of pleasure and conviviality, which led to lifelong pecuniary embarrassment, completed by the destruction by fire of Drury Lane Theatre, of which he had become proprietor. As a politician S. supported the Whig party, and held the offices of Under-Sec. for Foreign Affairs, Sec. to the Treasury, and Treasurer of the Navy. He was also confidential adviser to George IV. when Prince of Wales, but like everybody else who had to do with him suffered from the ingratitude of "the first gentleman in Europe." The accounts long prevalent of the poverty and misery of his last years have been shown to be greatly exaggerated, though he was in reduced circumstances. As a dramatist S. shines in the construction of amusing situations, and in a sparkling flow of witty dialogue which never flags. His only other play was Pizarro (1799), a patriotic melodrama.
Lives by Walkins (1817), T. Moore (1825), and Mrs. Oliphant (1883).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha

Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Martha (BUTT) (1775-1851). -- Writer of children's books, m. in 1803 Captain H. Sherwood, and went to India, where she took much interest in soldiers' children. Among her books, many of which attained great popularity, are Susan Gray, Little Henry and his Bearer, and The Fairchild Family.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sidney, or Sydney, Algernon

Sidney, or Sydney, Algernon (1622-1683). -- Political writer, s. of the 2nd Earl of Leicester, and grand-nephew of Sir Philip S., in his youth travelled on the Continent, served against the Irish Rebels, and on the outbreak of the Civil War, on the side of the Parliament. He was one of the judges on the trial of Charles I., and though he did not attend, he thoroughly approved of the sentence. He opposed the assumption of the supreme power by Cromwell. After the Restoration he lived on the Continent, but receiving a pardon, returned in 1677 to England. He, however, retained the republican principles which he had all his life advocated, fell under the suspicion of the Court, and was in 1683, on the discovery of the Rye House Plot, condemned to death on entirely insufficient evidence, and beheaded on Tower Hill, December 7, 1683. Though no charge of personal venality has been substantiated, yet it appears to be certain that he received money from the French King for using his influence against war between the two countries, his object being to prevent Charles II. from obtaining command of the war supplies. S. was deeply versed in political theory, and wrote Discourses concerning Government, pub. in 1698page 344.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Shorthouse, Joseph Henry

Shorthouse, Joseph Henry (1834-1903). -- Novelist, b. at Birmingham, where he was a chemical manufacturer. Originally a Quaker, he joined the Church of England. His first, and by far his best book, John Inglesant, appeared in 1881, and at once made him famous. Though deficient in its structure as a story, and not appealing to the populace, it fascinates by the charm of its style and the "dim religious light" by which it is suffused, as well as by the striking scenes occasionally depicted. His other novels, The Little Schoolmaster Mark, Sir Percival, The Countess Eve, and A Teacher of the Violin, though with some of the same characteristics, had no success comparable to his first. S. also wrote an essay, The Platonism of Wordsworth.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Sidney, Sir Philip

Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586). -- Poet and romancist, s. of Sir Henry S., Deputy of Ireland, and Pres. of Wales, b. at the family seat of Penshurst, and ed. at Shrewsbury School and Oxf. He was at the French Court on the fateful August 24, 1572 -- the massacre of St. Bartholomew -- but left Paris soon thereafter and went to Germany and Italy. In 1576 he was with his f. in Ireland, and the next year went on missions to the Elector Palatine and the Emperor Rudolf II. When his father's Irish policy was called in question, he wrote an able defence of it. He became the friend of Spenser, who dedicated to him his Shepherd's Calendar. In 1580 he lost the favour of the Queen by remonstrating against her proposed marriage with the Duke of Anjou. His own marriage with a dau. of Sir Francis Walsingham took place in 1583. In 1585 he was engaged in the war in the Low Countries, and met his death at Zutphen from a wound in the thigh. His death was commemorated by Spenser in his Astrophel. S. has always been considered as the type of English chivalry; and his extraordinary contemporary reputation rested on his personal qualities of nobility and generosity. His writings consist of his famous pastoral romance of Arcadia, his sonnets Astrophel and Stella, and his Apologie for Poetrie, afterwards called Defence of Poesie. The Arcadia was originally written for the amusement of his sister, afterwards Countess of Pembroke, the "Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother," of Ben Jonson. Though its interest now is chiefly historical, it enjoyed an extraordinary popularity for a century after its appearance, and had a marked influence on the immediately succeeding literature. It was written in 1580-81 but not pub. until 1590, and is a medley of poetical prose, full of conceits, with occasional verse interspersed. His Defence of Poesie, written in reply to Gosson (q.v.), is in simple and vigorous English. S. also made a translation of the Psalms.
Poems ed. by Grosart, Apologie by Arber and others, Astrophel by Gray, Arber, and others. Life by Fulke Greville (1652), ed. by Sir E. Brydges (1816). Arcadia (facsimile), by Somner. Lives by J.A. Symonds, Fox Bourne, and others.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Shirley, James

Shirley, James (1596-1666). -- Dramatist, b. in London, ed. at Merchant Taylor's School, London, and at Oxf. and Camb., became a master of St. Alban's Grammar School, and afterwards joined the Roman Catholic Church, and going to London wrote for the stage, producing 39 plays. His talents and his religion recommended him to Queen Henrietta Maria, and he appears to have led a fairly prosperous life until the interdict of plays by Parliament page 343in 1642. In the Civil War he bore arms on the Royalist side, and during the Commonwealth he returned to his occupation of schoolmaster. The Restoration does not appear to have improved his fortunes much; he was burnt out in the great fire of 1666, and very soon afterwards he and his wife d. on the same day. The plays of S. include The Traitor (1631), The Cardinal (1641), The Gamester (1633), Hyde Park (1632), and The Lady of Pleasure (1635). He also wrote poems, including the well-known lines beginning "The Glories of our mortal State." S. has fancy, liveliness, and the style of a gentleman, but he lacks depth and interest. He is less gross than most of his contemporaries.
Other plays are The Ball (1632), The Maid's Revenge (1626), The Grateful Servant (1629), Bird in a Cage (1633), The Example (1634). The Constant Maid (c. 1640), Doubtful Heir, or Rosania (1640), Court Secret (1653), Contention of Ajax and Ulysses (1659), etc.
# A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/ו

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