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Gr6 sung clear around the WOrfu. Al eit
wonderful charm is felt the moment
they are heard. Other eirs in this divi-
sion are equally captivating. and include
Robin Adair, Dublin Bay. Blue Bells OF
S Scotland. Aud Robin Gray, Killarney,
etc.
Part i've is the eongs of home and
country. and makes in itself delight
fut volume OF home music. The selec-
tions are happy expression OF the
underlying love for She native land and
the old iireside which dwells in every
heart. Chief among these charming
lyrics ia John Howard Payne's Home,
Sweet Home. No less popular ere The
Old Oaken Bucket, The Dearest Spot,
Home Again. and My Old Kentucky
Home.
Part six contains national songs. This
department is devoted to the inspiring
strains OF martial music. the hymns
that have electrified nations and led
armies to victory. The Star Spangied
Banner, composed in the heat Of battle,
amidst the crashings Of balls and bombs,
and carrying along the heart OF the
bearer With its ringing air; The Mar
seillaise Hymn, to whose triumphant
notes the Freneb eagles we're carried
over Europe; Ged Save the Queen, The
Harp That Onfe Through Tara's Halls,
and the national eongs OF other coun-
tries, are specimens OF the captivating
gems OF this division.
In part seven we find songs Of retro
spcct and exile. Plaintive, tender airs
like The Exile OF Erin, Where Are the
Friends OF My Youth? l Cannot Sing
the Old Songs, ETC., unite their touch
ing strains and move and melt the
heart. These songs are dear to oil who
have ever sung or heard them. includ-
ing The Danube River, Do They Think
OF Me at Home? Ben Bolt, Lilly Dale
and The Irish Emigrant's Lament.
Part eight 10 a treasury OF those de-
liphtful old love songs which express
the mightiest passion of the human
breast. They are beautiful, full OF
meaning and far.famed. No collection
Of this songs OF love has ever
equaled this. The rarest gems of
poetcal romance from Burns,
Moore, Byron. Henry Carey, Sam
uel Lover. Ban Johnson. Hugh Con.
way, Maria Craik. Cawhine Morton
and many others OF like renown are here
set to enhancing music by such masters
as Mozart. Bale. Sullivan, Claribel,
Bishop. Winner. and others too numer-
Gus to mention here. Among the en-
trancing lyrics of this department. are
Highland Mary, Robin Adair, Maid OF
Athens, loves Young Dream, A War
rior Bold. Sweet Love OF Mine and
Douglas Tender and True.
Part nine is composed of Songs OF
Sentiment, containing large number
of pleasing and popular airs. The seleo-
tions are adapted to every mood OF the
mind, every need of the heart, compris-
ing words and tones OF joy, comfort,
consolation. gayety and mirth. Here
are Grandmother'a Chair, Mary OF the
Wait for the Wagon. ETC., etc.
| Part 10 are songs OF the church. grand
| old sacred melodies full of beauty and
majesty, which give voice to the spirit
of worship and the Hottest human
emotions. They include Jerusalem,
the Golden. The Litany Hymn. From
Greenlsnd's Icy Mountains, Love to
Tell the Story, etc. These are only
few OF the immortal lyrics in this de-
partment.
Part IL contains o captivating colleo'
ton Of instrumental music. and ends q
volume which contains collection of
all the principal celebrated productions
of the worlds greatest composers, max
it very cheap but valuable work.
LORD ORMoNT AND HIS AMINTA. By
GEORGE MEREDITH. Cloth edition, $3.50.
Published BY Charles scribners Sons, New
York city. For sale by the Stoll-Thayer
Co., 1879 South Spring street.
Mr.. Meredith's long expected novel
has made its appearance. with title
which is characteristic OF the author.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta is its
far-away, eighteenth csntury-sounding
name, and there ie an odor of bygone
days, flavor of chivalry Bavoring of
the impossible which takes Us back OF
this prosaic age.
Lord Ormont shares in Importance
with Matthew Weyburn, who begins life
with US in the first chapter as school
boy with schoolboy's love for Aminta
and schoolboy's admiration for the
dashing old cavalry officer, Ormont,
whom he knows only by following his
ca.eer in the newspapers. It is when
Weyburn becomes his secretary that we
meet him--a retired soldier with q
grievance against his country,
and o countess to whom he gives
the name OF wife, but persistently re-
fuses tc give society any satisfaction as
to the legality OF his marriage. Much
Of the action of the story hinges on this
mooted question and at the end we
fancy q myriad of readers will be far
from united in opinion.
The leading characters are drawn with
Mr.. Meredith's genius, and the minor
puppets left to shift for themselves.
Eminently Meredithian in the picture OF
Lady Charlotte as 6inewy bite OF the
gentler sex, but who had much flavor
and gave nou-ishment. Her exceedingly
vigorous, plain spoken English is one
OF the charms of the book, and her grim
determination stands out plainly against
the rather fiaccid Characterization OF all
about her but her brother. Her battle
with Ormont for the possession of the
family jewels Ia one OF tho most strongly
drawn situations.
Weyburn lie described as young man
stoutly and oognizantly on the climb,
but his performances are not always
equal to his desires. and although the
authors intention OF making him an
Admirable CREIGHTON is evident, he does
not always stand out beyond the line,
ahd we are puzzled to understand the
preciae grounds Of the thorough conf
dence which his employer has in him
under very peculiar circumstances.
Ormont's conduct as regards Arminta Ia
a mystery which Is not explained-iu-
deed we are occasionally left to analyze
motives and seek the keys Of situations
for ourselves while the author discur-