The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-14

CAOAi VI < Cl1Oh l1idoAS cAo bAAC oCNCtOR- ment of distinct French school. Saint-Seans looms large as an arti- ficer in this remarkable musical renaissance" He it is who has proved himself master in every style of music and, according to the Monitor, he it was who was able to Gallicize the musical forms built up by the famous German composers of the past.
 Others of the constructive French musicians cited by the Monitor who have played dominant parts in cre- ating school are Faure, Chabrier, Lalo, Chausson, Caesar Franck and Claude Debussy. As the Monitor says the genius of Franck is now universally recognized, and no con- poser is more in vogue among edu- |cated musicians than Debussy. But strange to say, the Monitor leaves out of its list one of the greatest and, with the pdsGble exception of Saint Saens, the most widely known of French composers-Gounod. Had he contributed to art only the opera of Faust" he would have been entitled ito place with the immortals. But his two oratorios, "The Redemption" and "Mors Et Vita," to say nothing |of his masses, have had an unmis- takable influence on religious feeling musically expressed.
 The time will never come when a musical education will be complete without some knowledge of Bach and Beethoven, but with the high position attained by the French school the music of that school will be more than ever studied and more than ever performed.
 The rapidly advancing French are said to have captured the mail of an entire German regiment, which had been made up for transmission to the fatherland. ft ;, letters were taken, as they were prob ably as full of hard luck stories as the censors would permit them to be. # # :.
 The German government admits that | the man who sank the Lusitania was l killed on board the U-sS in European | waters However, the place reserved for Lieutenant Commander Schweiger is not
 as hot as that waiting for the man
 whose order he obeyed.
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 | The advancing allies captured Germans
 still at work in the grain fields of
 Francesp Those surprised Teutons were | soon convinced that what they thought
 impossible had happened. The Kaiser's invincible armies were. beating a retreat. # * F
 l German soldiers needn't be afraid of being scalped by American Indians in
 Pershing's army However. if an Indian happened to see Boche committing a typical atrocity he might be tempted to
 try the methods of his ancestors. | .s + as
 | A tax on soft drinks would add con-
 siderably to the expenses of the young
 man under IS, upon whose shoulders has
 fallen the duty of buying refreshments
 for the fair sex while older men are Add horrors of war. One of the Kali
 ser's U-boats is believed to have re. leased oil charged with noxious gas | coastguard station off the North Caro- | lima coast.
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 Iris bold man who attempts to read the war bulletins out loud for the ben. eft of his fellow citizens. The names of some of those French villages would
 stump man who knows his Paris like
 a book.
 | Somebody should write song entitled
 Back to Berlin,' and dedicate it te
 Won Ludendorff and Won Hindenburg. { < as as
 Not being heir to the throne. Crowr
 Prince Rupprecht doesn't always escaps
 censure for his mistakes. 1 # T *
 | The Germanization of Russia Is pro
 ceeding so successfully-from the allies
 point of view-that it may soon be quite
 unsafe for German to venture out 1T
 a Russian city after dark. H a. F l Extending the draft age from IS to 4 will take care of a great many portly
 gentlemen who have not permitted tn,
 war to interfere with their nightly pat
 ronage of cabarets.
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 1 While New Workers have speculated or