The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
MRS. ANDERSON'S INTERESTING
 PAPER AT MUSIC STUDY CLUB

not only as painter of masterpieces but as a notable figure in the mag. nificent drama of his time-the age of Fictoria-whose brother actors were Tennys0n, Ruskin, Dickens, Rossetti, Browning, Gladstone, William Morris, Kipling, Irving and Sir Arthur Sul- livan. all of whom were his familiar associates and devoted friends.
 His pictures have in them just that element of unreality and mystic charm which belongs to the highest poetry. They are not taken from real life, they could not have been, for there is noth- ing there like them. They have the romantic charm of the "Idyls' of TennysOn.
 Certainly the land of his dreams is the land of poetry. and it is as i'm habitants of such an ideal world that we must study his figures. They are medieval in type vet classic in their extreme placidity and repose. They are frail. fair, strange flowers. sensitive plants" some one has called them back in the shadow of medieval clOisters.
 Each picture of Burns-Jones is a poem, almost song, a poem set to music. for there are qualities in his work that are distinctly analogous to the sister acts. in subject. in sentiment and in method of expression. There is always story embodied in the most exquisite and varied imagery, that is poetry there is a mood of revery. and often the actual presence of music. This picture. King Caphetan and the Beggar Maid." furnishes an exempli- fication of this characteristic.
 Sir Arthur Sullivan was the young est of three artists. He was born in 1912 when Tennyson was B and Burne Jones nine years of age. He died in 1900 at the age of 5S, also the young est of the three to die. Tennyson lived to be S3, Burne Jones 62. and Sulli- van 5S
 It is the worlds. misfortune that it should have permitted his beautiful artarios. songs and works for Orches- tra to he so entirely Obscured by his th-proviking music. We enjoy laughter so well and he has given us such rare cause for merriment, that we are not disposed to accredit him with graver and loftier moods. IL is true in all literature, all music and all painting that when nation is new, everything is tragic because of | the people-but when any nation reaches high degree of civilization we. begin to see the comedy and hu- main appeal.
 Returning to England with the high est honors that Leipsig could confer at the age of Is. he conducted the per. formance of his music to Shakespeare Tempest" at the Crystal palace, and at once was proclaimed the greatest oi English composers. His reputation was achieved Ort0rio. cantata, songs and orchestral compositions. among them "1he Prodigal Son. The Light of the World The Lost Chord ana St. Agnes Eve Not as so many oi us have supposed in comic opera.
 But when at last he did give to ths world those matchless musical come dies by which we know him best, ht brought to his task musicianship as profound and experience as various as that of any composer living. Thougi so full of mirth as to make Us forge all eXacti0nS of theory, they are mod els of form and miracles of muSica cleveIncss.
 In his stainless and beautiful char acter he is worthy of the same rever ent regard that we give to TennysvI and BurneJones
 So if we wish. to remember him by