" ... The book is as much saturated with the art musical as was that delightful book 'Trilby' with the art pictorial Even the chapter headings are excerpts from some well-remembered and well-beloved master. It is a symphony in words with love for its theme, beautifully ornamented with the harmony of emotion and has a finale radiant with peace, goodness, and wedded love."--ARMY AND NAVY REGISTER. LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO., 91-93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For those words, the variant more frequently used was retained. Obvious punctuation errors were fixed. Other printing errors, which were not detected during the revision of the printing process of the original book, have been corrected. End of Project Gutenberg's Modern Musical Drift, by William James Henderson