WHITMAN’S SPECIMEN DAYS } WHITMAN’S DEMOCRATIC VISTAS } ” London: WALTER SCOTT, LIMITED, 24 Warwick Lane. NEW EDITION IN NEW BINDING. In the new edition there are added about forty reproductions In fac-simile of autographs of distinguished singers and instrumentalists, including Sarasate, Joachim, Sir Charles Hallé, Paderewsky, Stavenhagen, Henschel, Trebelli, Miss Macintyre, Jean Gérardy, etc. * * * * * _Quarto, cloth elegant, gilt edges, emblematic design on cover, 6s. May also be had in a variety of Fancy Bindings._ THE MUSIC OF THE POETS: A MUSICIANS’ BIRTHDAY BOOK. EDITED BY ELEONORE D’ESTERRE KEELING. THIS is a unique Birthday Book. Against each date are given the names of musicians whose birthday it is, together with a verse-quotation appropriate to the character of their different compositions or performances. A special feature of the book consists in the reproduction in fac-simile of autographs, and autographic music, of living composers. Three sonnets by Mr. Theodore Watts, on the “Fausts” of Berlioz, Schumann, and Gounod, have been written specially for this volume. It is illustrated with designs of various musical instruments, etc.; autographs of Rubenstein, Dvorâk, Greig, Mackenzie, Villiers Stanford, etc., etc. London: WALTER SCOTT, LTD., 24 Warwick Lane. FOOTNOTES: [1] Scaramuccio and Pierrot represent species of buffoons of the early theatre.--ED. [2] This was a thrust at Göttingen, which town Heine here couples with six others, notorious as the local scenes in comic literature. [3] The name of a gigantic cask of wine of 1624, one of the special sights of the Bremen Rathskeller. It is tapped only on great occasions, and in 1870 the town of Bremen sent a number of bottles of this wine to the Emperor William and Prince Bismarck at Versailles, as a valuable gift of honour.--ED. [4] The Devil is the speaker. [5] Even at the present day persons conspicuously marked in a student’s fray are not allowed to enter the theological profession, unless there is a fair prospect that the scar may be hidden under a prospective beard. [6] The Duke was a pronounced woman-hater, and objected most vehemently to the contraction of marriages by persons in any way connected with his little court. The Konrektor intended to profit by this interview as a means of influencing the Duke in favour of a young runner who had been imprisoned for the crime of making love. [7] Reuter and his companions were at this time political prisoners at the fort of Dömitz, in Mecklenburg, his sentence of death having been converted into one of thirty years’ imprisonment. [8] In a previous number of the _Salon_ Lindau had published a keenly satirical article on Professor Minckwitz’s writings, culminating in a parody on his style, entitled, “The Death of a Youthful Hero,” and purporting to be an extract from the professor’s epic poem.