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MUSICAb.
The members of the First Presbyterian
church take a pardonable pride in their
music And being aware that good talent
cannot bo procured without good payment
therefor, accordingly pay reasonable sal
aries to the present quartet, which was or
ganized about a year ago. Dr. E. II. Eddy,
tenor, has sung in the different church
choirs of the city for the past few years.
lie has that rairest of all voices, a tenor of
good range, and is popular as a church
singer. Miss Minnie Gaylord is a charming
singer, and is very' popular in church and
musical circles. She studied for several
years in Toronto, Canada. She has a very
flexible voice of good compass and quality.
The concert stage is Miss Gaylord's aim,
and she bids fair to be successful in that
Held. Miss Nanon Lillibridge, the con
tralto, has an exceptionally musical voice,
which she uses intelligently. Miss Lilli
bridge has long been a favorite with Lin
coin people, and each year but adds to her
popularity. She has studied assiduously for
several years, and made good use of her
opportunities. We are sorry to learn that
she will soon remove with her parents to
Chicago. Mr. Kittering, the basso, is a
young singer with an excellent natural voice
of good timbre, which with proper study
and cultivation would enable him to accom
plish much more with it than he otherwise
can do. The organ was presented to the
church about six years ago by Messrs. John
R. Clark and J. D. McFarland. It was
built by Pitcher Bros., of Louisville. Ky., at
a cost of about 82,500. The case is of Cali
fornia red wood, the same material as the
interior work of the church. It has two
manuels and is pumped by water motor.
The present organist, Miss Mary Cunning
ham, received her knowledge of the pipe
organ at the conservatory of music She
has decided talent, and her execution is ex
cellent. Her playing gives entire satisfac
tion to the congregation, which is one of
the most cultivated in the city. The Pres
byterian church may well feel proud ofits
music
Mrs. P. W. Plank will give a recital in X.
P. Curtice & Co.'s hall next Friday evening.
Professor J. L. Frank will continue choir
master at the St. Paul M. E. church,
The St Cecilia Society of Lincoln Nor
mal conservatory of music, gave a most en
joyable recital in the college chapel Tues
day evening April 3rd. With so painstak
ing and conscientious an instructor as Pro
fessor Oldham, one could not reasonably ex
pect anything but good work from a class,
and his pupils invariably do him credit
The opening number, familiar to all musi
cians, "Invitation a la Valse" was delight
fully rendered by the ladies' quartette.
Concerto G. minor Mendelssohn, on organ
and piano, as well as Miss Given's organ
solo, were received with much applause.
Miss Wright's voice has rounded out and
taken on a more sympathetic tone since
last season, and showed to good advantage
in "Lieta Signor." She received a rousing
encore but declined to respond. The vocal
trio "O Memory" by Mrs. Liddle, Miss
Wright and Professor Oldham and over
ture from Martha were most pleasingly
given, and the entire program elicited much
praise from the large and appreciative aud
ience assembled.
THE COURIER
LITERARY NOTES.
The Hon. Thomas II. Carter, chairman of
the Republican National committee, con
tributes an article on "The Republican
Outlook," to the April number of the North
American Review in which he analyzes the
political situation and sets forth the rea
sons which in his opinion seem to point to
a republican victory next November.
The Easter (April) Home and Country,
published by Jos. W. Kay, New York is a
tribute to the printer and the artist, as also
to the contributors. Well illustrated, this
magazine, already popular, improves with
each month. With a table of contents en
tirely seasonable and varied enough to
please every taste, enjoyable in some spe
cial way to every member of every family,
the Easter number should have a place in
all the homes of our country.
It appears from researches made by the
French Napoleonic scholar, Frederic Mas
son, who vouches for the fact over his own
signature, that Napoleon, when a young
lieutenant, wrote a Corsican story. The
manuscript of this he confided to his uncle,
Cardinal Fesch, then Archbishop of Lyons.
When Cardinal FesA died in 1839. his pa
pers were intrusted to his grand Vicar,
Abbe Lyonnet Napoleon's manuscript
was sold by the abbe to Libri, a member of
the academy and inspector of French li
braries. Libri sold this and some other
manuscripts to Lord Ashburnham for 840,
000, and from 1842 to a recent date Napol
eon's manuscripts slumbered in Ashburn
ham castle. The Cosmopolitan has secured
this 6tory and it appears in the April num
ber. The complete novel in the April number
of Lippincott's is""The Flying Halcyon.'" by
Colonel Richard Henry Savage, author of
"My Official Wife." It deals with treasure
hunting and the rescue of a political pris
oner in Sonora, and has three dashing na
val heroes, with heroines to match. P. F.
de Gournay supplies an interesting account
of "The F. M. C.'s of Louisiana," a class
which lost its distinctive existence by the
war. Under the heading "The Librarian
Among Hie Books," Julian Hawthorne des
cribes the Library of Congress and its dis
tinguished custodian. Chief-Justice Abra
ham Fernander tells about "Hawaiian Tra
ditions." H. C. Walsh explains an interest
ing experiment in "Co-operative House
keeping," now being made at Brookline,
Mass., and George J. Varney writes learned
ly of "Storage-Battery Cars." In "Hero
ines of the Human Comedy," Junius Henri
Browne contributes a study of Balzac and
his feminine characters. The poetry of the
number, besides a thoughtful and beauti
ful Easter hymn by M. S. Paden, comes
from Celiu A. Hay ward and Charles Calvin
Ziegler.
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