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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10561, 7 January 1896, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

o First Stepping Stones in the Grammar of Music. By A. E. Wilson.—Kiss Wilson explains in the preface that the object of this little book (the price of which in 6d) is to help children ever the ground work of music—the theoretics.! part that is go. often considered uninteresting. With this object the author hos endeavouied, by means of illustrations'from every d»y. life and rbymedesp'auctions of tbe notes *nd r.st!>, to bring the work'within the grasp bf very yd!H># children. The first five chapters of .thin book are devoted to the explanation of written music,aDd the remaining chapters, en tho different pcsles and intervals, will serve at an introduction to the study of harmony. There if* appended an exerciee on playiDgtwo u-*;-s against three. We may add to the high commendation of F. B. Gladitone, Slub. Doc, our appreciation of the simplicity and excellence of this little work. We have leceived from Mr Jame3 Horsburgb, the local agent, a copy of the lectures delivered by the Key. Father MaddeD, at St. Patrick* Cathedral, Auckland, on ehntch union. Tbe rev. author has given to Ws little work the title "Disunion and Reunion," and ho explains thut the chief aim bus been to state plainly, and in a popular way, the causes that Jtd to the disruption of Cbri»t«ndon), leaving the reader to judge how very saueh of tho hnman and hoiv (itlle of the diviDe there was in the recesaiona from the primal fold." How tar Protestants will be prepared to accept the rev. gentleman's statements of the causes as being tho chief and real ones it is not for us to say. The publication of such a course of lectures from a Roman Catholic standpoint is so rare that the views are oure to be perused with h'.t»re?t.