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Otago Witness, Issue 2397, 8 February 1900, Page 10

FOR HALF A CROWN. SHOULD BE IN ALL HOMES WHERE THERE IS A PIANO OR ORGAN. THE above headiDg will, of course, appear to most people as the height of absurdity, yet the absurdity is more apparent than real. It goes without saying that a finished /nuaical education in the xegnlar course cannot be had for a crown, or even with several hundred additional crowns, but can it be truthfully said that the pers on with a sufficient knowledge of music to play accompaniments readily on the piano or organ to all the popular and standard songs of the day has no musical education ? Assuredly not. A musical education sufficient to enable one to play correctly accompauiments to the songs sung in the home frequently gets and gives more pleasure from the modest accomplishment than does the acquirements of many on whose education large sums have been expended. i To the more modest musical education the above heading applies. Such an education the Otago Witness is now enabled to offer its music-loving readers for half a crown, the publishers having recently decided to reduce the price to that sum. i This ready-made musical education consists of Pratt's Chart of Chords for the Piano and Organ, which is the nearest approach to a ready-made knowledge of music yet attained by science. It is a short cut to harmojay, and is to music what the multiplication table is to arithmetic — a quick method cf learning to play the Piano or Organ without a teacher. With this chart anyone can with bub a small emount of practice become an expert accompanist. It is complete self-instructor, enabling anyone to play without difficulty accompaniments to any soDg ever written. It is valuable to the advanced musician as well as the beginner, embracing nearly 6very major and minor chord used in music, and is endorsed by teachers and musicians everywhere. This chart is the practical result of years of study by Charles 15. Pratt, the noted American composer and musician, whose compositions have world-wide popularity and a larger sale than those of any other American or European composer. Believing that the educational and pleasuregiving vaiue of this Chart is very great, the Otago Witness has arranged with the publishers to supply Pratt's Chart of Chords to its readers at Half a Cbown each, and in addition to the Chart; of Chords the publishers have kindly agreed to send without extra charge a copy of the Book of Songs, contaiuiug 184songs, with words and music. Many of these songs are old-time favourites long out of print thac can be ebtaiued in no other way. Every home tbat has a piano or organ, especially where there are children, should have Pi'&tt's Chart of Chords. Address, with postal notes to value of 2s 6d, with 14d tor postage, Publishers Otago Witness, Dunedin.

The death has occurred (says the Falkirk Herald) at Laixrieston, of Mr Thomas 11. Nichol, for many years station agent at Cupar. The late Mr Nichol, v:ho was one of the most popular servants of tho North British Railway Company, in I'ifeshire, wai some time before his retirement tho recipient of a public testimonial, Sir John Gilmour, Bart., presiding over a large gathering of traders and agriculturists. Mr Nichol had been in failing- health tor the pa^i Juw year=;. and feuccmnbed Lo an attack of hem I dif-et'te. The deceased was the brother ojt ihe l\uv. W. Niohol, of liamjodouu