MUSIC is an art that can be made extraordinarily unattractive if it is wrongly talked about. Mr. Percy Scholes has long been, like Mark Tapley , inveterately cheerful in the face of all the masterpieces that tend to overwhelm the serious-minded man ; and a critic who is cheerful though sound is a boon to the musical population. He has been interested in many branches of music criticism and propaganda—founded music journals, acted as critic to various important papers, and been prominent in the recent advances in player-piano and gramophone reproduction.