CORNELIUS, author, poet, and composer, and one of the leaders of the self-styled ' New German' School of music which gathered round Liszt at Weimar in the middle of last century, had been dead a good many years before his work began to receive anything like the recognition which is its duo. Even now, neither his poetry nor his music takes the position to which their many fine qualities entitle them. A relative of the great painter whose namesake he was, he was destined first for the stage, and his studies for that career must have been of real help to him afterwards, in his composition for the theatre. But besides his operas and bigger works,he left many beautiful songs and choral pieces, which are held in much warmer affection now than they over were in his own lifetime. He was barely fifty when he died in his native town of Mainz in 1874. BETTER known to us in this country by his work as music critic and editor of musical papers, Joseph Deems Taylor has a distinguished place in his own country among the native composers. A graduate of Now York University, ho is besides a great linguist and has made many valuable translations of songs from French,
German, Italian, and Russian. Here, as native born Americans often do, he has turned to a subject from the Old Country; as listoners have already hoard, there are pieces with the same name by our own native composers.