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5 jMudWSke- JyS arnw-irifimij-n1" EVENING HOURS. A COLLECTION Of New and Choice Duets for the Cornet and Piano. BY TP. SOUSA. Winners American Instructors.

PRICE, 75 CENTS EACH. WINNERS AMERICAN VIOLINIST. No doubt of this being the best and cheapest Instruction Book for the Violin. Contains double the amount of instruction and choice selections to be found in any other work. Not published in the usual style of 75-cent instructors, but printed from regular size, sheet-music plates.

Clear and concise explanations of the Position, Strings, Fingerboard, Gamut, Bowing, Characteristics of the Instrument, etc. A full collection of the most popular operatic airs, well-known melodies and dances, arranged as solos and duets. Evening Hours contains elegant arrangements of the most popular music suitable for the Cornet and Piano. Mr. Sousa has proved himself an able writer in works of this character.

Evening Hours is a book that leads all others of its class. Printed on the best quality of music paper, from clear and new type, with a cover in two colors, this book presents an appearance unequaled by any other of the kind. PRICE, 75 CENTS. Duets for Violin or Flute) and Piano. SOCIETY DANCES And Choice Selections.

Duets for the Violin (or Flute) and Piano. VOLUMES I TO 6. PRICE, EACH VOLUME, 75 CENTS. Society Dances are double the size of the ordinary books of this character retailing at the same price. Each Volume contains Sixty-Four pages of late aud popular Music, carefully arranged, printed on an excellent quality of paper, and substantially bound in Paper.

SOCIAL HOURS. FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO. A New Opera. The Paris correspondent of the London 'Standard sends a more extended description of the new work produced at the Paris Opera than that before printed in this country. Tabarin is the first novelty offered by Hitt Gailhard, successors of the late M.

Vaucorbeil in the management, and is essentially a local opera. It is based upon the play of the same name by Taul Ferrier, in which Conquelin made a bit some years ago at the Francais. Its author is Emile Pessard, a brother of Hector Pcssard, editor of the National. Tabarin is the buffoon, who, as coadjutor of the charlatan, Mondor, delighted Parisian idlers at the beginning of the seventeenth century with his jokes, which earned for him immortality in the verses of Baileau and La Fontaine. In the play a love tale is, of course, introduced.

Tabarins wife runs away with a young student, Gauthier, during the performance of one of Tabarins extemporized farces on the open stage of the Pont Neuf, Tabarins outbreak of passionate despair which ensues is assumed by the spectators to be part of the fun, and, in spite of asservations to the contrary, is received with the customary laughter and applause. It is only when the runaway couple have been overtaken, and the wife brought back, that the real state of affairs is understood, and then Tabarin protects her from public indignation by pretending that his apparent grief was, in truth, but a part of the comedy. This theme has suggested to Pessard a libretto for a charming musical work, distinguished by refined and graceful instrumentation and flowing melody. The subject also provides opportunity for picturesque scenery. The second act is particularly pretty.

It represents the entrance to the Pont Neuf, Tabarins stage, the statue of Henry IV, and the buildings of two hundred and fifty years ago. In this scene is also an amusing ballet. The flower girls, soldiers and citizens, in the costumes of the time, who surround Tabarins stage, vividly recall Paris of the reign of the grand monarque. In the first act the best impressions were made by a love sonnet, Dun pauvre clerc de la Basoche, a song to the merits of a love potion, Sil etait vrai pour-tant, and the final chorus of the populace, praying the jealous Tabarin to abandon the idea of quitting his admiring Parisians. In the second act a chorus of flower girls and an accompaniment to a rigadoon dance were especially distinguished.

Tabarin has no overture, but is preceded by an elegant prelude. The score counts seventeen numbers, and has three tenor parts, two parts for bass voices, two for baritone, and two for soprano. The title part is performed by Melchissedec, and the other principal parts by Mme. Dufrene and Messrs. Dercims and Sapin.

There was a very brilliant house. 92.00. 92.50. Bound in Boards, Full Cloth, WINNERS AMERICAN ORGANIST. The seoond of Winners New American Instructors uniform in style of publication with the first-named.

Complete and practical instruction, and entirely unlike any other cheap instructor for this favorite instrument. Mr. Winner has shown remarkably good taste in the selection and arrangement of the entire work, and he is of the opinion that teachers and students will appreciate the labor and care that he has bestowed on its compilation. WINNERS AMERICAN PIANIST. The third of a series of books destined to have a world-wide reputation.

Printed on good paper, with elegant granite cover, similar to above-mentioned. This in fact, all of the books of the series will quickly attract the attention of the buyers and examination will surely convince of the force of our statements. Fine selection of the best operatic airs, waltzes, marches, songs, etc. Complete and clear instruction. WINNERS AMERICAN FLUTIST.

The fourth of our new and valuable set of Instructors is worthy the examination of teachers and those who are about commencing the study of this instrument. It contains the rudiments of music clearly expressed, full explanation of the instrument, and a vast collection of the most popular music for practice and pleasure WINNERS AMERICAN CORNETIST. The fifth book of this well-known series is the Cornetist, and we are sure of its sustaining the favorable impressions created by the first four. Cheap instructors for this instrument have been limited, and of the very poorest class, both as regards explanations and music. The Cornetist, like all the others of this series, is double the size of similar-priced books, and will fill a great want.

Send for a sample copy. WINNERS AMERICAN GUITARIST. The sixth of fctandard American Series of Instruc tors is the Guitarist. The rudimental portion of this book has been arranged with the same care that has been bestowed on the others. The selections for instruction and amusement are arrangements of the most popular songs, operatic airs, waltzes, marches, etc.

It contains 64 sheet-music size plates and is by all means the best book for the Guitar published. The selections are new and carefully arranged. SOCIAL HOURS. FOR FLUTE ANTO PIANO 92.00. 92.50.

Bound In Boards, Full Cloth, Two handsome and attractive volumes, containing the most popular airs arranged for the Violin (or Flute) and Piano-Among the contents will be found the most popular Waltzes, Marches, Polkas, Galops, Schottisches, Overtures, Quadrilles, together with desirable selections from popular Operas and Ballads. We are satisfied that Social Hours will be the means of giving both pleasure and instruction. -TWO POPULAR SOCIAL HOURS FOR THE VIOLIN. Bound In Half Cloth, 91.00. SOCIAL HOURS FOR THE FLUTE, Bound in Half Cloth, 9100.

Containing the same melodies, without the Piano Accompaniment, for the use of Violin and Flute players. Amateurs and others will be much pleased with Social Hour. TRUE TO ITS WINNERS AMERICAN CLARIONETIST. Until the appearance of the Clarionet ist, we doubt if any teacher or player of the instrument had ever seen a good 75-cent instructor for the Clarionet. Of oourse, there are plenty of them selling at the same price, but as our new books are double the eize and, to say the least, years ahead of the others, we can claim with confidence that teachers will appreciate and use the Clarionetist in preference to any other.

WINNERS AMERICAN FIFER. Mr. Winner says we cannot call this the Fifist, for it will not sound well so we had to compromise -on the name and call it American Fifer. At any rate, the player will be the last one to object to this, as it is all that is claimed for the other seven of the series, and the only cheap Fife instructor, containing the latest and most popular music for this instrument, WINNERS GUITAR PRACTICE. Convinced of the fact that there are a great number 1 of performers who desire a book containing only the latest and most popular music, arranged for the Guitar, without the rudimental instruction, Mn Winner confidently submits his new work, knowing that it will prove a companion and pastime to all lovers of this instrument.

Guitar Practice contains 64 pages of popular music, and is published in a manner similar to the same authors celebrated American Instructors; it presents an attractive appearanoe and is worthy the examination of tousicians. Easily Explained. Mrs. Blank The rage for old things seems to have extended to pianos. We must have one.

Mr. Blank" Oh! I guess old pianos are not coming into style. Mrs. Blank But they are. A New York paper says that a family near Harlem Bridge boasts of having the oldest piano in the United States.

Mr. Blank Don't believe it. Mrs. Blank And why dont you Mr. Blank Because the people in that neighborhood have better sense.

Mrs. Blank" Then how do you account for that statement in the piper? Mr. Blank It is simple enough. editor evidently has his eye on some property near Hatlem Bridge and wants to frighten the present owners into selling out cheap. Old Mother 'Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone but when the got there the cupboard was bare, and so her poor dog had none.

It is suspected that the bone, dressed up in one of the old ladys costumes, had gone out for a walk. Boston Transcript. NEW FAVORITE. W. T.

GIFFE. For Singing Schools, Musical Conventions Institutes and Choirs. This book, true to its name, is a general favorite with 'singing teachers and vocalists generally wherever it has been used. New Favorite is the "Cream of Success says an eminent scholar and musician. The Rudimental I Department is unsurpassed in its simplicity and comprehensiveness.

New Favorite contains the best material for Choirs, Concerts and publio occasions. 75 CENTS PER COPY; $7.50 PER DOZEN. v''.