The music composed by T. R. G. Joze. [Novello and Company Limited.l THE meditative character of the text selected by Mr. Moore is admirably expressed by the suave nature of the vocal part, while the restlessness and longing whicb underlie the words are eSectively suggested by the accompaniment. The song is suitable to a male or female singer, and the compass, only extending from E to E, places the song in this respect within the abilities of a11 vocalists. Sunbeams now-a-days are pressed into various services from taking pE,otographs to killing microbes, but it has been reserved to poets to use them as verbal messengers. Mrs. Crewe seems, howeverJ to have no doubt as to their reliability in this respect if sufficiently trusted by people really in love with each other, and Dr. Joze has set the pleasing fancy in a manner that will appeal to sultured music-lovers, affording opportunity for tenors to advantageously display the charms of their voices and the sanguine nature of their temperament. A feature of the song is the musicianly nature of the pianoforte accompaniment, which, however, is by no means difficult to read at sight. The PrirlCelY C#ndaS. A memoir of the first Duke of Chandos. By John Robert Robinson. New and cheaper edition. [Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Limited.] THE musical interest of this book lies in the fact that the Duke of Chandos employed Handel as his Master of Musik at his princely seat of Canons, near Edgware. Handel who succeeded Dr. Pepusch in this post, composed his celebrated "Chandos Anthems" as well as his oratorio " Esther " during his residence at Canons. If Mr. Robinson does not tell us anything new about the composer of ' The Messiah," he has compiled a very readable account of " The Princely Chandos " and his regal style of living. The eight illustrations are not the least interesting feature of the volume. Nisi Domivs (Except the Lord build the House)* Psalm cxxvii. Composed by G. F. Handel. Edited, with English words and a pianoforte accompaniment, by T. W. Bourne. [Novello and Company Limited.] IT is satisfactory to find that Handel's setting of the I27th Psalm has at last been published in its entirety and furnished with a well-fitted English text. Until Mr. Bourne had shown that the "Gloria Patrit' for doublechorus, published by the German Handel Society, and issued by Messrs. Novello for performance at the Handel Festival of I89I, was the missing number from the " Nisi Dominus," its issue in its present form was impossible, for the music broke off abruptly with the tenor solo " Beatus vir," in B minor. Mr. Bourne has pointed out that the 4' Gloria" is in the same key as the opening number of the " Nisi Dominusl'' that the general usage of repeating the opening phrase of a work at the words "Sicut erat" of the final movement is adopted in this " Gloria," and that Handel followed this practice in a composition of the same period as the " Nisi Dominus." This evidence being accepted as conclusive, it follows that the Psalm was completed in Rome on July I3, I707, which correspo...
