gramme, require a master hand to provide continuity of
interest. _To say that Mr Lamond successfully avoided moments that
might at times, in these works, have inclined to comparative
disinterestedness, would be but a moderate way of expressing the
remarkable fascination with which his versatile playing endowed them_,
but _at the same time_ two of the sonatas given included a similar form
of composition, and no matter how intellectually brilliant may be the
interpretation, the extravagant use of a certain mode is bound in time
to become somewhat ineffective. In the Three Sonatas, the E major (Op.
109), the A major (Op. 2), No. 2, and the C minor (Op. 111), Mr Lamond
signalised his perfect insight into the composer's varying moods.

Will you not agree with me that here is no writing, here is no prose,
here is not even English, but merely a flux of words to the pen?

Here again is a string, a concatenation--say, rather, a tiara--of gems of
purest ray serene from the dark unfathomed caves of a Scottish
newspaper:--

The Chinese viewpoint, as indicated in this letter, may not be without
interest to your readers, because it evidently is suggestive of more
than an academic attempt to explain an unpleasant aspect of things
which, if allowed to materialise, might suddenly culminate in disaster
resembling the Chang-Sha riots. It also ventures to illustrate
incidents having their inception in recent premature endeavours to
accelerate the development of Protestant missions in China; but we
would hope for the sake of the interests involved that what my
correspondent describes as 'the irresponsible ruffian element' may be
known by their various religious designations only within very
restricted areas.

Well, the Chinese have given it up, poor fellows! and are asking the
Christians--as to-day's newspapers inform us--to pray for them. Do you
wonder? But that is, or was, the Chinese 'viewpoint,'--and what a
willow-pattern viewpoint! Observe its delicacy. It does not venture to
interest or be interesting; merely 'to be not without interest.' But it
does 'venture to illustrate incidents'--which, for a viewpoint, is brave
enough: and this illustration 'is suggestive of something more than an
academic attempt to explain an unpleasant aspect of things which, if
allowed to materialise, might suddenly culminate.' What materialises? The
unpleasant aspect? or the things? Grammar says the 'things,' 'th