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you will go down with me. You looked hipped, and it will do you good. Shall I send down and pay your cabman ?"

"Setter," said his Lordship, wringing his hand, "you are infernal good fellow after all. I've half a mind to come. Don't let

the cabman impose on you; it's fifty yards under the five mile from Beaufort House here. Don't wait for me. Ta, ta."

"Curse his impudence," subjoined Lord Wilfred, between his teeth, as he leisurely descended the stairs; "I'll Wilfred him."

(To be continued.)

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CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS.

NEW SERIES.-No. 22.

ARTHUR SULLIVAN.

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ENGLAND has given to the world of art comparatively little in the
music. But England is only just awakening to an artistic consciousness
in certain respects, while, curiously enough, the mechanical supremacy
which has been hers so long is now becoming less conspicuously mani-
fest. Perhaps, when we attain our full beatific vision of beauty, we shall
have put away many of the old qualities for which the sturdy English-
man has been noted; and, like the swan, shall come to our music only when
we are going to die. However, John Bull is not yet quite so far gone as
to think of making his will, and waning away to slow music; and indeed
the kind of music which is a native product is not at all like the pathetic
swan-song, but rather the reverse. Mr. Sullivan's music, for instance,
and especially his recent music, is rather the voice of a humorous
person who persists in enjoying living, and is fond of having a quip with
his friends. "H.M.S. Pinafore certainly seems to suggest rude health
rather than sublimated æsthetics or bardic forewarnings; and yet-one
ominous fact shines out with weird prominence even in the matter of
"H.M.S. Pinafore." The ancient decaying races of the world are those
in whom politeness is the most conspicuous quality. The captain of that
famous vessel has a remarkable and exemplary gift of politeness, quite
foreign to the recorded character of those stentorian old salts who won
our victories for us. But our subject is leading us too deep into political
economy; we have to follow the career of Mr. Sullivan, and not to let
out line for deep-sea soundings into the future and the effects of art.

Arthur Seymour Sullivan was born May 13, 1842, his father being bandmaster at Sandhurst, and after Kneller Hall, the Military School of Music, was founded, in 1857, professor there of the bass brass instruments. Arthur was thus brought up to music. When a very small child he went into the Chapel Royal, under Helmore. Here his sweet and charming voice brought him into notice, and was a marked attraction, which people flocked to the Chapel Royal to hear. While there he used to compose anthems, &c., thus evidencing his natural bent.

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