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AISS MAUD VALERIE WHITL.

1SS MAUD VALERIL 2 WHI'UL, was horn at Dieppe during a visit of her parents to Iiurope from Valparaiso. IHer progenitors, however, were English ; her grandfather on the mother s side being a naval officer, who had the distinction of serving with Nelson on board the Fictory, at "I'rafal-

gar, in which cngagement he was wounded. When in her teens, Miss

White took up her residence o Eng- Iaind, and received her first mstruction in music from Mr. W. S, Rockstro and from Mr. Oliver May. In 1876 she cntered the Royal Academy of Music as a student, studying for composition under the late Sir G. A. Macfarren. In 1879 she gained the Mendelssohn Scholarship, the committee of which decided that she should continue her studies at the Academy. DBut it was Mr. Charles Santley who first revealed to the

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public her very remarkable talents, for, having one day been prevailed upon to look at a setting of her’s in the Academy, he was so impressed with the beauty and originality ol 1t, that he sang it in public, and made

of 1t a splendid success. The name of this song was “Montrose’s Love Song.” Mr. Santley also brought the musical N public 1n contact

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s with two of her

most cffective and successful — efforts, viz., “’I'he Devout Lover”and “Absent Yet Present.” Miss White 15 a highly accomplished lin- guist, and hers 15 a familiar face, as an accompanist, at important concerts. Her latest song, written especially for this Magazine, will be found 1n the preceding pages. i 077 . o

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