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special notice; a later one, however, became fairly successful, named “At the IFerry)” and at length, amongst many others, he publizhed the song that was destined to make his name popular wherever the

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Engli=h tongue was spoken or sung: the name of this song was * Some Dayv.” There s o little imcident in connection with this song which illustrates once more how craftily: Dame Fortune leads her favoured ones through a maze of circumstances to famec. Mr. Milton Wellings' wife had cmbarked on board a yacht, which had met with an accident. The news of the accident had been conveved to My, Wellines, and it was during his nervous pacing up and down the room that his cyes lighted on a pocm, halt open on the table, by Hugh Conwav. To try and chase his fears away regarding his wife he abstractedly took it up, and by some strange chance the first line actually painted his feclings of distress at that moment. With his attention now riveted on the poems, he read them through, and unconsciously the meclody of *Some Day " sprang into life.

Emboldened by the success of his seng,

Mr. Wellings is now engagea on a novel bearing the same title, let us hope with as fuvourable a termination in its plot as the forcgoing episode, as Mrs, Wellings escaped rom all injury. Mr, Wellings is busy on several orchestral works, which are nearly ready to submit to the public. BiertTHOLD ToOURS,

Mr. Berthold Tours was born December 17, 1838, at Rotterdam. His father was the organist at St Lawrence Church there, and cave him his Arst instruction in music, particularly in the violin, He studied also under Verhulst, who was the intimate fricnd of Mcendelssohn and Schumann., At seventeen he was sent to Leipsic, where, as one of the high-class violin pupils, he was allowed the distinction of plaving in the world-famed Gewand-haus concerts. Among his fellow students at the Conserva- torre was Arthur Sullivan. After leaving Lepsic he aceepted an offer to become a member of the private string quartette of Prince George Galitzin, the son of Prince Nicholas Galitzin. He came to London in IN61 at the request of Prince Galitzin, who was then residing in England. Like many others his cfforts to succeed in [ondon were very trying, but at length he arrested the attention oft Mr. Joseph Barnby, then musical advizer to Messrs. Novello, Ewer & Co., by a couple of anthems, and the mterest aroused in Mr. Barnby resulted in the publication of many works which Mr. Tours had previously written, The anthems

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