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FEBRUARY and instructs in the true art of singing on the principles of the Old Italian School. C He is also a capable conductor, and directs two singitig societies which have given some very successful concerts under the leadership of his baton. After studying abroad until 1889, he came to this country and won a free scholarship at the National Con- servatory of Music of America. On graduating he toured the country with several operatic companies until the season of 1896, when he received a flattering offer to teach his method of tone production at the New York College of Music. Here he was engaged until recently, when he was called to take charge of the vocal department of the Mollenhauer Conservatory of Music. His Russian records for the Phonograph have been eagerly sought after by Russians in this country and also have been exported in large quantities to the land of the Czar, where, as in the United States, the Phonograph is gaining adherents by the thousands every year. INSTEAD OF A PARISH CLERK. A French priest in a rural parish of the Allier Depart- ment has found new possibilities in the Phonograph. As the result of his own unfortunate temper it became impos- sible to And a parish clerk, and the cure was at his wit's end how to conduct the service of the church. Then a happy inspiration struck him. • He bought a Phonograph, and on the following Sunday, says the “ Petit Var,” the simple rustics were dumbfounded to hear the clerk’s re- sponses proceed from a little box on the altar steps .—Music Trade Review, November 16, 1900.