CONTENTS.

A Description of Music

The Music of Nature

A Glance at the History of Music

The Beauty, Power, and Uses of Music

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (the "Black Swan")

The Luca Family

Henry F. Williams

Justin Holland

Thomas J. Bowers (the "American Mario")

James Gloucester Demarest

Thomas Greene Bethune ("Blind Tom")

The Hyers Sisters

Frederick Elliot Lewis

Nellie E. Brown

Samuel W. Jamieson

Joseph White (preceded by a brief account of the Violin, pp. 

The Colored American Opera Company

The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University

The Georgia Minstrels

PART SECOND.

Introduction

Rachel M. Washington

James Caseras

John T. Douglass

Walter F. Craig

William Appo

William Brady

Peter P. O'Fake

Frank Johnson, and his Famous Military Band and Orchestra

Joseph G. Anderson

Madam Brown

Sarah Sedgewick Bowers

John Moore

Samuel Lucas

William H. Starr

G.H.W. Stewart

The Lambert Family

Edmund Dédé

Basile Barès

Samuel Snaer

Prof. A.P. Williams

E.V. Macarty

Maurice J.B. Doublet

Dennis Auguste

The Dupré Family

Charles Martinez

Thomas Martin

Other Musical People of

Portland (Me.)

Boston

Worcester

New York

Newark

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Cleveland

Washington (O.)

Chillicothe (O.)

Cincinnati

Chicago

The Music of the South

Baltimore

Louisville

St. Louis

Helena

Memphis

Nashville

New Orleans