BARTHOLOMEW, Ann Sheppard Mounsey

It is somewhat remarkable that music, as a means of emotional expression, should have found so few exponents among women. That an art so graceful in itself and so eminently suited to the refined capabilities of women should find less favour with them than the sister art of poetry seems phenomenal, and indicative to a considerable extent of the disadvantages presented by the technical requirements of musical composition. Poetry has been graced by many female writers of rare merit, and can...