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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
EDWARD LYMAN BILL
Editor and Proprietor.
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EVERY
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but surely working an irreparable injury to
the future of this business. They are sell-
ing music, copyrighted and otherwise, at
ruinously low prices, and as long as they
sell at these prices purchasers will patron-
ize them to the injury of the publisher and
the legitimate dealer. Some action should
be taken by the music publishers immedi-
ately. Many publishers feel the competi-
tion of the department stores now, but they
will have much more reason to complain
later on, judging from the marked increase
in the sales of music by these establish-
ments,
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Entered at the New York Post Office as Second- Class Matter.
"THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER "
D
ULL times and good times the Pease
piano maintains its place in popu-
larity. This is due to the constant labors
of the Pease Piano Co. to turn out only in-
struments of admitted excellence. Their
grand piano has been well tried, and it has
won the encomiums of the leading critics,
and their latest styles of uprights also prove
that the name "Pease" on a piano is a
synonym for excellence. A steady and con-
stantly increasing trade has been coming to
the Pease Piano Co., and it is a trade well
earned—it is a signification of the intelli-
gence of the dealers, when merit is so well-
E note in some papers the lack of
criticism—the lack of mention al-
most—of the Steinert-Courier affair. Now
we fail to understand why any institution
calling itself a newspaper, if it has any
right to that name, can afford to ignore the
passing of such an important event. To
give columns to the mention of some cata-
logue which cost only a trivial sum, to give
extended notices to some transfer, of an
agency, to give elongated notices and inter-
ject a little advice as to what a manufactur-
er should do in locating in a certain city,
yet to fail to record one of the most import-
ant events which has transpired recently in
the music trade, is that journalism ? If so,
we fail to comprehend the full meaning of
the word. Is it ignorance or is it cowardice
which causes papers to preserve this silence ?
In either case this action does not dignify
the calling which they pretend to represent.
W
MERICAN manufacturers who are
desirous of making an exhibit at
the Mexican Exposition should lose no time
in making their preliminary arrangements.
Messrs. E. Heuer & Co., well-known deal-
ers in the City of Mexico, advise us that
they will take pleasure in selecting a good
location and attending to the exhibit of
those who do not care to go to the expense
of sending a special representative to that
country. It is proposed to erect a pavillion
for the exhibition of musical instruments,
provided that enough manufacturers an-
nounce their intention of exhibiting their
wares.
This will be an admirable
opportunity to bring musical instruments of
American manufacture before the people
of Latin Ameiica, and of the United States
as well, because there will be vast numbers
of our people who will go to the Mexican
Exposition.
Messrs. E. Heuer & Co. will cheerfully
give any information upon this subject, or
any communication addressed to this office
soliciting information about the Exposition
will be speedily answered.
A
DUCATION is elevating the public
taste with marked effect on journal-
ism as well as on political oratory. As rant
and rhodomontade are now no longer mis-
taken for eloquence in public speaking, so
there is a similar change in the public idea
of what is proper and admirable in the
newspaper. In very remote neighborhoods
in the backwoods the editor will sometimes
call his rival a liar, a pole-cat, a poltroon
and a scoundrel, and by other endearing
terms. But as a whole, public taste and the
public standard of propriety are certainly
being elevated. The time lias come when
both in politics and in journalism it pays
to be manly. There are some trade papers
who have not as yet discarded the use of
billingsgate when referring to their con-
temporaries. Even the classic shades of
Oxford have not entirely obliterated that
innate desire to abuse another man. Now
the world is certainly large enough for us
all to get a fair bite at the crust, and some-
times a sip of ale to wash down the cake.
There is no necessity, and it is exceedingly
poor taste, to call this man and that man a
blackguard simply because he happens to
be in the same line of business and has
achieved some prominence.
E
OVERNOR BROWN, of Maryland,
has called the attention of the Gov-
ernors of all the other cities in the Union
to the fact that June 14th will be the one
hundred and eighteenth anniversary of our
national flag's adoption by Congress, and
says: "While the national hymn, 'Star
Spangled Banner,' is always sung at Flag
Day exercises, which are now being gener-
ally held by the schools, but few yield its
author the reverence his memory deserves.
"No one has ever written anything that
has done more to awaken true patriotism,
appreciated.
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and yet the ashes of Francis Scott Key have
lain for many years unhonored by his coun-
CALL has been issued by the News- trymen beneath the soil of his native coun-
dealers, Booksellers and Stationers' try, in the cemetery of Frederick City,
National Association for a National Con- Md."
vention to be held in Brooklyn, Aug. ,13th-
Governor Brown closes his letter by com-
and 14th. The main object of their gather- mending the worthy object of the Key
BUSINESS PROSPECTS BRIGHTER.
ing will be to take action on the cutting of Monument Association, of Frederick City,
prices of books aud stationery by depart- Md., which is organized for the purpose of
HE commercial reports from all
ment stores.
erecting a monument to the memory ot
authoritative sources for the month of
This is an example which should be fol- Francis*Scott Key—"to redeem the Nation April and the first week of May, show a de-
lowed by the music publishers of this and from the disgrace of over half a century of cidedly improved condition of business
other cities. Pepartment stores are slowly ungrateful neglect.''
throughout the country, not only over the
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