had used, and are now using, the book. That
is a part only of what the sale of one copy
represented.

Mr. Hullah's earnestness and skill were soon
appreciated. At the outset of his career he was
appointed professor of vocal music at King's
College, where he still, as professor, teaches
church singing to students of the theological
department. In 'forty-four, a class of about
fifty was formed for a daily lesson, on Mr.
Hullah's system, at Trinity College,
Cambridge. Its members were heads of colleges,
tutors, and masters of arts. The ladies of the
same families had their own class in the hour
following. In four or five months these students
sang glees, madrigals, part songs, anthems, and
motets of rather more than ordinary difficulty.
The lessons were resumed after the long
vacation, and at the end of the year several private
choral performances were given at Trinity
Lodge. A class for the undergraduates had
been at work also; and there were classes for
townspeople of divers grades. Mr. Banister,
who represented Mr. Hullah in this leavening
of Cambridge with a sense of music, taught also
in London a class of the wives, sisters, and
daughters of mechanics, who, attending
themselves, several hundred strong, to be taught by
Mr. Hullah, begged that a class might be formed
also for their women-folk. The result was a
class of seventy, to which the women came half
an hour before time to secure good places,
anxiously conning their last lesson while they
waited, and at which they made progress with a
speed only to be accounted for by those who
could picture the home evenings in which the
husband and father joined with his own household
in song, and when comparing the fruits of
their lessons they all helped each other.

A more striking illustration of the diffused
influence of Mr. Hullah's enthusiasm, is to be
found in the result of the labours of Mr.
Constantine among the mountains of Cumberland
and amidst the whirr of the machinery of
northern England, among a people famous in
these days for their good choral singing. When,
in 'forty-two, Mr. Constantine began working
Mr. Hullah's system, under the direction of Mr.
Crowe, at Liverpool, he taught first a mixed
class of ladies and gentlemen in the National
Schoolroom at Birkenhead, and gradually
undertook the following round as his week's work.
We begin it in the middle: Wednesday, the
first business, was to get to Ulverston, twenty-
two miles distant; the way being across the
sands of Morecombe Bay. This journey, in
winter time, had to be made often in the dark,
because the low tide and the morning sun would
not always keep in harmony together. The
winter fogs, too, are, in Morecombe Bay, not
very welcome to a lonely rider travelling on
horseback, and obliged to rely on his horse's
knowledge of the track. Class-day in quiet
Ulverston was always a gala-day. The singing-
master's horse was sure to be well looked alter.
For Ulverston, the town farthest north in
Lancashire, stands on a tongue of land where there
was nothing to enliven its work, but the market
day, till the musician came. The four thousand
inhabitants yielded three singing classes.
One contained about fifty ladies and gentlemen,
another forty children, and the other was a
general class of a hundred. The excellent
organist kept up the work, and has conducted an
Ulverston musical society from that time, we
believe, to this. People came from miles away
to be taught in these classes. A cart-load of
poor children used to be sent by a kind lady
from Bardsea. A hale old clergyman walked, in
all weathers, nine miles into Ulverston and nine
miles home again, to qualify himself for teaching,
upon Mr. Hullah's system, his school-children
and parishioners, that so he might elevate not
only the music in his church, but also the happiness,
and even the morals of his district. He was
rewarded with a success beyond his expectations.
On Thursday the lecturer went on to Ambleside,
a ride of twenty-one miles, to a place that
is, in winter, very quiet, with its five or six
hundred inhabitants sorely in need of wholesome
entertainment. Here, where there used to be
the most horribly nasal and inharmonious
imitation of church music, there is now sung by
the people a plain musical service, irreproachable
in taste. On Friday the round was from
Ambleside, fourteen miles on, to Kendal, where
there were four pretty good classes, but these
did not live to a second course. Sixteen miles
on, next day, Saturday, brought the teacher to
Casterton schools. Having taught there, a ride
of seventeen miles to Preston was followed by
a railway journey to Lancaster and back, to
meet classes there. Sunday was spent at Preston.
A ten-mile-ride, on Monday, to Blackburn,
carried the music-master to three classes, the
last a very large one, chiefly composed of
factory hands. On Tuesday the Lancaster
classes were revisited, by way of Preston, and
so the week's round ran for one of Mr. Hullah's
propagandists, in the winter of the year one
thousand eight hundred and forty-three. The
elementary classes led to the forming of an
advanced class, for the practice of Part Music in
Preston, Lancaster, Ulverston, and Ambleside.
The largest classes, however, were those at
Penrith. The same teacher afterwards taught in other
towns both in the North and West of England.
At the present time sixty or seventy students
leave every year the Home and Colonial Schools,
and twice as many are in training. The national
training schools—St. Mark's, Chelsea; Battersea
College; Whitelands—each yield about fifty
teachers every year, teachers who have had some
musical training. At very many schools—indeed,
in all parts of the country—the good work is
going on. In Mr. Hullah's personal teaching
the interest has been so strong, that some
members of his first upper school, formed twenty
years ago, have abided by the classes until
their recent dispersion. One energetic pupil
walked twelve miles to a railway station, thirty
miles distant from London, on his class nights,
and was punctual in attendance. The head of a
private school at Tunbridge attended a course,