"The Old Sexton"
60. "The Ivy Green"
61. "Then you'll remember Me"
62. "Scenes that are Brightest"
63. "When the Swallows homeward fly"
64. "Oh! whisper what Thou feelest"
65. "My Pretty Jane"
66. "Castles in the Air"
67. "Mary of Argyle"
68. "A Home by the Sea"
69. Byron's "Farewell to Tom Moore"

=Parlor Selections.=

70. Waltz in A flat _Chopin_
71. Waltz in E flat "
72. Waltz in D flat "
73. Tarantelle in A flat _Stephen Heller_
74. "Josephine Mazurka" _Heller_
75. "Polonaise" _Weber_
76. Nuit Blanche _Stephen Heller_
77. Spring Dawn Mazurka _William Mason_
78. "Monastery Bells"
79. "California Polka" _Herz_
80. "Alboni Waltzes" _Schuloff_
81. "L'Esplanade" _Hoffman_
82. Anen Polka

_Programme for the evening to be selected from the preceding._]

XII.

ANNA MADAH AND EMMA LOUISE HYERS,

VOCALISTS AND PIANISTS.

THE "HYERS SISTERS."--AN ACROSTIC.

"Hail, tuneful sisters of a Southern clime!
Your dulcet notes inspire my rhyme:
Each in your voice perfection seem,--
Rare, rich, melodious. We might deem
Some angel wandered from its sphere,
So sweet your notes strike on the ear.
In song or ballad, still we find
Some beauties new to charm the mind.
Trill on, sweet sisters from a golden shore;
Emma and Anna, sing for us once more;
Raise high your voices blending in accord:
So shall your fame be widely spread abroad."

M.E.H., _in Boston Daily News_.

One day, two little girls, the one aged seven and the other nine
years, came gayly, gleefully tripping into the room where their
parents sat quietly conversing, and soon began to sing some of the
songs and to enact some of the scenes from operas, performances of
which they had occasionally witnessed at the theatre. This they did,
of course, in childlike, playful manner, yet not without a showing,
considering their ages, of a surprising degree of correctness.

[Illustration: EMMA LOUISE HYERS.]

[Illustration: ANNA MADAH HYERS.]

Their parents at first, however, only laughed at wha