On Sunday morning (I am sorry to say) once in a month or six weeks, they have what they call a ‘Musical Reading.’’ It is held in a piano-forte ware-room, and there all the scholars in the higher classes play, so I had to go. Many of the girls play magnificently, and I was amazed at the technique that they had, and at the artistic manner in which even very young girls rendered the most difficult of music, and all without notes. It gave me a severe nervous headache just to hear them. But it was delightful to see them go at it. None of them had the least fear, and they laughed and chatted between the pieces, and when their turn came they marched up to the piano, sat down as bold as lions, and banged away so splendidly! << less