On June 12th, 1893, my son Albert, an under- graduate at the time, asked me to come on a visit to Cambridge : a concert was to be given by the Cambridge University Musical Society, of which he was a member, in honour of Max Bruch, Boito, Saint-Saens, and Tschaikowsky. All four composers took part in the concert at the Guildhall, Max Bruch conducting a scene from his Odysseus, Boito " The Prelude in Heaven " from his Mefistofele, and Tschaikow- sky his Francesco, da Rimini. Saint-Saens played his fantasia Africa, and Stanford's East to West was also given. The members of the Musical Society sang the choruses, and they gave the composers a tremendous welcome. After the concert was over I met my boy, who was quite hoarse from singing and cheering, and we went down to the river to see the boats " bumping." << less