Grieg was made a Mus. Doc. of Cambridge, honoris causa, in May, 1894. In an earlier chapter I have made reference to his zeal as a conductor. Some of his Scots ancestry was perhaps responsible for the snap and go so frequently revealed in himself and in his compositions; yet he had another side, as will be remembered by those who were at the Philharmonic Concert in St. James's Hall in May, 1888. He conducted the orchestra in his two "Elegiac Melodies," and played his Pianoforte Concerto, but surely the rare charm of that evening was the singing by Madame Grieg of some of her husband's songs to his accompaniment, songs which led several of the critics to proclaim a new range of emotion found in subtlety of rhythm and curiously arresting turns of expression.