The group of new “Mus. Docs." was to have included Verdi and Grieg, but these composers were  unable to accept the invitation of the University.  However, the remaining four constituted a sufficiently illustrious group, and the concert at the  Cambridge Guildhall was of memorable interest.  Saint-Saens played for the first time the brilliant  pianoforte fantasia “Africa," which he had lately  written at Cairo; Max Bruch directed a choral  scene from his “Odysseus"; and Boito conducted  the prologue from “Mefistofele, " Georg Henschel  singing the solo part. Finally, Tschaikowsky directed the first performance in England of his  fine symphonic poem, “Francesca da Rimini,'' a  work depicting with graphic power the tormenting winds wherein Dante beholds Francesca in the  “Second Circle" and hears her recital of her  sad story, as described in the fifth canto of the  “Inferno.'' The ovation that greeted each master in turn will be readily imagined.