A rather celebrated composer had asked Brahms to be allowed to play to him from the MS. his latest composition, a violin concerto. Brahms consented to hear it and seated himself near the piano. Mr. - played his work with great enthusiasm and force, the perspiration it was a very warm day streaming down his face. When he had finished, Brahms got up, approached the piano, took a sheet of the manuscript between his thumb and middle finger and, rubbing it between them, exclaimed, "I say, where do you buy your music paper? First rate! "