New England CONSERVATORY

OF MUSIC

GEORGE W. CHADWICK, Director

SCHOOL YEAR OPENS SEPTEMBER 21, 1916
Pupils Received for a Single Subject as Well as for Full Courses
CLASS OR PRIVATE INSTRUCTION

Pianoforte, Organ, Voice, Violin and all other Orchestral Instruments, Composition, Harmony,
History of Music, Theory, Solfeggio, Literature, Diction, Choir Training, Ensemble, Wood-wind
Ensemble and String Quartet. The Normal Department affords practical training for teaching.
Languages: French, Italian and German.

Dramatic Department. Practical training in acting.

The free privileges of lectures, concerts and recitals, the opportunities of ensemble practice, and ap-
pearing before audiences with a complete orchestra, and the daily associations are invaluable ad-
vantages to the music student.

Offices Open for Registration September 14th

FOR PARTICULARS AND YEAR BOOK APPLY TO

RALPH L. FLANDERS, General Manager

HOTELS INDIAN RIVER AND ROCKLEDGE, Rockledge, Fla. Located 150 miles below Jacksonville on the Indian River, in the midst of the famous Indian River orange groves. A great deal of money has been spent on the property, making the hotels equal to the best in the state. Hunting and fishing as good as there is to be had in Florida. One of the great attractions is the golf course, one of the best in the South. Boating, motor boating, tennis, billiards, pool and dancing. Opens January 4th. Accommodates 400. Write for circular. Address W.W. Brown, Hotel Manhattan, 42nd St., New York City, until Dec. 25th; then Rockledge, Florida.

Summer season, Granliden Hotel, Lake Sunapee, N. H.

Ask for SOCONY gasoline by name and buy only where
you sec the RED, WHITE and BLUE SOCONY sign.

STANDARD OIL CO. of NEW YORK

THE WORKS OF ROWLAND THOMAS

Winner of the $5000 Short Story
Prize awarded by Collier's Weekly

With Rowland Thomas the ranks of American literature
have acquired a fresh, original writer of unusual power.
-Philadelphia Public Ledger.

A Picturesque Romance
of the Tropics

FELICIDAD

When a weary and aimless wanderer over the seas ran the bow of his prau on to the gleam

ROWLAND THOMAS

ing sands of Felicidad, the place cast its spell on him and he stayed, stayed to become one of the town's chief citizens and its greatest hero.

Once in a while a book is published that is so novel in theme and treatment that it takes the reviewers by storm. Such a story is ROWLAND THOMAS'S

FATIMA

Or Always Pick a Fool for a Husband Arthur B. Maurice, the Editor of The Bookman, in including "Fatima" as one of the ten best novels of 1913, pronounces it "one of the few genuine novelties of the year."

Philippine Realism by an American Kipling
THE LITTLE GODS

The author of this stirring and powerful book of life in the Philippines was awarded the $5,000 prize, from 30,000 competitors, by Collier's Weekly for his remarkable story of "Fagan," which forms the first chapter of "The Little Gods." Illustrated

$1.50 net

LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Publishers

34 BEACON STREET, BOSTON

The

Little Gods

ROWLAND THOMAS

Little Brown

and Company

THE

THE BEST PLACE TO BUY A PIANO is at Steinert's, where you can select from the largest and best stock of well-known Pianos---where there is the greatest variety of styles, widest range of prices, highest standards of quality and low, fair prices. There is a reason why we sell more pianos than any other house in New England.

Steinway Pianos

Jewett Pianos

Woodbury Pianos

The famous Pianola Player Pianos

VICTROLAS

$15 to $400

and the largest stock of Victor Records in New England

at M. Steinert & Sons Company

New England's Largest Musical Instrument House

162 Boylston Street

Boston

242 Main Street

Springfield