Show THE CHILD MUSICIAN ap the illness of little josef hoffman which has haa necessitated his retirement can pro doce no comment more appropriate let us ho hope that it may not prove prophetic than austin Dob hobsons sons poem the child musician ke he had played for his bis lordships lord ships levee he bad played tor for his bis ladyships lady ships whim till the poor little head bead was heavy and the poor little brain would swim and we the face grew heavy and eerie and the large eyes strange and bright and they said too late he is weary legry I 1 he shall rest for at least to nig but at dawn when the birds were waking As aa they watched in the silent room with the sound of a strained cord breaking A something snapped in the gloom a string of his violin cello and they heard him stir in his bed make room for a tired little fellow kind god I 1 was the last that he said |