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Show FREE LIBRARY OF MUSIC OPENS Benevolent Patrons Gives N. Y. Institution Fund for New Department NEW YORK. Oct. 10 Music lox-'crs lox-'crs who complain of the high cost of llvlnp; in relation lo tho possible pur-i pur-i I'.iv of music these clays Bo not know of all tho good things that ate pro-' vldod for them lice oi charge, They are unaware thai music may be taken I put of a circulating library just like J books. And now sonic of tho . ry latest lat-est things are hciig added to this musical mu-sical collection. The Fifty-eighth street branch of the NeW York pui.ih library, aa told in a recent library publication, through the receipt of 0 Kift Of money from a benevolent music lover, will' make a subatantlal addition to the store of mu-sic mu-sic on its shelves, and will soon be able I to offer ultra-modern compositions from abroad, seme of then BO new that ih. v cannot yet be purchased In this! country. WOMAN DONOR. Inquirers for music at the Fifty-eighth Fifty-eighth strpot branch are informed that they may borrow music, six volumes at a time, and keep It for two weeks with tho privilege of one renewal i p- era scores and libretto, however, during dur-ing the opera season, are lent for one u .-., only, Some time ago the Fifty-eighth street branch, through the kind inter-! ebl of Elbert Newton, received a gift! of money from a lady wlu.se name is withheld at her request, but whose real: Interest in mush ban shown itself In I many varying benevolences In Now ! York Clt) This gift was designed in' .irl for the purchase of ultra-modei n compositions Mr. Newton la ai present pres-ent in Europe and he has undertaken to expend cine of Mils money for the branch. Ml ii FROM i i ROM Music has already arrived from! London, from Paris and from Madrid The public will find this eondiii,' season sea-son on the shelves of the Fifty-eighth street branch, for free circulation, pl-j ano compositions from the European press, most of which cannot as yet oxen In- purchased in this eountrj Among them are two interesting bal-1 lets "Boutique Fantasque," Rossini-1 Kespighl, and "The Good -Humored I Ladies." Scarlatti-Tomlnastnl. n each case their librettos wore written writ-ten by oet-dramatlsls of the eigh-teenth eigh-teenth century. Rossini's ballet was never used until this revised and modernized mod-ernized edition by kespigi came out ' The I Jood-I Ijimorcd l.adiis" has l.c,-n set by Tommaslnl to three sonatas of' lomenico Scarlatti Tho sI irc settings set-tings of these two ballets were designed design-ed ! Leon Bakst. oo |