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and orchestral music under Haydn and Bee- 

 thoven (1770-1827). The nineteenth century 

 has been illustrated by such names as Men- 

 delssohn, Weber, Meyerbeer, Auber, Schubert, 

 Spohr, Schumann, Chopin, Rossini, Bellini, 

 Verdi; and in England, Sterndale, Bennett, 

 and Macfarren. Of the later German school 



the chief exponents have been Wagner 

 (1813-'83) and Liszt (d. 1886). Other lead- 

 ing composers are Gounod, in France ; Boito. 

 in Italy ; Rubinstein and Brahms, in Ger- 

 many ; Dvordk, in Bohemia ; Grieg, in Scan- 

 dinavia, and Sullivan, Mackenzie, Stanford, 

 and Cowen, in England. 



The Name of God in Forty-Eight Languages. 



The Salvation Army. The Salvation 

 Army is a missionary organization set on foot 

 in England by William Booth, who was called 

 the "General" of the Army. The plan of 

 operation is for a company to march about 

 cities, towns, and villages, singing popular 

 sacred songs and speaking between whiles for 

 about five minutes. The Army has also a large 

 number of religious periodicals and small books. 

 Air. Booth was a minister of the Methodist New 

 Connexion, which he left in 1861 to begin " re- 

 vivalistic services " in a tent in Whitechapel. 

 In 1865 his little band of followers called them- 

 selves " The East London Christian Revival 

 Society," afterwards changed to " The Chris- 

 tian Mission." In 1869 the Mission made ex- 

 peditions to provincial towns. Lastly, in 1873, 

 the name was changed to ' ' The Salvation 

 Army. ' ' Its literary organ, called The Christian 

 Mission, first appeared monthly in 1874. In 

 1879 it was called The Salvationist and in the 

 same year its title was changed into The War 

 Cry. Its flag now flies in thirty-four countries 

 or colonies, where, under the leadership of 

 11,149 men and women, whose lives are 

 entirely given up to the work, 49,800 religious 

 meetings are held every week. The Army has 

 27 weekly newspapers and 15 magazines, with 

 a total annual circulation of 49,015,044. It 

 has accumulated 14,015,085 worth of property, 

 pays rentals amounting to $ 1,100, 000 per an- 

 num for its meeting places, and has a total in- 

 come from all sources of $3,750,000. The 

 Army literature is issued in 15 languages and 

 services are held in 29 languages. The num- 

 ber of local officers, bandsmen, and office em- 

 ployees is 23,540. The United States branch 

 was established in 1880. There are now in 



this country 536 corps and outposts and 1,487 

 officers, and 15,000 adherents. The value of 

 the property held by the United States wing of 

 the Army is $175,000. 



United States Naval Academy at 

 Annapolis. - There are allowed at the Acad- 

 emy one naval cadet for each member or 

 delegate of the United States House of Repre- 

 sentatives, one for the District of Columbia, 

 and ten at large. The appointment of cadets 

 at large, and for the District of Columbia, is 

 made by the President. The Secretary of the 

 Navy, as soon after March 5 in each year as 

 possible, must notify in writing each member 

 and delegate of the House of Representatives 

 of any vacancy that may exist in his district. 

 The nomination of a candidate to fill the vacancy 

 is made on the recommendation of the member 

 or delegate, by the Secretary. Candidates 

 must be actual residents of the districts from 

 which they are nominated. 



The course of naval cadets is six years, the 

 last two of which are spent at sea. Candidates, 

 at the time of their examination for admission, 

 must not be under fifteen nor over twenty 

 years of age, and physically sound, well formed, 

 and of robust condition. They enter the 

 Academy immediately after passing the pre- 

 scribed examinations, and are required to sign 

 articles binding themselves to serve in the 

 United States Navy eight years (including the 

 time of probation at the Naval Academy), un- 

 less sooner discharged. The pay of a naval 

 cadet is five hundred dollars a year, beginning 

 at the date of admission. 



Appointments to fill all vacancies that occur 

 during a year in the lower grades of the Line 

 and Engineer Corps of the Navy and of the 



