Bath in its relation to Art. 



that of the City Band, with Herr van Praag as its leader. 

 The daily crowds in the Park and the Pump Room witness 

 to the extent to which the taste of former days prevails. 

 The lessee of the Theatre kindly lends it for a gratuitous 

 popular concert of high-class music, the building being 

 crowded to excess. And if to this work be added the 

 operas at the Theatre, other performances at the Assembly 

 Rooms, and numerous amateur private concerts, it will be 

 seen that Music now maintains a position in Bath which 

 would have satisfied even the Linleys, Herschels and 

 Rauzzinis of former days. 



Industrial Arts. 



For a long time, up to the middle of the last century, 

 Bath was known as a clothing town. There is a tradition 

 that in the Saxon period the armorial emblem of its great 

 monastery was a, shuttle. Many towns and villages in 

 Somerset, Gloucester, and Wilts still carry on the same 

 industry. Twerton, within two miles of Bath, has a large 

 factory noted for its good broad cloth and other woollen 

 ^Qods. 



The woollen manufacture of the district may have chiefly 

 caused the formation, in 1777, of "The Bath and West of 

 England Society.'' Its object was "the promotionof Agricul- 

 ture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce,'' and its founders — 

 the Duke of Bedford, Sir B. Hobhouse, Dr. Parry, and others 

 were especially interested in the breeding of sheep. In recent 

 years the annual meetings have been made more instructive 

 by the addition of specimens of the fine arts in one spacious 

 building and of notable manufactures in another. The 

 Exhibition at the hundredth anniversary, celebrated at Bath 



