THE CAMBRIAN.

Now, go write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

PROF. DAVID DAVIES, CINCINNATI, O.

(The following sketch is copied from The Criterion, a monthly magazine published in Cincinnati.)

Cincinnati is pre-eminently a city of musicians and teachers, and none are more famous in the country at large. Much of the prominence of our city as a music center is due to their efforts, which are still increasing in the advancement of this feature of the city's growth. In this issue we present a brief biographical sketch of Mr. David Davies, our resident

tenor, who is a native of Waenfergy Farm, Talsarn, Cardiganshire, South Wales, where he first saw the light of day May 3, 1855. At the age of thirteen, with his widowed mother and three other children, all younger than himself, he came to Cincinnati, and from that time, while hardly more than a child, became the main support of the little family. On his arrival in this country he still spoke his own Welsh tongue, but at once embraced the opportunity offered

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under Prof. Bush Foley, where he remained until Easter, 1884. At that time, on the organizing of the surpliced choir of men and boys at St. Paul's Church, in this city, he was induced to accept the position of tenor soloist. With this choir he is still identified, and its success has been largely due to his faithful and intelligent interest. He has now many engagements in oratorios and other concerts in this country, and has received the responsible appointment as adjudicator of Welsh competitive Eisteddfods in Utica, Pittsburgh and other smaller cities. In the summer of 1884, again visiting Wales, he fulfilled an engagement as tenor of the Madam Antoinette Sterling Concert Troupe. David Davies' voice is a strictly lyric tenor of manly, resonant quality, and the pure ease and evenness of his tone, the finish of his phrasing and expression, and his wonderful clearness of articulation betray his finished schooling and intelligent conception and taste. In refinement of mind, heart and manner he represents the ideal musician. The striking modesty and integrity of his characrer, and the kindliness and faithfulness of his friendships have won him unwonted social popularity, while as a teacher his conscientious interest in his art and his pupils have ever insured him wellmerited success.

him, in our public night schools, of obtaining a good English education, while he applied himself to a mechanic's trade and soon became well known as an industrious and skilled artisan. He had already developed a passionate fondness for music, and was known, in his small circle of Welsh friends, as possessing a magnificent voice. He had as yet acquired no knowledge of the art, and did not until after his twentieth year, when, at the persistent requests of his musical comrades, with shrinking modesty, he presented himself as a pupil to Prof. Carl Paltot, then a resident teacher in this city. The Professor, on hearing the promising voice, at once exclaimed, "Young man, there is money in your throat." The ambition of the youthful vocalist was soon aroused, and in the autumn of 1877 he returned to his native country and entered the University of Wales, at Aberystwith, where for three years, with his characteristic assiduity, he studied the arts of vocalism, harmony, counterpoint and composition, under the celebrated master, Dr. Joseph Parry, one of Great Britain's foremost musicians. During the latter period of his university course he first appeared in public, singing in oratorio and miscellaneous concerts in London and many prominent places in the principality of Wales, and returned to the United States in the summer of 1880, as the tenor of Dr. Parry's Concert Company, traveling with them thro' Pennsylvania and Ohio. In the win- The Kellogg Prize Oration at Hamilton College,

ter of 1880, Mr. Davies established himself as a teacher of singing and harmony in Cincinnati. He was at once elected director of the Cincinnati Welsh Choral Society, and accepted the positions as the tenor in the Plum Street Jewish Synagogue (which position he still holds), and slso at Trinity Church, Covington,

THE WELSHMEN IN EARLY
AMERICAN HISTORY.

M. Y.

BY MR. ALBERT EVANS, ROME, N. Y.

"One of the potent causes of national greatness," says an eminent writer, "apart from its God-given life, is the fusion of the race elements which compose it."

Of no nation is this more striking