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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 839, 10 June 1910, Page 9

If the critics follow this advice they will bo more disliked than ever. But let not the musicians suppose that the horrid critics are happy, either. They bavo troubles of their own, and often, when all around them are having a good time, they nearly expire from ennui. As ouo writer has remarked, "the awful tortures endured by musical critics are sufficiently acute, without submitting to additional verbal cnstigation." In response to a familiar sneer, the same writer remarks: "Even if critics are not musicians, it does not prove their unfitness to sit in judgment. Critics do not lay eggs, but still may claim to know it good one from a bad one on tasting it. One need not have served an apprenticeship to a tailor to know that one's own or even another man's trousers have not been cut by Poole."