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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 67, 13 December 1918, Page 6

Chopin's burning enthusiasm for the cause of Polish nationality is epitomised in his magnificent study iii C minor, No. 12 of Opus in. While in Paris in 1831 the news reached him of the capitulation of Warsaw to the Russians, and he was overwhelmed with grief and rage at this final disaster to the hopes of the Poles. Physically unfit to help in the revolution, he had watche dit from afar, praying for its success, and this blow prostrated him. But he found some consolation in his beloved piano, and, sitting down at it, he then and there composed tho great C minor study, which surges impetuously up and down the gamut of . sound, allegro con fuoco, from the opening discord to peaceful close on the chord of C major.

"Dearer meat," with which we are sm\r menaced," enys an England paper, "will have no terrors for our descendants, if we' can believe, a prophevy which_ M. Berthelot, the famous French scientist, once made at a banquet of manufacturing chemists. "When energy can be cheaply obtained," he said, "food will be made with cargon token from carbonic acid, hydrogen taken from water, and nitrogen taken fr'»n the air. Beasts need not be bred for slnghter, and barren regions may be preferable tuo fertile as habitable places, because they will not be pestiferous from ages of manuring. There will bo no ne<| to disfigure our planet with tho geometrical works' of the agriculturist or the grime of factory chimneys, and the earth will become a vast pleasure garden." Unluckily, M. Berthelot's delightful millennium is not duo until the year 2000.