Though not one of that class of musicians about whom the public talks with feverish excitement, and though his ways and words were not the object of journalistic curiosity, Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley was a man of wide influence, and one whose character and labours deserve careful study. He was distinctively a representative man, and in furthering the objects he had in view in life he was uniformly consistent, as indeed every man must be who conscientiously draws up a scheme of work founded on a sense of duty, and turns neither to the right nor left while pursuing it. Whether he chose the best scheme of life or not, we shall by-and-bye try to discover; but the simplicity of his mind, the purity of his motives, the calm persistence with which he aimed at his object, and his immense self-sacrifice in securing it, seem to point more to the chivalrous knight of a bygone age than to the modern worldly artist, who rapidly faces about this way or that way, but who, somehow or other, is always found treading the path which leads to the best market for his wares.