Progress, enlightened movement, new methods, a new outlook, in a word—growth, has been going on steadily in our public schools for many years past, and has been especially insistent in some schools, I think, during the last fifteen or twenty years. Music has not been left behind in this forward movement. Some people seem to think and talk as if it had. Far from it. As a fact, the place that music holds in most public schools, the amount of time given to it by boys, the importance attached to it by almost everyone connected with our schools, is most striking. I think some people would be really astonished if they were to look through the programmes of concerts given at some of our schools, and they would be still more astonished if they were to go and hear the performances. I am sure they would be impressed with the high standard, earnestness and ability they would encounter.