Mr. Jonas Winning Laurels

Harper's Weekly of Dec. 4th, contaius a flue portrait of and pays a high complinent to Alberto Jonas. In reciting the musicians New York will have tl i is winer it says : "Again comes Alberto Jonas, the Spaniartl, as brilliant and as temperanental a player as heart could wisb." Then again t devotes this paragraph o Ann Arbor's great musician : "Alberto Jonas is of the same age as Gallico - born in Madrid in 1868, and vas a child prodigy as a composer beore the lad was tvvelve. He studied at Jrussels and carried awav honors; and ifter fairly Btarting on a piano-player's irduous career, interrupted itheroically o be a pupil of Rubinstein. There is something of the palm and the pine in in artistic nature so developed and eniched ; and in Jonas to-day Southern varmtli and Northern intellectuality are eculiarly matured. He is a player of lie flrst rank, a serious and noble interreter as a technicist, and Kubinstein rophesied wisely of a future now fast realizing. Spain, France, Eussia, Germany, Austria, and England have hought excellent thoughts and written strong praises of this young Madrileño. Je has been heard rarely in New York, )ut his mark here is made."