Occasional Notes [excerpt]

     The memorial services held at Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and elsewhere, on the 19th ult., the day of Mr. McKinley’s funeral, are an indication of the deep sympathy felt by the entire English nation in the loss which our kith and kin in America have sustained in the cruel death of their distinguished President. The music at the services was deeply impressive, and the President’s favourite hymn, ‘Nearer, my God, to Thee’ (to which we make special reference in our Church and Organ Music column, p. 672), has been very generally sung at these and recent Sunday services in all parts of this country. At the Queen’s Hall Promenade Concerts, Sullivan’s In Memoriam Overture was fittingly played as a mark of sympathetic respect to the late President and the people whom he so ably led.