Observe, too, that the musical fore-season of 1899-1900 is already over. I have not spoken above of those artists who have made it active since October. Mr. Vladimir de Pachmann, that interpreter-in-chief of Chopin—and polished perverter of Beethoven and Schumann—has been scintillating to crowded audiences in this city, and in a dozen other places, and found to be as brilliant a virtuoso as ever, and perhaps a shade less simian in his personality.