Jacket title: The story of English music The evolution of the pianoforte, by T. L. Southgate.--Our English songs, by W. H. Cummings.--The early English viols and their music, by H. Watson.--Madrigals, rounds, catches, glees, and part-songs, by E. M. Lee.--The recorder, flute, fife, and piccolo, by J. Finn.--Music in England in the year 1604, by Sir F. Bridge.--Our dances of bygone days, by A. S. Rose.--Masques and early operas, by A. H. D. Prendergast.--English opera after Purcell, by F. J. Sawyer.--Our cathedral composers and their works, by G. F. Huntley.--The single and double reed instruments, by D. J. Blaiklely.--The water-organ of the ancients and the organ of to-day, by F. W. Galpin.--The regal and its successors: the harmonica, by T. L. Southgate.--The violin family and its music, by W. W. Cobbett.--The brass wind instruments, by J. E. Borland.--Some notes on early printed music, by A. H. Littleton.--Music of the country-side, by Sir E. Clarke