Rushden Composer—A new musical monologue entitled "Out at Mons", has just been issued by Messrs Reynolds and Co., the well-known music publishers, and a copy of the number has been placed in our hands for review. We find it if special interest, not only by reason of its undoubted merit from a literary and musical standpoint, but also by the fact that three people well-known in Rushden are directly concerned in its issue. The author of the libretto is Mr. Warren Hastings, formerly a resident of Rushden, and his verse, which shows decided originality of style, is a vivid pen picture of the heroic self-sacrifice of a simple "Tommy" who gave his all in one of the first great struggles of the present titanic conflict. The concluding verse reaches right home as it tells of the sufferings and equal sacrifice of the "Little pale-faced woman over here". Mr. Herberte Jordan, the popular conductor of the Royal Theatre orchestra, Rushden, is the composer of a striking musical accompaniment which, to a marked degree, enhances the poignancy of the story so ably told in the author’s verses. Mr. Jordan’s appropriate music thrills home to the senses, and makes the tragedy felt. We are pleased to report that the number has been taken up, and is being worked by Miss Clara Hubbard, the popular London society entertainer, who is so well-known and who has achieved so great a measure of popularity in Rushden in connection with Mr. Bernard Tomkins’s concerts. We venture to predict that the success of Messrs. Hastings and Jordan’s production is more than assured, since it is being used by so accomplished an exponent of the histrionic art as is Miss Hubbard. Her photograph forms a charming frontispiece to the monologue, copies of which may be obtained from Whiting’s Music Stores, High-street, Rushden.