The Flower Queen; or the Coronation of the Rose. A Cantata in Two Parts, for the use of Singing Classes in Academies, Female Seminaries & High Schools, Adapted Especially for Concerts, Anniversaries, or other Festive Occasions, and also for the Social Circle., By Geo. F. Root, Prof. of Music in Rutger's Female Institute, Abbott's Collegiate Institution, Spingler Institute, Institution for the Blind, Union Theological Seminary; Editor of Academy Vocalist, Etc.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street, 1880. Boards. Very good. [MUSIC]. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street, and New York: C.H. Ditson & Co. 711 Broadway.
24mo oblong (5 5/8" x 8 ¾"); 93pp + [1]pp Index and 8pp Supplement; printed green boards, brown cloth shelf-back; eps publisher's ads; some light marginalia in pencil; light age-toning of paper; very good. Preceded by "Directions" for the staging, and followed by the "Argument" summarizing the storyline. "The flowers meet in a secluded dell in the forest, to show their Queen. A Person discounted with the world, seeks, in the same place, retirement from its cares and disappointments. The Flowers tell of love and duty; and the Recluse-learning that, to fill well the station allotted by Providence, is to be happy-resolves to return again to usefulness and contentment amount his fellow creatures.".