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226 THE BRITISH MINSTREL; AND

SINCE FIRST I SAW YOUR FACE.


MADRIGAL FOR FOUR VOICES. Ford, IG20.
Andante.

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The sun, whose beams most glorious are, Where beauty moves, and wit delights,
Rejecteth no beholder And signs of kindness bind me.
And your sweet beauty past compare. There, O there, where'er, where'er 1 go,
Makes my poor eyes the bolder. I leave my heart behind me.

DEVOTION TO MUSIC. " Record of the Musical Union," a society recently


organised in London, by Mr. J. Ella, for the prac-
One of the best educated musicians of our ac-
quaintance owes his distinguished position in life tice of chamber music]
to the accident of being invited to hear a quartet.
The story is agreeably enough told, in a letter once
addressed to us by the hero, the brother-in-law of AN ERA IN MUSIC !

the late Baillot. "The vicissitudes of my family " We have waited until the very
moment, and last
forced me to seek employment in a commercial we
what way to speak of this
yet scarcely know in
establishment in the vicinity of Paris, where I was musical prodigy this wonder of the century the
treated with much kindness by my employer, and beautiful, bewitching, thrilling Signora Anaide
allowed to prosecute my practice on the violin as Castellan Giampietro. She is the very embodi-

an amateur. After receiving a lesson, as usual, ment the personification of that exquisite har-
from my master, the celebrated Baillot, the latter, mony which glows and thrills in the deep heart <if
seeing that I was passionately fond of music, in- nature; and which, as Carlyle so rapturously ex-
vited me to one of his quartet parties. On asking presses it, is nature, and beauty, and truth, and the
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permission of my employer to enjoy so great a treat, inmost soul of all things lovely.' ffer very name
I was peremptorily refused. Anticipating the fatal modulates itself into a liquid cadence her rounded,
consequences ol disobedience, I could not, however, graceful form is a ripe melody her beautiful face is
resist the temptation to hear the famed quartet a rare and beautiful burst of 7nany mingling hai-mo-
party of my master, and at all risks I ventured to nies ; while her voice!
gratify my anxious wish.
what shall we say of it?
The next morning I was The warble of a bird, as she greets the first warm

dismissed, and thrown upon the wide world with- rain of spring, hid among the bursting buds and
out a home, or an employment. The tide of fortune balmy branches the voice of summer winds, as
happily socm turned in my favour; the cause of my they whisper and sign on the bosom of the starry
dismissal having excited the sympathy of Baillot, lakelet, where the wild rose is born
he at once admitted me a pupil of the Conservatoire,
the clear music
of foam-bells, breaking beneath the piercing eye of
and ever afterwards proved to me a most sincere morning, whose music is listened to by the heart
and devoted friend." Some of our professional
and not the ear the softest, roundest tone of the
readers will probably recognize in this anecdote flute, when
breathed upon by most exquisite lips
our amiable friend Guynemer, one of the recent full of love and lavish of the grace of |)erfect art
candidates for the Edinburgh professorship. Had all these, concentrating their several beauties and
the members of the senate of the Edinburgh uni- fascinations, would still give you but a most faint
versity appointed Mr. Guynemer to fill the profes- and imperfect image of that wild and delici(ms
sor's chair, they would have found him a thorough voice. The tones of beatific spirits, which we think
practical and theoretical musician, an elegant we hear in dreams, can alone express a type of this
scholar, and a polished gen tleman. wonderful woman's voice, which seems to well up
[We take the foregoing anecdote from the from her heart into her little throbbing and melting

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