had said she sings with her fingers he would have said what he doubtless thought and what is true she plays german songs � some of the familiar songs in the or something of s or s or s or one of a thousand other songs and the playing is like exquisite singing it fills the mind with pictures with persons with scenes and with that unspeakable content which only such music can give to the lovers of music what on earth is it all about said the at the concert and why do people come here the would have asked the same question if he had heard the upon the stump if the fairy who over the cradle should give the the choice of gifts what gift more precious could the young stranger ask than the power of giving a pleasure so pure as that which s playing it is one of her praises that if the choice had been given to her she would i instantly have selected the very power which the good fairy bestowed for in giving the pleasure she does only what she delights to do and would have chosen to do one philosopher speaking to the easy chair of another whose serenity was as undisturbed by events as the by clouds said of himself that he subdued more devils before breakfast every day than his serene brother had encountered in his whole life yet the serene brother s lofty repose was not less admirable because it was a quality of temperament and not a triumph of the will and it is not less the merit of that the happiness she is as involuntary as the fragrance of the what is done without effort seems not to have been taught and it is not easy to fancy at exercises and laboring at scales indeed are trained to sing and even young birds to fly yet the training is but showing them how to give themselves free play to express entire facility we say that an act is done as naturally as a bird sings not less naturally does play you listen and the song which you knew seems to sing itself but enveloped with a richness and fulness of flowing accompaniment which is like the of then with others she plays the great music or or or now an old now a quaint and why not a of it is more than a hint or a although it is not an but when those fingers kindred with s sweep the keys together the listener wonders whether the of the full has caught from it the subtle and exquisite significance of the strain which has poured from those enchanted the piano is called an inadequate instrument perhaps it is until you hear play then by some secret sympathy you find yourself murmuring not so sweetly sang as thou mild pastoral m a s breathing less whispering than thy when in tones worthy of thou chant that song sung by to the banished duke which the winter wind more than for a man to be ungrateful the sex o be told that the lily is not the flower of but of could not be more surprising than to be assured that the sex is not that of the but of the lady of to whom he sang such a suggestion is of course but a merry fancy could any critic however inclined to seriously against the sex of s sister s mother yet this is precisely what has been recently done one and and the sins against good manners of which the sex is guilty he presents a philosophical analysis of the forms of feminine it is the ancient sage again exposing the it is out he details the degrees of offence � in young women in women who are no s longer as girls in nearly all women in women with the social duties then the boundless of opening before him and with a certain zest of scrutiny he treats of the behavior of women in the horse cars at the railway station buying tickets at the post office where the rule is imperative first come first served but where this chief of presses for a of the beneficent rule of equality in her favor still more aspects of rise upon the s view of the sex the shameful or shocking treatment by woman of those whom she holds to be her cries to heaven her heartless of railway staggering under their burdens her of cause this observer of fine and an acute sense of the becoming to lament the of the stool the more general outrage however apparently common to the sex from of to is according to our the spite of women towards each other which into an ecstasy of when woman goes a but our the elder does not permit man to himself by contrast with woman he expressly the declaration of the that man is while woman is not in many men he remarks indifference to and in many women a gentle regard for others which deserves even the sum of the whole matter nevertheless is that the average woman is more of common courtesy than the average man and no wonder the younger for the foolish fondness of man teaches her if man instead of giving her his seat in the railway car and removing his hat in the and in her hat at the theatre insisted upon his legal rights in a bargain and required the railroad company to furnish without the of seats for which it has been paid or if he brought the manager � � to task for allowing one of his customers to steal what he has sold to another � namely a view of the play � the world would tremble on the edge of the of good manners this terrible is a comprehensive accusation of selfishness against the sex but it seems to be 