Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-11


perfect in the minutest details Of muscular ac-
ton. This is, | believe, the first equestrian
statue of Washington ordered in this country,
and from present Appearances, 1t wlll take
high rank among our works Of Art.
DO you suppose ] am going to let you off
without SAYING a word about music Not /.
On this subject | am like a person who wish
es to talk a great deal, but is conscious that
he is slightly intoxicated, and therefore may
talk too much. But just let me tell you, now
ever public attractions may crowd upon you
in Boston, and however much you may de-
light in The d%ivinely sweet tones of Sivori's
violin, and his wonderful artistic skill in play
ing upon it, you must still keep a place in
your souls for Herr or rather lie will quietly
tuhe a place, whether you reserve It for him
or not. No one. who has the least pleasure
in music. can avoid being captivated by the
beauty of his style. 1t is clear and brilliant
as the rays Of Sirius; delicate and ETHEREAL
as the breath Of flowers. BY the NINE Mu-
SEES, the man plays like a spirit!
| was sad when | went TO the concert, but
the graceful music touched my soul with fairy
wand, and il rose up h~uoyant and wingcd.-
Both his music, and his style of playing, are
the expression Of highly polished society, the
musical utterance of drawing-rOom elegance
yet they charm me, simple %recluse as | am.
The papers have generally been wise enough
TO institute no comparison between him and
De Meyer. There is no use or fitness in COM
pairing tbings so entirely unlike. One might
as we'll discuss the relative merits CT a lien
and a gazelle.
The piano, which is of Hers own manu-
facture, has remarkable sweetness and delica-
cy of tone, and yields TO the slightest con
celvable touch. As | saw the artists fingers
glide over the floating keys, | thought Of Ten
nyson's description Of tho maiden;
IBID never creature pass,
So Slightly, unsteady made,
SO light upon the grass.
SO fleety did she stir,
The flowers she touched on, dipt and rose
And turned TO look at her."
in ethereal beauty Of tone this instrument
constantly reminded me of the delightful
Harmonic Piano, which MIR. Chicherinp
made for Edward l.. Walker. If | live 10
be a hundred years old, the recollection of
the first time | ever heard his Oberon Fanta-
STA, on that piano, will remain with me like
the memory of graceful fountains in the
clear, bright moonlight. You see | am in
toXicated so no more about that.
There is a poetic and unpoetic way of
viewing all subjects. Who but Emerson,
for instance, would recognize in common
street swearing, - the popular recognition of
the Inhiie {" | heard a very practical gem
tleman, the other day, minutely calculating
how many dollars, he had expended, during
tho last three years. TO see and hear all the
foreign celebrities. 1t did not seem 10 pre-
sent Itself many other light than so much Ia
ZEN dtcoy from the cuuulry. He seemed TO
forget that what we received Of pleasure, i'm
provement, and the refining Influences Of
cultivated taste, was far superior to money in
value. To me there is something beautiful
in the fact that while we send Europe our
superior machines and tools, she sends gifted
MINISTRIES to us, to impart her superior culti-
vation in Art. Their mission is to transfuse
music through all social gradations, as the
wandering troubadours Of old did history and
Poetry. But the ancient mission embraced
only families and clans; while the modern
one, fluid and expansive as the ART which
prompts it, intertwinos the nations. There
Is so much 10 divide the great human family,
that we cannot be too grateful for whatever
assimilaIes and unitos. L.. NJ. G.
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