Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-01-14

: talked to him long and earRestlyal, "you hay,
y a.trne feeling,for that noble art, to which I
3 too, belong" he said "Yodd' may have mani
d difficulties too encounter; but never be dis
:, couraged-7you. will snrmount them alt Yot
have had "hindrances; but listen, and
e will tell you what befell me at your age.
! once came, a poor boy like, you, to the creates
a capital in Europe, my heart full of music, but
utterly without. means. My only wealth wal
I my violin 4 left it one day in my poor cham.
! ber, while went ont 10 buy. q. loaf. with my
last coin. When Icame back, my violin wat
gone 1t had been stolen. May God forgive
t me for the crime contemplated in my mad
] despaiF'i irashed To the river; plunged in
but was4saved from the death j sought, and
! saved to- live for better things. Ny friend, "
continued the musician after long silence
during which Hi. face was hidden by his hands
Sin all the trials of your career remember this
and take warning,p ~ ae.,,. -i.sa..A se,-- &
81 wili--Imill'P' cried Reuben much.noved
And, now, after having told you this terri
Bile secret in my life, ii is as well that Eshould
} not reyealmy' neme;' and bssides,ft could do
: you no good, as Set out for Europe to-mor-
row. But should you ever be in Paris, come
. to this address, ,leaYs. this, writing and you
will hear ,of me. .aA,,..' ..''' ., ',,.'t ,,Ft
4 The'gehtlemaR wrote some lines in 4 4 foreign
language, which Reuben could not make out,
though among his musical acquaintance he
+. had gained a httle-khowledge Of both French
. and Italian. IIs then gave vsndrest the adj
-, .
dress, and bade. him, ,adieu,, The young man
j long popdered,over this adventure, and II was
the, final pointwhch made him 'reiinqGfsh a
I trade 50 nnbieasiig'to him for the practice of
his beloved att. ,s..,.s ...... n.s..a,. y.
II IT is o mistake to suppose that the profess
sion Of musc-is an easy careless life, to which
'1'any one may turn who has distaste for more
solid pursuits. In no calling is intellectual
activity and arduous study more imperatively
required. He who would attain to even mod
crate eminence in it, must devote years of daily
patient toll to dry and uninteresting branches
of study poet may be one by nature: il is
utterly impossible that musician can be great
without as deep science as ever puzzled a
mathematical brain. He must work-work-
every inch of his way; must dig the founda-
tion, and enrich the soil, before he can form
our young ex-barber of New York: he studied
by science what he had before learned through
his naturafgenius, and rose slowly and grad
ually in his profession. Sometimes his slight
and ordinary appearance, which mado him
look more boyish than he really was-his
/ uua int old aho III
plicity and Quaker-like peculiarly in his dress
and manner, aroused tho ridicule Of his COM
panions, who followed music more for show
than through real genius and love of the art,
but the story Of his early perseverance always
| disarmed them; and it was a common saying,
with reference to young Fandrest, that he who
could make a violin, would surely learn to
play it.
BY degrees the young violinist rose into
note, and became received into society where
he could hardly have dreamed that he should
ever set his foot BUTT is happy popularity
in the domestic manners Of the new world
that real talent ever finds its way, and takes
| its own rank in society. Thus many rich
citizea was pleased TO welcome to his house
Mr.. Vandrest, the young and unassuming mu-
sician, whose gentle manners and acknowledged
talent were equally priced. The barbers ap-
prentice Of New York was utterly forgotten, or
only thought of as proof of now much mans
| fortune lies in his own hands, If he will only
| try.
| In one of'those elegant reunions which were
established when worthy Brother Jonathan
was first beginning to show his soul and mind
when Bryant's songs, and Allston's pictures,
and Channing's lectures, first gave evidence of
transatlantic genius--vandrest again heard
the name which had never utterly gone from
his memory through all his yicssitudes-C
Dacres. He turned round, and saw the altered
likeless of tho girl who had held the water to
his lips on the night Of the BALL She had
not the filintest memory of hini--how could 1t
be so? Light and darkness were not more
different than the pleasing, intellectual, gen.
tleman-lille man who was introduced to her,
and the pale, angular ill-clad boy whom she
had pitied and aided. Sometimes yandrsst
thought he would remind her of the crcum-
stance but then vague feeling of sensitive
ness and shame, not entirely the result of the
memory of those poverty-strickea days, pre-
vented him. He went home, and again his
old violin might have heard breathed over ii
the name of Cora Dacres; but this time not in
boyish enthusiasm for whatever was pleasing
and beautiful, but in the first strong, all-ab-
sorbing love ofmanhood, awakened in nature
which was every way calculated to receive and
retain that sentiment in its highest, purest, and
most enduring character.
Reuben Vandrest (hate him not, dear rea-
der, for having so unherolike a name will
engage that, if Cora loved him, she thought it
most beautiful; and so would you, if any one
dear to you bore the same:) well, Reuben Van
drest, who had hitherto cared for nothing on
earth but his violin, soon learned TO regard
Miss Dacres with the enthusiastic attach
ment of an earnest and upright nature; for
with all the allurements of musical career,
Reuben continued as supplemented and guile
less in character as the primitive sect from
which he sprung. And Cora was worthy TO
inspire the love of such man whether she
returned it or not, Reuben did not consider
he was too utterly absorbed in the new delight
of loving and Of loving her, to think of asking
himself the question, He visited at her house,
and became a fayorite with her father-a
would-be amateur, who took pleasure in filling
| his drawinq-r rooms with musicians and treat