Somethings About Music

Inore is music in all things if men had e;irs.- I'.yron. Music, is Jio medicine oí the breaking heart. - Sir. A. Kent. Let me have music dying and I seek no more delight.- Keat-s. TliO soul of art best loved when love is by.- llev. J. B. Brown. Music "tt-ashes away from the soul the dust oí every-day lli'e.- Auerbach. Music is the child of prayer, the oompauioii of religión.- (hiiteauln-iand. Sweetest imelodies are tho.se that are by distance made more sweet.- Wordsworth. Music is the only sensual catión which mankind may Indulge in to exee.-s without injury to their moral or religious íeelings.- Addison. The man who hath no music in his í soul, but is n?t moved with conoord oí sweet Boundf-, is iit for treasoD, stratngems and spoils.- Shakespeare. The nieauing oí' song goes deep. AVho is tbere that, in logioal words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, whlch leads us to the edge of the infinite, and Íets us for moments gaze into that.- Carlyle. Music is the mediator bet"veen the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that whieh it creates through music, yet it is bLessed in this creatlon which like every creation of art, is mightier than the artlst.- Beethoven. Under the infduence of music we afe alll deluded in some way. AVe imagine that the performers must dweil in the regions to whi-h tliey lift their hearers, We are reluctant to admit that a man may blow the most soulam 'mating strains from his fcrumpet amd yet le a coward : or melt au audieooe to tears with his violin, fin-J