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casts of other nations, as the records of its police will testify: Like Rome, which, in the language of Tacitus, was the common asylum which received and protected "whatever was impure, whatever was atrocious."

them and observe how flat they were on the breast; | Paris has another striking disadvantage, in being they have nothing more there,' said he, ‘than I the resort of all that is most eminently profligate have upon the back of my hand.' I have since among the inhabitants of the other parts of the thought there might be some truth in his observa-kingdom, and the hiding-place of many of the outtion, and that, possibly nature finding they made no use of bubbies, has left off giving them any. Yet, since Rousseau pleaded with admirable eloquence for the rights of children to their mother's milk, the mode has changed a little; and some ladies of quality now suckle their infants, and find milk enough. May the mode descend to the lower ranks, till it becomes no longer the custom to pack their infants away, as soon as born, to the enfans trouvés, with the careless observation, that the King is better able to maintain them. I am credibly informed that nine-tenths of them die there pretty soon, which is said to be a great relief to the institution, whose funds would not otherwise be sufficient to bring up the remainder.' He adds: If parents did not immediately send their infants out of their sight, they would in a few days begin to love them, and thence be spurred to greater industry for their maintenance.'

If republican government rests for its support on virtue, or to speak more definitely, on mutual regard and mutual respect for right; if a man loves his country and reveres its institutions, as I believe he does, because they are connected with the objects of his domestic affections; if he is willing to make any sacrifice for them, because on their safety depends that of objects dearer to him than life; because under his paternal roof or his own, sentiments have been matured which cling to the country connected with them, and endure with his existence;-then indeed was the attempt to maintain a government of equal rights in France, so long as Paris was the controlling power, utterly hopeless. It would have been as easy to build a palace on a fathomless quicksand. The inhabitants of the country, who were probably as simple

I have before me a table constituting part of a Report of the Minister of the Home Department, on the state of the City of Paris, published in the Quarterly Review of September 1826, which pre-in their manners, and as affectionate in their chasents the following results, to use the language of racter as the people of other nations; with more the reviewer: "From the year 1815 to the year suavity of manner than belongs to any other peo1824-both inclusively, and deducting 1817-the ple, fought the battles, and bore the standards of number of children born in Paris was 225,259, of France victorious over almost all Europe. But whom 82,426 were illegitimate; that is to say, that their political hopes, as far as they rested on reduring the last ten years, thirty-six per cent., or publican liberty, were baseless from the first. A more than one-third of the new annual population people may fail in establishing or maintaining free of Paris was born out of wedlock. The returns government from the want of knowledge. They of the children deserted by their parents, dated must fail, where the social principle, the life's blood only from 1818, and include but seven years. of political society, is corrupted or destroyed. During that period 180,189 children were born, of whom 54,554 were illegitimate, and 49,503—an almost equal number-were deserted by their parents; that is to say, that during this period, 30 hundredths of the new annual population born in Paris were illegitimate; and 27 hundredths, or more than one-fourth, were deserted by their parents.”* It will be quite evident from the foregoing statements, to which many others of similar character might be added if necessary, that conjugal and paternal love have a very feeble existence in the capital of France. And it will scarcely be doubted, that the state of these all-important ties must have a very sensible effect on the character of its popu

lation.

* The authority is very high for the following facts related to the author by an eminent French gentleman now dead. In the year 1805, there was a man resident in the Fauxbourg St. Germain at Paris, who was rewarded by the Government for his uncommon virtue. It was asked what

does that virtue consist of? He has reared and educated

Men must not only be readily excited by whatever deeply interests their fellows, but they must have affection enough for them to aid in rendering assistance, where that is necessary: otherwise, there is no agent but fear, by which they can be governed. The sword and the bayonet must come in to supply the defect arising from their disregard of each other, or society will prey upon its own vitals, until it is destroyed.

The feelings that prompt to virtuous deeds, require cultivation for healthy growth, like the esculents important for human subsistence, which would otherwise be stifled by weeds; and the fostering hand of Religion is all-important to them. Bat they have the unspeakable advantage of generating sensibility by their exercise. They require no increased doses of exciting agents. A man who has saved an empire, can take pleasure in affording assistance to the humblest child of humanity. The passions which end in self, are differently constituted. They grow like the spontaneous product of

eight of his own children at his own expense. And is that so remarkable an act of virtue? Yes, was the reply, in so a rank soil, without culture; and present a tempting corrupt a city as this! aspect to the eye of inexperience. But they are

subject to the law of exhaustion, and constantly exemplified in many cases at Paris during the redemand stronger doses to satisfy their cravings. | volution-Madame Roland's is one of the most reAmbition, that has controlled the world, is misera-markable. The bystanders at her trial exclaimble, when consigned to a small territory-as Bona-ing-"What sense, what wit, what courage! What parte in Elba. Virtue is happier in private life, than a magnificent spectacle it will be to behold; such a at the head of a nation-as Washington on his farm. woman upon the scaffold!" The thirst of knowledge and the love of virtue, 11. That man can become so depraved as to by being susceptible of continued exertions under commit murder with his own hands, and without the agency of diminishing excitements, by gene- the least provocation from the love of blood; the rating additional sensibility in every operation, September massacres are examples. show that the fountains of their nourishment are 12. A capacity of any people for self-governinexhaustible, although the stream orginally might|ment, depends on the state of the social principle, have appeared feeble. They thus bear evidence combined with intelligence. that they belong to the immortal part of man, whilst his exhaustible and earthly attributes are perishable; and that they

When the trembling spirit wings her flight,
Pour round her path a stream of living light,
And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest
Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest!

We have endeavored to show

13. The state of the social principle, may be safely inferred from the condition of the affections of domestic life; the regards of husbands and wives to each other reciprocally; and the affections of parents and children.

The inference from the foregoing is, that, if the good men who were concerned in bringing about the French Revolution, had understood the charac

1. That there is a principle in man, which goadster of the people among whom they were acting, him constantly to the search of something to in

terest him.

2. That he is so constituted by nature, as to be excited by the appearance in other animals of any emotions to which he is himself subject.

3. This excitement is of a pleasing nature, and invites to repetition.

4. That it is combined in undepraved natures with a feeling of sympathy for the object of it, if it stands toward us in any relation capable of generating kindness.

5. This sympathy founded on love, prompts us to efforts for relief,-most of the strong emotions plaeing their subjects in a state of more or less distress.

6. This combination of excited attention, with sympathy or love, constitutes the social principlewhich is the cement of society. Without the first portion of it, we should pass the afflictions of others without observation. Without the second, we should be only amused with the scene, and make no efforts for relief. In such a state of things, man being dependent on his fellows, and unable to live in an insulated state, would perish. 7. That man towards animals of certain kinds, as those of the forest, actually feels no love, and pursues them to destruction for his amusement.

8. If his feelings could be rendered as cold towards his own species, he would take the same pleasure in hunting them.

9. In certain states of society where vicious habits have weakened or destroyed his love for his species, its blood and slaughter have been made subjects of public amusement,-as in the case of gladiators among the Romans.

10. That the public execution of persons, or their death by violent means where they do not resist, is an exciting spectacle, and a source of pleasure to those destitute of sympathy, as was

they would have most religiously abstained from the attempt, and thereby probably saved France and the world from sufferings, perhaps unparalleled in history during even the most barbarous ages.

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Arise, as in that elder time,

Warm, energetic, chaste, sublime!"

Had our poet lived a hundred years later, he might not have felt so much the necessity of such an invocation. Whether at his call or not, the maiden has not altogether denied us her visits, nor laid her lyre aside. Her presence the "daughters of earth" have struck the chord, responhas been hailed, and at the touchings of her quivering strings sive to the "sphere-descended." Music has confessedly made as much progress, within the last century, as any other of the arts; and the increased attention which is now tific manner, is a matter of sincere rejoicing to every one so assiduously bestowed upon it, and that too, in a scienwho is alive to the social and moral improvement of his race. Reflecting on the uses for which Music is designed, and on the power which it possesses to affect and move the heart, has induced the writer to group together some of the thoughts which have passed through his mind at distant and scattered intervals.

It is a matter of rejoicing that there is so much good music in our country; but still, we must confess that there is much of what is called Music, which is but a desecration of the name; and for our own part, we would rather, on many occasions, when we have been called to listen to such noises, be left to ourselves, to muse on some "vision of a Mrs. Woods, and which leaves its echo in the heart long, lovely sound," such as we have heard from a Russel or a long after the singer has disappeared, than to be thus tortured. But a truce to fault-finding. It was not for this

we took up our quill-The art is but young with us, and we trust it will continue to improve, until, through our own groves, and upon our own waves, shall float strains sweet as those which charmed the shadowy retreats of Arcadia, or died away upon the slumbering waters of Ægea.

From harmony, from Heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began.
When nature underneath a heap

Of jarring atoms lay,

And could not heave her head!
The tuneful voice was heard from high,
Arise! ye more than dead!

Then hot and cold, and moist and dry,
In order to their stations leap,
And Music's power obey.

From harmony, from Heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began;

From harmony, to harmony,

Through all the compass of the notes it ran,

The diapason closing full in man.

If it was all a fable that the Harp of Orpheus, by its magic tones, stayed the rushing of the stream, bent the mountain oak, or soothed into subdued softness the raging fierceness of the wildest beast of the forest; it is not a fable, that Music hath had power to stay the rushing tide of human passion, bow the haughtiness of the most stubborn heart, and lull into gentleness and peace the warring tumults of the most infuriated bosom. If it be a fable, that the walls of Thebes rose into beauty and strength, at the breathing notes of the Lyre of Amphion; it is not a fable, that society has, in all ages, had the strongest bulwarks of Music then, is as old as the universe: it is the gift of a its security and happiness erected by the spirit of song. beneficent Creator; it has been deep and unceasing as the It is indebted, largely indebted, to Music for the formation of everlasting murmuring of the mighty ocean; and it will conthat contented spirit, that strong cord of social sympathy, tinue to be unceasing, as long as the pure spirit of the and that ardent love of country, which ever prove a more perfect burns around the Throne of the Eternal; or a single potent safeguard to the liberty and perpetuity of nations, heart exists, to swell with holy adoration, in contemplating than gates of brass, than adamantine walls, or the serried the unfathomable love of his Co-Eternal Son; and the power ranks of mercenary troops. True, an external foe may jeop-to make Music, and the power to apprehend it when made. ardize a nation's political existence; but the same spirit was bestowed upon man for purposes of the highest bapwhich acts as a preservative principle at home, lifts up and piness and usefulness: and however prostituted it may nerves a thousand arms to repel foreign aggression. have been by an unholy alliance with profane and laciIt has been a matter of inquiry-how, when, and where vious verse; however degraded from its pure intentions, did Music derive its origin? When was the time, when it by a union with histrionic exhibitions of the basest chamight be said that the "sweet harmony of sound" first cap-racter, its design is, to elevate, refine, and humanize the tivated the enwrapt and astonished listener? Classic le- heart; nay, more, to move it to piety, and thus lift it up to gends tell us, that a man once walking upon the sea-beach God. The fact that it has been used in all ages by the voaccidentally disturbed with his foot the shell of a dead taries of pleasure, and used with such tremendous influence tortoise, and that the sound emitted by the vibrating ten- by unholy men for unholy purposes, is the strongest evidons, which had become dry, and thus strung like the strings dence, that it was designed as a powerful auxiliary in eleof a harp, gave him the idea of Music. Others say, that vating and blessing the race. Who doubts, that the power the notion of Music was derived from the breathing of the of Eloquence was designed as a mighty engine to move wind among the rustling water-rushes of the Nile. Or men to proper action? And yet, Eloquence has stirred up again, that as "the groves were God's first temples," so the nations to civil tumult, and deluged whole countries in warbling of their feathered inhabitants, taught him to wor- fraternal blood. Who doubts, that the gifts of Poesy and ship his Creator in the language of praise. However these Fancy were designed for useful ends? And yet the poetry ideas may have satisfied a Grecian, an Egyptain, or a poet's of Byron, and the fatal fascination of Bulwer have cormind, we look to a higher origin, and ask not when it first rupted thousands, and doubtless will ruin thousands of imbegan. We regard it as heaven-born. Intuition makes us mortal spirits. Who doubts, that the power of the press was feel that it was the breath of inspiration, or the aspiration, designed as a lever to raise the world to a higher moral atof the first created spirit; and from that moment Heaven has mosphere? And yet the press, desecrated to wicked ends, been full of song--From the very instant that our own world has sent forth its torrents of libellous filth and falsehood; so was flung into being, when chaos first gave place to order, that in a land like ours, it makes the cheek of every Ameriat that very instant the morning stars sang together, and can blush for the honor of his country. The fact is thisall the sons-the angels of God, shouted for joy. Through the use of any particular instrumentality, powerfully effecall time, nature has kept up the harmonious sound. Crea- tive in promoting immoral ends, instead of meeting with tion is full of Music-

"There's Music in the sighing of a reed;
There's Music in the falling of a rill;
There's Music in all things, if men had ears:
The earth is but an echo of the spheres."

instant reprobation from good men, should awaken the inquiry, whether the same instrumentality might not be converted to the accomplishment of high moral purposes. Music is adapted, and if adapted, is designed to promote noble and salutary ends. This would seem to be evilent from the fact, that the propensity to make and appreciate Yes, an echo of the spheres! Byron was not the first to musical sounds is as deeply seated in the human constituallude to the Music of the Heavenly bodies. As early as tion, as any other. And why thus implanted, if not for the time of Pythagoras, the doctrine was advanced to its benevolent purposes on the part of the Creator? There most beautiful perfection. That man of giant mind, who is a power in sound, which, partly from nature, and partly first conceived the present theory of the Heavens, was the from habit and association, makes such pathetic impres first, as far as we know, to start the sublime poeticism-sions on the fancy as to delight even the wild barbarian." "Music of the spheres"-so often seized upon by the verse-It was a forcible remark of Blair's, that man by nature was makers of all after-times. He supposed that the myriads a musician; and it is no unmeditated assertion to say, that of worlds that circle through the Heavens, by striking upon the elastic ether, produced sounds, and that these sounds varied with the size, velocity and relative position of the bodies themselves, and that as these motions were perfect, the most perfect harmony-"attuned to God's own ear"was the result. Hence Dryden's beautiful allusion to the Creation, when, as we said before, Music first began:

there never was an age when it did not receive the attestion of man. And it may moreover be a curious reflection to any, who may not before have noticed the fact; that it was during the life-time of Adanı, the primogenitor of ser race,-that Jubal, "the father of all such as played on the harp and the organ," carried on his profession-the first professor of music living in the society of our first pareud'

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It is well known too, that no class of men figured more | gifted the voice with softest melody, and gave man skill to largely in the early history of every nation, than their bards teach dead instruments to utter sounds, sweet almost as and musicians. The natural taste for this art is seen also Angels use, and attuned the ear to that delicate sense of in the absorbed and'delighted attention of the infant, long harmony necessary to its adequate appreciation, gave it before it can comprehend speech; and which instinctively to him for the dignifying purposes of praise and thanksprompts the mother to soothe her child to rest by her simple giving. But, as it regards things strictly secular, it is an cradle-Hymn-simple, but sweet as simple, and which agent of incalculable power. It is invoked on almost all never loses its charms even in after-life; but mellowed by occasions. The social and the family circles are indebted every numbering year, comes over the care-worn heart of to it for many of their loveliest enchantments; and as an manhood, like the Music of Ossian-" pleasant but mournful elevator of the social sympathies, it has well been said that to the soul." It is seen also in the young group, that col- Music is the food of Love." It is called in by most of lects around every strolling player who infests our streets; our philanthropic and political combinations: We have our nay, the fact that every trifling exhibition must be attended Missionary Anthems, our Temperance Odes, innumerable with music, even if it be ground out by the revolving crank Anniversary Hymns; and some of our readers will be surof some German instrument, imposingly styled an organ, prized, when it is stated that during the late political canproves, that there is a something in the human breast, de- vass, upwards of fifty-perhaps we should say a hundredmanding the harmony of sound; and it should be the work party songs of various characters and descriptions, were of the philanthropist, to seize upon this inborn passion, prepared and scattered among the people. It may be said, and so control and direct its movements, as to make the that it is the sentiment of these songs and hymns, and not whole race happier, and more dignified as moral beings. the notes, that enlisted the heart and the feelings. But this is a mistaken idea. Why then weave the sentiment

If we may believe the ancients, Music was in use long before the invention of letters, and was used for the high-into verse, and send it out associated with some popular est purposes in influencing the characters of mankind. If their accounts be true, Orpheus, Apollo and Amphion were the tamers of mankind, the inventors of civil jurisprudence and domestic order. Minos sang to the lyre the laws he gave to Crete, and Thales, by his inimitable strains, prepared the minds of the Spartans to receive the inflexible code of Lycurgus, his friend and associate. It was the harp, which civilized the rude and savage when taken in war; that reclaimed the vicious; that softened the manners of the austere; that dispelled brooding melancholy from the mind; and more, that drove the spirit of madness from the infuriated maniac. Doubtless, much that we receive from this source is the language of exaggeration; but after allow-influenced, and the passions aroused, Music has a talising every thing that is necessary on this ground, we are forced to the conclusion, that in the ruder days of society, Music exerted an influence which at the present time is utterly inconceivable; for, it must be remembered, that as man recedes from the simplicity characteristic of society in its infant state, and becomes more perfect in philosophy and arts, and with it more cramped by the rigid spirit of utilitarianism, he becomes less the creature of feeling; and instead of yielding altogether to those refining influences which have a tendency to improve the heart, he must be approached through the medium of his understanding, or the more selfish principles of his nature. But the history of modern times, more moderate indeed, furnishes us with no contrary testimony with regard to its influence; and if I were met by a skeptic on the power of Music-and I pray I never may, remembering what the Poet hath said with regard to "the man, that hath no music in his soul;" for, it is almost an adage with us,

air? Why not appeal to popular feeling in plain, plodding prose, and in the ordinary tones of daily business? Ah! he is but a poor philosopher of human nature, who, after witnessing one of our political meetings, and hearing the boisterous chorus of one of these popular songs; and seeing the spirit of enthusiasm mount higher and higher at every repetition; who can go away, and say that this enthusiasm was the creation of the orator of the evening. No; it is the sentiment carried home to the heart, by means of Music. Separate them; and the former becomes passionless. You may enlighten the understanding, but the feelings may slumber. Men have learned, that where the heart is to be

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"The motions of his soul are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus ;
"Let no such man be trusted"—

manic power; it is the " open sesame" of the heart's door. It was a knowledge of this fact, that led one of the most enlightened statesmen of Europe to say, "Let me but make the ballads of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." Give me the power that controls the affections-let me keep the avenues to the heart, and I care not for your profoundest reasonings, even though it be armed with the "omnipotence of the law."

Music, thus allied to verse, (and it is argued that they should never be unallied; for, Music and Poetry are twin sisters of the same parent-Passion); we say Music, thus allied, has a grand influence, by the power of association in cherishing an ardent love of country. The Music of our country, is the Music we drink in with the lullaby of the oradle. Our national songs are the songs we sing in our boyhood; and thus, early graven on our hearts, are never obliterated; and when called up in riper years, sometimes awaken emotions in the soul too intense for words. Oh! I have seen tear chasing tear, down the furrowed cheek of the aged wanderer, as he listened to the song he used to hear beneath the shadow of his early home. I have seen the blood of fire leap to the brow of the white-haired veteran, at the sound of the patriotic strain, which maddened him, in youth, upon the field of battle. And is not every one familiar with instances of a similar kind? Go to any man, who is an exile from his native home; touch, within his hearing, the notes of some strain which was familiar to

But, if I were met by such an one, I would say, point out a single instance in which men wish to enlist the feelings of their fellows in any enterprize whatever, and do not subsidize the power of Music, and I myself will become a skeptic. In the worship of the house of God, it is a most powerful auxiliary to influence the heart of the worshipper. his ear in youth, e'er he left his father-land--If he is not It soothes the feelings, calls in the thoughts from their unhallowed wanderings, and elevates the soul to a devotional frame. Who is there that has not, at times, had his soul heated to a glow of elevated fervor, by the solemn grandeur and organ-peal of some lofty Anthem? Who is there who has not, more than once, had his spirit melted into deep contrition by the touching pathos of some penitential bymn? It is here that Music fulfils its sacred design; for, He who

dead to every sympathy of a generous nature, nature will gush forth. Visions, beautiful as the holy dreams of an infant, will float before his entranced senses-a mother's smile, a father's kindness, the straw-thatched cottage, the village-school, the green play-ground, the brook with its grassy banks, aye, and even "the old oaken bucket that hung by the well,"-all, all will come up, gilded with the tints of early joys; and will spread before the mind's gaze,

a scene, lovelier far than painter's pencil hath ever imaged after what has been already said, may seem almost superforth. What Irishman can hear his native song, and not erogatory. But this is peculiarly the province of Mulove the shamrock and the harp of his own green isle? sic; and the facts which illustrate it, are interwoven with What Englishman can hear the sound of "Rule Britannia ;" the annals of almost every people; but in no part more than or what Frenchman, that of the Marseilles Hymn, and not in the history of their battles. Martial music has ever been feel his heart beat quick? Or, what American can hear his a stimulus to the soldier in the hour of conflict; impelling own national air, homely in itself, but beautiful and power- him onward in the furious fray, and nerving his soul to high ful in its associated character, and not feel his soul touched exploits. Even the untutored Indian feels its power; and as with the electric spark? True, it has nothing of gran- when he combats with his foe, he stirs his soul to deeds of deur about it; true, it was the invention of the ridicule of prowess, by the terrific yell of his war-song; rude indeed it an enemy; but our fathers consecrated it to Freedom; and it may be, but it is in truth, the bold and nervous gushings of is now holy--it will be cherished by their children as a his untamed and untamable spirit. jewel of bright worth,--and its strains will kindle in our breasts a flame of patriotism, which will lume up, pure and perpetual as the vestal fire upon the Persian altar.

When William of Normandy invaded England, the ar my was headed by a Minstrel, in the employment of the Conqueror. He had before inspired the soldiers with his strains. As the fight commenced, he led on the men, amising them with feats of daring, to inspire them with daunt less intrepidity; and then poured forth the war-song of Roland, their ancient leader. The effect, we are told, was electrical; the whole army caught the spirit of their leader, and, borne onward by its infuriating influence, rolled upon the foe. Who can tell the influence of that strain? But for Taillifer, the first William might never have won the proud title of "the Conqueror ;" but for that Minstrel's song, the memorable field of Hastings had not been won; sye, and the whole record of English history had changed its hue !

We remarked, a moment since, that the fact of the power of Music to influence the hearts, and soften the manners of men, was amply sustained by authenticated history. When properly cultivated, it has a tendency to refine the heart. One of the Grecian historians, Polybius, in speaking of the great difference observable in the manners of two neighboring tribes, the Arcadians and the Cynaetheans, says, that the former were celebrated for their piety, humanity and hospitality; whilst their neighbors were equally characterized by their savage manners, wickedness and cruelty; and that he could account for this difference, only by the cultivation on the one hand, and the neglect on the other, of that genuine and perfect Music, which is useful in The legends of early Spain are replete with incidents of every state. The Arcadians taught their children from in- equal interest and point. But we have already lengthened fancy the sweet science of sound; the people emulated our remarks too much to even think of enumerating them. each other in the perfection of its art; and the Government It was the war-song of the Cid,' that carried the victoripromoted it at the public expense. And he concludes by ous standard of Castile and Arragon upon the tide of bat saying, that the object was not idle pleasure, but that of tle-this, that reared the blood-red cross, where the crescent softening the rough and stubborn tempers of the inhabi- had floated in sullen triumph for more than six hundred tants; and that the only way by which their savage neigh-years-it was this, that rolled the Hymn of Praise, along bors could be brought to a similar state of refinement, the wild Sierras and mountain cliffs, where naught had beea would be to restore Music to their country. heard but the cry of Allah and his Prophet.

The inimitable Scott has beautifully alluded to the influence of the Troubadours, the Minstrels of the age preceding the reformation; who were its only cultivators during that gloomy period; travelling from castle to castle, and from camp to camp, and chanting their wild and passionate lays upon the guitar and harp.

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Napoleon, confessedly the most consummate commander that ever lifted sword, and who, by his tactics, out-generalled all Europe, had a strict regard to the pieces of Music, which were played among the soldiery on particular oces sions. Certain tunes were at times prohibited; others used only under peculiar circumstances; and others again, reserved for the final charge-retained, perhaps, only to be let loose with the reserve corps; and it is stated that, in

"As the fabled lute of the Egyptian Memnon hailed the advent of the natural morning, so when the morning of Science dawned upon a lengthened age, the shells of the Trou-making the famous passage of the Alps, under circumstan badours sounded to the impulse of its first rays." And how? He continues, "by the delicate touches of their songs, they harmonized the feelings of the rude and illiterate age; soothed the austere features of chivalry; and by increasing the veneration for beauty, brightened the devotion and chastity of love."

ces the most appalling and dreadful; if the soldiers, at any
time hesitated in their march, he ordered the bugles to
sound their liveliest notes; and if the obstacle was so great
as to bring them to a dead halt, the whole band was ordered
to peal forth the charge to battle; which never failed to bear
them over the most formidable difficulties. Every individ-
ual has doubtless heard of the influence of "Home Music"
on the Swiss soldiers, so touchingly alluded to by the Poet

The intrepid Swiss that guards a foreign shore,
Condemned to climb his mountain-cliffs no more;
If chance, he hears the song so sweetly wild,
Which, on those cliffs his infant hours beguiled,
Melts at the long lost scenes that round him rise,
And sinks a Martyr to repentant sighs.

And here, by this allusion to this race of bards, we are reminded of an incident we have somewhere read, which, to our own mind, is a happy illustration of the point we are now considering. History tells us, that Raymond, Count de Thoulouse, was the patron of the Troubadours! It tells us also, that he was the protector of the Albigenses, during their bloody persecution; that he threw around these pious worshippers the arm of his protection, when nearly all France had risen to crush them, and that this arm was never withdrawn but with his life! Would it be too much to It is a fact, that the Swiss airs, known under the generi say, that the Music of these bards had an influence in sof-name of "Ranz des Vaches," sometimes excited the soldiers tening and refining the feelings of this noble lord? Be this to such an agony of feeling, as to bring on a melancholy, so as it may, the heart that was enlisted to patronize the Trou- deep, that it could not be removed until they again stood badours, deeply sympathized with the sorrows of a pious amid their mountain-homes. and persecuted people; and it belongs to the imperishable part of history, and to the praise of Music, that their influence was powerful in raising a darkened world to the light and order, which has been progressive to the present time. To speak of the power of Music to arouse the feelings,

These references to the power of Martial Music, will be regarded merely as illustrative. May the time soon cone, when its influence in such a cause shall no longer be need ed; when war, and with it the war-cry, may no more e heard, and Music may be confined to its legitimate use-to

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