prescribed (according to a dangerous healing art, which bids me wait and wait, but not yet hope). — There is also still in France a pre-understanding and ready welcome for those rarer and rarely gratified men, who are too comprehensive to find satisfaction in any kind of fatherlandism, and know how to love the South when in the North and the North when in the South — the born Midlanders, the “good Europeans.” For them BIZET has made music, this latest genius, who has seen a new beauty and seduction, — who has discovered a piece of the SOUTH IN MUSIC.

255. I hold that many precautions should be taken against German music. Suppose a person loves the South as I love it — as a great school of recovery for the most spiritual and the most sensuous ills, as a boundless solar profusion