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credulous Kircheus , melodious Swinburne , philosophic Theophrastus , enterprising De Mairan , antiquarian Bianchini , diplomatic Sir W . Temple , experimental M . Burcette , martial Varro , inflexible Cato , handsome Pindar , venerable .. Esculapius , enchanting Farinelli , ancl melancholy Philip V . of Spain , reliable M . Doclart , ancl investigating Vigneul de Marville . All these persons , so wideldifferent in character ancl stationconcur in crediting music with an

y , immense influence . Most extraordinary are the relations of eminent Dr . Willis , scholastic Scaliger , industrious Boyle , ancl others . We learn further wonders from the eccentric Carlyle , peculiar Pythagoras , historic Boetius , friendl y Damon , painstaking Plutarch , inventive Terpander , ancl others . Again we have strange anecdotes from precocious Malcolm , sympathetic Carl Anton , Florian Beckerand versatile Pope . We also hear peculiar legends of the

, imperious Emperor Theodosius ancl the peaceful Flavianus , ancl astonishingtales from the noted D'Aubigny , skilful Claude le Jeune , and the gallant Due de Joyeuse , the excitable Eric , King of Denmark , clever Antigenidas ancl conquering Alexander , impressive Zimotheus , authoritative -Iamblichus , ancl unfortunate Empedocles . We might make our list much longer , and still by no means exhaust the subject .

It is highly poetical ; let us see what the poets say of music and love , by way of diversion . Brilliant Byron , after pleasant Richard Lovelace and famous Sir Thomas Browne , speaks as follows , describing Zulieka in " The Bride of Abydos " : The light of love , the purity of grace ,

The mind , the music breathing from her face , The heart whose softness harmonized the whole Lovelace has the following in his " Orpheus to Beasts" : Oh ! conld you vieiv the melody Of every grace , And music of her face , d tear

You'drop a ; Seeing more harmony In her bright eye Than now you hear .

Browne in his " Religio Medici " says , " There is music in the beaut y ancl the silent note which Cupid strikes , far sweeter than the sound of an instrument . " Byron again has these lines in " Childe Harold ' s Pilgrimage : " Music arose with its voluptuous swell , Soft looked love to Avhich spake again

eyes eyes , And all went merry as a marriage-bell . Tennyson , our worthy laureate , in " The Princess : a Medley , " speaking of a beloved and winning woman , in his own elegant language , says , all male minds perforce Sway'd to her from their orbits as they moved , And irdled her ivith music

g . The serenade has always been a favourite method with wooing lovers possessing rich voices to win their peerless maids . Love-songs we have by millions . Listen to the inimitable Tennyson once more in " The Princess " : 0 swallowSAvallowif I could follow and 'liht

, , , g Upon her lattice , I Avould pipe and trill , And cheep and twitter twenty million loves , aud again -. 0 , swallow , flying from the golden woods , Fly to her , and pipe and woo her , and make her mine , And tell her , tell her , that I follow thee .