discordant as the real old original.

Fourteen years later he makes use of a well-known phrase in
writing to his friend Wills (October 8, 1864) in reference to
the proofs of an article.

I have gone through the number carefully, and have
been down upon Chorley's paper in particular, which
was a 'little bit' too personal. It is all right now
and good, and them's my sentiments too of the Music
of the Future.[8]

Although there was little movement in this direction when
Dickens wrote this, the paragraph makes interesting reading
nowadays in view of some musical tendencies in certain quarters.

[1] In his speech at Birmingham on 'Literature and Art'
(1853) he makes special reference to the 'great music
of Mendelssohn.'

[2] Moore's _Irish Melodies_.

[3] Moore.

[4] 'Seven Dials! the region of song and poetry--first
effusions and last dying speeches: hallowed by the
names of Catnac and of Pitts, names that will entwine
themselves with costermongers and barrel-organs, when
penny magazines shall have superseded penny yards of
song, and capital punishment be unknown!' (_S.B.S._ 5.)

[5] The 'Hutchinson family' was a musical troupe composed of
three sons and two daughters selected from the 'Tribe of
Jesse,' a name given to the sixteen children of Jesse
and Mary Hutchinson, of Milford, N.H. They toured in
England in 1845 and 1846, and were received with great
enthusiasm. Their songs were on subjects connected
with Temperance and Anti-Slavery. On one occasion
Judson, one of the number, was singing the 'Humbugged
Husband,' which he used to accompany with the fiddle,
and he had just sung the line 'I'm sadly taken in,'
when the stage where he was standing gave way and he
nearly disappeared from view. The audience at first
took this as part of the performance.

[6] Miss Rainforth was the soloist at the first production
of Mendelssohn's 'Hear my Prayer.' (See _The Choir_,
March, 1911.)

[7] John Curwen published his _Grammar of Vocal Music_
in 1842.

[8] Quoted in Mr. R.C. Lehmann's _Dickens as an Editor_
(1912).

CHAPTER II

INSTRUMENTAL COMBINATIONS

VIOLIN, VIOLONCELLO, HARP, PIANO

Dickens' orchestras are limited, both in resources and in the
number of performers; in fact, it would be more correct to
call them combinations of instruments. Some of th