e whole world of man--more than myself, I know that
I possess the secret of happiness; ay, though my powers were suddenly
blasted as by lightning, my wife and children laid in the cold grave,
and my happy home desolated for ever. For I would go out into the
thronged streets, and gather up the sorrows of others, to relieve
them; and I would go out under the quiet sky, and look up to the
Father's throne; and I would pluck peace, as green herbs from active
benevolence and contemplative adoration. Yes; love can save from the
sterility of selfishness, and from the death of despair: but love
alone. No other talisman has the power; pride, self-sustainment,
coldness, pleasure, nothing--nothing--but that divine word of Life
which is life's soul!

POPULAR MUSIC--MAINZER.

In our days, vocal music is beginning to assert in this country the
place it has long held abroad as a great moral educator; no longer
regarded as a superfluity of the rich, it is now established as a
branch of instruction in almost every school, and is gradually finding
its way into many nooks and corners, where it will act as an antidote
to grosser pleasures, by supplying the means of an innocent and
elevating recreation.

The apostle of music, considered as a boon and privilege of 'the
million,' has lately passed away from the scene of his active labours;
and it is but a tribute due to his memory as a philanthropist and man
of genius, while we deplore his loss, to pause for a moment and
briefly trace his career.

Joseph Mainzer was born, on the 21st October 1801, at Treves, of
parents in the middle rank of life. When quite a child, the
predominating taste of his life was so strongly developed, that in
spite of harsh masters he learned to play on the piano, violin,
bassoon, and several wind-instruments; and at the age of twelve could
read at sight the most difficult music, and even attempted
composition. Music, however, was not intended to be his profession,
and was only carried on as a relaxation from the severer studies to
which Mainzer devoted himself at the university of Treves, where he
took the highest degree in general merit, and the first prize for
natural science. At the age of twenty-one, he left college to descend
into the heart of the Saarbruck Mountains as an engineer of mines,
where, according to custom, he had to commence with the lowest grade
of labour, and for months drag a heavy wheel-barrow, and wield the
pickaxe. Yet here, in