he
played at court the Queen can tell; Niecks cannot. He met Jenny
Lind-Goldschmidt and liked her exceedingly--as did all who had the
honor of knowing her. She sided with him, woman-like, in the Sand
affair--echoes of which had floated across the channel--and visited him
in Paris in 1849. Chopin gave two matinees at the houses of Adelaide
Kemble and Lord Falmouth--June 23 and July 7. They were very recherche,
so it appears. Viardot-Garcia sang. The composer's face and frame were
wasted by illness and Mr. Solomon spoke of his "long attenuated
fingers." He made money and that was useful to him, for doctors' bills
and living had taken up his savings. There was talk of his settling in
London, but the climate, not to speak of the unmusical atmosphere,
would have been fatal to him. Wagner succumbed to both, sturdy fighter
that he was.

Chopin left for Scotland in August and stopped at the house of his
pupil, Miss Stirling. Her name is familiar to Chopin students, for the
two nocturnes, opus 55, are dedicated to her. He was nearly killed with
kindness but continually bemoaned his existence. At the house of Dr.
Lyschinski, a Pole, he lodged in Edinburgh and was so weak that he had
to be carried up and down stairs. To the doctor's good wife he replied
in answer to the question "George Sand is your particular friend?" "Not
even George Sand." And is he to be blamed for evading tiresome
reminders of the past? He confessed that his excessive thinness had
caused Sand to address him as "My Dear Corpse." Charming, is it not?
Miss Stirling was doubtless in love with him and Princess Czartoryska
followed him to Scotland to see if his health was better. So he was not
altogether deserted by the women--indeed he could not live without
their little flatteries and agreeable attentions. It is safe to say
that a woman was always within call of Chopin.

He played at Manchester on the 28th of August, but his friend Mr.
Osborne, who was present, says "his playing was too delicate to create
enthusiasm and I felt truly sorry for him." On his return to Scotland
he stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Salis Schwabe.

Mr. J. Cuthbert Hadden wrote several years ago in the Glasgow "Herald"
of Chopin's visit to Scotland in 1848. The tone-poet was in the poorest
health, but with characteristic tenacity played at concerts and paid
visits to his admirers. Mr. Hadden found the following notice in the
back files of the Glasgow "Courier":

Monsieur Chopin has the h