America is in a more fortunate situation than the nations of Europe; yet to return our resources to the channels of peace, to free our institutions from the hasty improvisations of war emergency, and to protect them from the effects of forced and abnormal application, is a task which will test the wisdom and character of our leaders and our people.

This is the direct outburst of a new life, arising and wrestling with the old forms, habitudes, institutions, with whatsoever is imported and traditional, on the one hand, and with the crude or barbarous improvisations of native energy, on the other.

Not that these would have seemed excessively peculiar to anybody familiar with the haphazard improvisations of minor journalism in the provinces!

It is true they have songs at their dances, but these are spiritless improvisations, and mostly in a high key.

He wound up with an improvisation of his own, which I thought was typically British.

Such might be the exultant improvisations of a master violinist.

Sgricci, Signor: his genius for improvisation.

Taddei, Rosa: her talent for improvisation.

Strangely enough, she had an unusual fondness for fugues and made Mozart write down many of his improvisations.

She used to read aloud to him and tell him stories and hear his improvisations and insist upon their being written out for permanence.

Several of these improvisations were taken down by white men, the words slightly altered, and published under the names of the arrangers.

These likewisesince the new "theory of genius," spreading from England, had gained recognition throughout the whole of Europe, especially in those countries speaking the Germanic languageswere imagined to be a mere succession of inspirations and even of improvisations.

They are only a few light marches, gallops, etc., simple and plaintive enough, but with easily detected traces of remembered harmonies: very different from the strange, weird improvisations of every day.

For this very reason, because they were occasional improvisations, preludes, dreams of things to be, they preserve the finest bloom, the Indian summer of his fancy.

The Italian festa of to-day, usually, as in ancient times, linked to some religious festival, is a scene of gaiety, bright dresses, music, dancing, bonfires, races, and improvisation or mummery; and all that we know of the ancient rural festivals of Italy suggests that they were of much the same lively and genial character.

Some of them are very clever in their improvisations and imitations of different dialects, particularly of the Neapolitan, in which there are so many charming songs.

His picturesDoré-like improvisations, devoid of skill, and, indeed, of artistic perception, save a certain sentiment for the grand and noblefilled me with wonderment and awe.

Yes, we had met before; we had exchanged a few words in So-and-So's studiothe great blonde man, whose Doré-like improvisations had awakened aspiration in me.

It is to be regretted that the main points were inaccurate and apocryphal, the collateral details gratuitous improvisations, introduced for the sake of local color.

These strips I would weave into a crude Rip Van Winkle kind of suit; and so intricate was the warp and woof that on several occasions an attendant had to cut me out of these sartorial improvisations.

Dora had a really wonderful earth voice, almost as wonderful as Marda's heaven voice, which would have been remarkable even among opera singers, and the two were known everywhere for their improvisations.

Abrupt, loud, impassioned sounds, and improvisations.

His picturesDoré-like improvisations, devoid of skill, and, indeed, of artistic perception, save a certain sentiment for the grand and noblefilled me with wonderment and awe.

Yes, we had met before; we had exchanged a few words in So-and-So's studiothe great blonde man, whose Doré-like improvisations had awakened aspiration in me.

Of course, being, as I said, ignorant of the language, I could not understand the matter of the improvisations; but as for the manner, just imagine a mad North American Indian, a howling and dancing Dervise, an excited Shaker, a violent case of fever-and-ague, a New York auctioneer, and a pugilist of the Tom Hyer school, all fused together, and you may form some faint idea of a Welsh bard in the agony of inspiration.