In his passionately whispered confidence the old gentleman must have found solace, for he presently smiled,a real smile,and then still keeping Kirk beside him, began playing a sonata.

He answered, that he believed he was able to pick out a tune; when, to my astonishment, he began a sonata, so strange, and yet so beautiful, and executed in so masterly a manner, that in the whole course of my life I had never heard anything so exquisite.

He wrote a few sonatas, but the majority of his works are short pieces such as are characteristic of the modern romantic school.

When Beethoven found himself throbbing with undescribable emotions he composed a sonata; when Keats felt odd things stirring within him he wrote an ode to an urn, but my friend Dick, quite as evidently on fire with his emotions, merely whistledand then looked around evidently embarrassed lest he should have infringed upon the proprieties of that occasion.

This can be only too well proved by the fact that Beethovenwho spelled the man's name "Brischdower"after dedicating the sonata to him, found that the Africo-European had been his successful rival in one of those numberless flirtations of his, in which Beethoven always came out second.

" Time, and the still more surprising flights of more modern performers, have deprived this famous sonata of anything diabolical which it may once have appeared to possess; but it has great fire and originality, and contains difficulties of no trifling magnitude, even at the present day.

She fetched the sonata, and spread it out.

She improvises sonatas and gallopades, oratorios and mazourkas.

The next year she issued ten sonatas and a "Collection of Ayres."

In the grim silence she turned to an old gentleman on her right and said: "Would you like a sonata before going in to dinner?" He gave a start of surprise and pleasure as he responded briskly: "Why, yes, thanks!

The music of the birds kept time to the sound of the postilions' whipsthe streams sung a fairy legend, and the merry woods, touched with the brilliant glow of an Italian sun, breathed into the air a delicious sonata.

Miss Malison was employed in endeavouring, by commands, exhortations, and threats, to compel her pupil to practise a difficult sonata, which her music-master had desired might be prepared by the time of his next visit.

MUSIC The musical young woman who dropped her peekaboo waist in the piano player and turned out a Beethoven sonata, has her equal in the lady who stood in front of a five-bar fence and sang all the dots on her veil.

How compare a sonata and a sea-bath or measure the Sistine Madonna against a gallop across country?