Rt, and no inconsiderable number could perhaps perform it very decently
themselves. It is indeed at these quartett and quintett meetings, that
you see genuine specimens of musical knowledge and musical enthusiasm.
They take place by half-dozens during the season; and you always find
the same class of audience, often the same individuals, regularly ranged
before the executants. But place now for the real grand, miscellaneous,
popular, and populous morning concert! Now for elephantine dimensions
and leviathan bills of fare. It is nominally, perhaps, or really,
perhaps, the annual benefit concert of some well-known performer, or it
is the speculation of a great musical publishing house, in the name of
one of their composing or performing _proteges_. The latter is, indeed,
a very common practice. But whether the music-publishing and
opera-box-letting firm be the real concert-giver, or merely the agent,
to it is left the whole of the nice operation of 'getting up' the
entertainment. It has then exhausted all the dodges of puffery in
pumping up an
