Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 467
ur grocers, to buy a lucifer-box, your are sure to hear in the back-parlour the romance of Guido played on the piano. The pianists of the Academy are the pride of their parents, the joy of the familyparties, the attraction of the concerts at two shillings the ticket, and the plague ofthe… … THE DANCINO-SCHOOL. THE PUPIL OF THE ACADEMY. 297 tion of prizes, the Secretary of State recommends to the young pupils a nobleemulation, she has no occasion to follow the advice. A new harpist succeeds everyten years to the harpist who retires ; but two harpists were never known to betogether at…
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