the beautiful "to contribute a stone to the pyramid now rapidly
erecting in honor of the great modern composer"--ay, the living
stone of appreciation, crystalized in the enlightened gratitude
of the heart.






"So works this music upon earth
God so admits it, sends it forth.
To add another worth to worth--

A new creation-bloom that rounds
The old creation, and expounds
His Beautiful in tuneful sounds."






CHAPTER I.

Chopin--Style and Improvements--The Adagio of the Second
Concerto--Funeral March--Psychological Character of the
Compositions of Chopin, &c., &c.