eculiarly distasteful to the ear unaccustomed to
it; song, in unison, is the natural music of savage man; harmony
is art; to be pleased with it therefore, implies a mind and
ear cultivated and refined. The same remark hold good with
instrumental music.

[8] We apologize to our zealous correspondent for omitting the
ingenious defence of War, contained in the Note to this passage.
Its insertion would involve ourselves in a war--we mean of
"words, words, words." As a private opinion, we admit the
argument of the defence; though it militates so strongly with
passion and prejudice that its insertion would be the war-hoop
for a whole community of peace-makers to break in upon our
literary _otium._ We wish to be the last in the world to feed
a popular fallacy on any subject; but in some respects the
argument employed in the journal quoted by M.L.B. is of too
general a description to controvert the error in the present
case. We must be courteous--though not of the court: ours is a
system of non-intervention in politics; ever, in matters of
literary dispute we do little more than "bite our thumb." It is
hoped our correspondent will rightly understand us; and so now,
like Mr. Peake's bashful man in the farce, we offer our apology
for having apologized. By the way, in the, newspapers is
advertised a pamphlet, containing an apology for its
publication.--ED, M.

[9] It is a pity that when Voltaire wrote this clever paper, Gas and
Steam were not in vogue to add to the "astonishments" of Tullia.
This would also most miraculously have assisted Madame de Genlis,
in that no less clever exposition of the wonders of nature and
art, the story of Alphonso and Thelismon.

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THE YEAR OF WATERLOO.

[In continuation of our extracts from the very amusing _Private
Correspondence of a Woman of Fashion_ are the following incidents of
this memorable era.]

Return of Napoleon.--At half-past nine o'clock the secretary
announced to us that Napoleon had entered Paris quietly, without
pageantry or mark of splendid triumph, and was seated at supper in the
vacated palace of Louis XVIII!--

"On that same throne where Henri great and