outstripping the wind, the pack at fault, but starting in again as they
find the scent, the tally-ho of the hunters, the noble animal at bay, his
death, and the shouts of the crowd,--are all pictured with a freshness
and genuine out-door feeling which seem almost incredible considering
Haydn's age. This remarkable number is separated from its natural
companion, the bacchanalian chorus, by a recitative extolling the wealth
of the vintage. This chorus ("Joyful the Liquor flows") is in two
parts,--first a hymn in praise of wine, sung by the tippling revellers,
and second, a dance tempo, full of life and beauty, with imitations of
the bagpipe and rustic fiddles, the melody being a favorite Austrian
dance-air. With this rollicking combination, for the two movements are
interwoven, the third part closes.

A slow orchestral prelude, "expressing the thick fogs at the approach of
winter," introduces the closing part. In recitative Simon describes the
on-coming of the dreary season, and Jane reiterates the sentiment in the
cavatina, "Light and Life dejected languish." In Lucas's recitative we
see the snow covering the fields, and in his following aria, "The
Traveller stands perplexed," a graphic tone-picture of the wanderer lost
in the snow is presented. At last he espies the friendly light in the
cottage. "Melodious voices greet his ears," and as he enters he beholds
the friendly circle, the old father telling over his stories of the past,
the mother plying the distaff, the girls spinning, and the young people
making the night merry with jest and sport. At last they join in a
characteristic imitative chorus ("Let the Wheel move gayly"). After the
spinning they gather about the fire, and Jane sings a charming love-story
("A wealthy Lord who long had loved"), accompanied by chorus. Simon
improves the occasion to moralize on the sentiment of the seasons in the
aria, "In this, O vain, misguided Man," impressing upon us the lesson
that "Nought but Truth remains;" and with a general appeal to Heaven for
guidance through life, this quaint and peaceful pastoral poem in music
draws to its close. It was the last important work of the aged Haydn, but
it has all the charm and freshness of youth.

LISZT.

Franz Liszt, the most eminent pianist of his time, who also obtained
world-wide celebrity as a composer and orchestral conductor, was born at
Raiding, Hungary, Oct. 22, 1811. His father was an accom