n and
earth agree to follow him. I have a part for the brooks--their notes
drop, drop, drop, like his: for the woods--they sob like him. At
length, nothing remains but to blow the Hautboys; and just as the
chorus arrives at its fulness, they come maundering in. They have a
sweet old blundering 'cow song' to themselves--a silly thing, made of
the echoes of all pastoral sounds. There's a warbling waggoner in it,
and his team jingling their bells. There's a shepherd driving his
flock from the fold, bleating; and the lowing of cattle. Down falls
the lark like a stone; it is time he looked for grubs. Then the
Hautboys go out, gradually; for the waggoner is far on his road to
market; sheep cease to bleat and cattle to low, one by one; they are
on their grazing ground, and the business of the day is begun. Last of
all, the heavenly music sweeps away to waken more westering lands,
over the Atlantic and its whitening sails."--"_An Essay without End_."

ADDISON ON THE PERSONIFICATION OF THE LEADING INSTRUMENT.

In the pages of the _Tatler_ (April, 1710), Addison with much
ingenuity and humour personifies certain musical instruments. He says:
"I have often imagined to myself that different talents in discourse
might be shadowed out after the same manner by different kinds of
music; and that the several conversable parts of mankind in this great
city might be cast into proper characters and divisions, as they
resemble several instruments that are in use among the masters of
harmony. Of these, therefore, in their order; and first of the Drum.

"Your Drums are the blusterers in conversation, that with a loud
laugh, unnatural mirth, and a torrent of noise, domineer in public
assemblies; overbear men of sense; stun their companions; and fill the
place they are in with a rattling sound, that hath seldom any wit,
humour, or good breeding in it. I need not observe that the emptiness
of the Drum very much contributes to its noise.

"The Lute is a character directly opposite to the Drum, that sounds
very finely by itself. A Lute is seldom heard in a company of more
than five, whereas a Drum will show itself to advantage in an assembly
of five hundred. The Lutenists, therefore, are men of a fine genius,
uncommon reflection, great affability, and esteemed chiefly by persons
of a good taste, who are the only proper judges of so delightful and
soft a melody.

"Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish
themselve