onour to announce that his matinee
musicale will take place on Wednesday, the 27th September, in
the Merchant Hall, Glasgow. To commence at half-past two
o'clock. Tickets, limited in number, half-a-guinea each, and
full particulars to be had from Mr. Muir Wood, 42, Buchanan
street.

He continues:

The net profits of this concert are said to have been exactly
L60--a ridiculously low sum when we compare it with the
earnings of later day virtuosi; nay, still more ridiculously
low when we recall the circumstance that for two concerts in
Glasgow sixteen years before this Paganini had L 1,400. Muir
Wood, who has since died, said: "I was then a comparative
stranger in Glasgow, but I was told that so many private
carriages had never been seen at any concert in the town. In
fact, it was the county people who turned out, with a few of
the elite of Glasgow society. Being a morning concert, the
citizens were busy otherwise, and half a guinea was considered
too high a sum for their wives and daughters."

The late Dr. James Hedderwick, of Glasgow, tells in his
reminiscences that on entering the hall he found it about one-third
full. It was obvious that a number of the audience were
personal friends of Chopin. Dr. Hedderwick recognized the
composer at once as "a little, fragile-looking man, in pale
gray suit, including frock coat of identical tint and texture,
moving about among the company, conversing with different
groups, and occasionally consulting his watch," which seemed
to be "no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an
alderman." Whiskerless, beardless, fair of hair, and pale and
thin of face, his appearance was "interesting and
conspicuous," and when, "after a final glance at his miniature
horologe, he ascended the platform and placed himself at the
instrument, he at once commanded attention." Dr. Hedderwick
says it was a drawing-room entertainment, more piano than
forte, though not without occasional episodes of both strength
and grandeur. It was perfectly clear to him that Chopin was
marked for an early grave.

So far as can be ascertained, there are now living only two
members of that Glasgow audience of 1848. One of the two is
Julius Seligmann, the veteran president of the Glasgow Society
of Musicians, who, in response to some inquiries on the
subject, writes as follows:

"Several weeks before the concert Chopin lived wit