that on either of these grounds it is so bad that it is not very well worth sending for to a lending-library. But Mr. Chorley, theoretically at least, will not object to be examined by his own standard of what any work should be, and by such a standard Thirty Years' Musical Recollections ought clearly never to have been written at all. This gentleman is in the habit of only thinking indifferently well of some ten out of every dozen of those who appeal to the public either from the stage or the concert-room. The eleventh he tells us is so bad that such an engagement is not from any point of view to be explained; but then the twelfth is all that the others should have been. Mr. Chorley, it is clear, when his critical functions were first ordered was never meant to praise any one; and when he is entirely satisfied, no one else can ever understand the reason. He was on the whole of opinion, when it first apappeared that his judgment was to be final, that the ordeal of criticism was not nearly sufficiently severe, and no one needs now to be assured that Mr. Chorley's opinion about compassed the truth. Although Mr. Chorley's treatment of a great many people has been anything but tender, he is seemingly so fond of being strange that he has always been found recommending some one in the Athenæum who could never find public encouragement enough for a second season, or dismissing in some three sentences, and with not less than half-a-dozen dashes, an artiste whose fame may have been confirmed by Europe. He seems to think that disparagement ought, in proportion to encouragement, never to fall below some three-fourths of the whole; and if he is right about the quantity, we object to the direction of its application. Mr. Chorley is not bound to respect public opinion; but he is, or he should be, bound not to lament that criticism is not more generally applied, and then appear as the apologist of singers who either never understood music or have ceased to be able to sing. It was necessary that Mr. Chorley should be very capricious, and almost a bad writer, to fulfil all the requirements of his post. It was smart, bombastic, and not always English; but if it was tolerated at fourpence and threepence a-week, there was no need further to inflate it, to make of it Recollections, and with all its worst faults exaggerated, to offer it again in two vols. post 8vo. for a guinea. No doubt Mr. Chorley has excellent and sufficient reasons for allowing the public to see it all again—all again, too, with all the dashes preserved. But we are not sure, although the book has really amused us a good deal, that the writing good deal, that the writing is not quite the best part of the entertainment. It is so thoroughly, and yet so unconsciously bad; and then Mr. Chorley placidly enough requires that no one shall dispute what he says. He is not merely satisfied with the admission that he does know much about that of which he writes, although it may be not nearly so much as he says he does. We cannot help feeling that Mr. Chorley's best friend is not his own pen, and that if these Recollections had come within the experience of some one better able to express them, an only amusing book would have become a permanently valuable one. Mr. Chorley with emphasis disdains ordinary tests, and he would not like to be judged by a mean standard; but it is wholly impossible to repress the conviction that the arch-critic of the musical world, at whose spasmodic conclusions some artiste or another has trembled every Saturday, is not equal to the portraits that he has always offered of himself. When an audience has been seen to rise with enthusiasm before the powers of a great singer, Mr. Chorley has gone out of the furore and advised the singer, if he had any respect for himself, never to venture his services again; and he has generally contrived to have it said "that such and such an artiste was very successful, but Mr. Chorley is of opinion that the success was not legitimate." However, there may be a sameness in this sort of luxury; so he determined to let us who are now living see what hard things he said of those of another generation. At the same time, putting the badness of the style out of sight, and conceits that have received homage at the hands of troops of singers, Mr. Chorley's Thirty Years' Recollections are well worth having; and if a great subject has not received anything like justice, till a better historian of the period is found they will have to suffice. The readers of the Athenæum will not indeed find a great deal that is new; but to others there will probably be inducement enough to carry them through. Indeed, Mr. Chorley's position has given him great and unusual advantages, second only perhaps to those of the critic of the Times. To call on him is generally the business of an artiste new to this country; and if no one would think of supposing him purchaseable, no one supposes that he is not to be impressed. There is hardly a great living composer or singer who is not personally known to Mr. Chorley; and their attentions on their arrival, full of the fears of a first trial or a first appearance, are not without a hold on one who devoutly believes that all the musical world depends on the verdict that he has to give. So every page brings us to some familiar name. Mr. Chorley prefaces his volume with portraits of Signor Rubini and Madame Grisi, and the pictures faithfully represent the author's predilections. Indeed, this is just where Mr. Chorley has so contrived to take from the value of his book. With all his wonderful popularity, Signor Rubini was never a legitimate singer, and degraded himself beyond description to sing unlike a man; but there is nothing but praise for the unnatural vocalist; and there is not a word of Madame Grisi's "farewell" impositions, or of Signor Mario's appearances without a note left, whilst he can only say of Signor Tamberlik's unsurpassed voice that it does not entirely satisfy him. Mr. Chorley, who gives something of a biography of nearly every singer of any note, and who does not refuse to give the opinion of Europe when it is favourable to his favourites, in the case of Signor Tamberlik, holds back that testimony which at S. Petersburg and at Paris declares the great tenor to be unsurpassed and almost unapproached. Mr. Chorley, who knows the opinion of both publics, disingenuously enough suppresses them, although at Paris, where Nourrit and Duprez are jealously treasured, Signor Tamberlik is preferred to both by acclamation. We have given only one instance of Mr. Chorley's unfairness, and we might give any number of dozens. But those who are prepared to accept Mr. Chorley's facts will be amused by the way in which he serves them up; and those who may be disposed to criticise may get their share of the entertainment out of the same fund. But when it is said that of every sacred or secular work of nearly every composer or singer of the last thirty years we learn something, the sort of entertainment offered by the book may be estimated. A deliberate judgment is come to about everything or everybody introduced, and in such a way that it will appear safest to leave it undisturbed. It is simply a third-rate book with unusual attractions, of which all come of its subject and none from its style. Whenever Mr. Chorley condemns or commends, is pleasant or severe, he gets about three dashes into every line. The book should be seen on this account alone. We suppose coming from such a quarter that it is quite right; but it does seem to us remarkable that in a work where the style is generally hopelessly bad, the interest certainly never fails. With all its deficiencies it is readable; with all its egotism it may be read without feeling that it had better have been left alone. There is something about everything and about everybody musically interesting during the last thirty years. The publication of these volumes will no doubt bring out others; in which case, if they are only tolerably fair and fairly written, Mr. Chorley's book will be superseded. He will at least have indicated what ought to be done even if he could not do it; but it will never, with any reason, be said that, with all their shortcomings, these Thirty Years' Recollections should not have appeared. 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