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Dickens wrote a few songs and ballads, and in most cases he fell in with the custom of his time, and suggested the tune to which they were to be sung. In addition to those that appear in the various novels, there are others which deserve mention here.

One morning from his head we bore With every stitch of sail, And going at ten knots an hour In six months came to his tail.

Oh let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

There are some well-known lines which owners of books were fond of writing on the fly-leaf in order that there might be no mistake as to the name of the possessor. The general form was something like this:

John Wigglesworth is my name, And England is my nation; London is my dwelling-place, And Christ is my salvation.

Mister Sapsea is his name, England is his nation, Cloisterham's his dwelling-place, Aukshneer's his occupation.

And Captain Cuttle thus describes himself, ascribing the authorship of the words to Job--but then literary accuracy was not the Captain's strong point:

Cap'en Cuttle is my name, And England is my nation, This here is my dwelling-place, And blessed be creation.

'Would you mind Handel for a familiar name? There's a charming piece of music, by Handel, called the "Harmonious Blacksmith."'

'I should like it very much.'

O God, who by Thy Prophet's hand Did'st smite the rocky brake, Whence water came at Thy command Thy people's thirst to slake, Strike, now, upon this granite wall, Stern, obdurate, and high; And let some drop of pity fall For us who starve and die!

In Music a retrogressive step in which there is much hope, has been taken. The P.A.B., or pre-Agincourt Brotherhood, has arisen, nobly devoted to consign to oblivion Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, and every other such ridiculous reputation, and to fix its Millennium before the date of the first regular musical composition known to have been achieved in England. As this institution has not yet commenced active operations, it remains to be seen whether the Royal Academy of Music will be a worthy sister of the Royal Academy of Art, and admit this enterprising body to its orchestra. We have it, on the best authority, that its compositions will be quite as rough and discordant as the real old original.

Fourteen years later he makes use of a well-known phrase in writing to his friend Wills in reference to the proofs of an article.

I have gone through the number carefully, and have been down upon Chorley's paper in particular, which was a 'little bit' too personal. It is all right now and good, and them's my sentiments too of the Music of the Future.

Although there was little movement in this direction when Dickens wrote this, the paragraph makes interesting reading nowadays in view of some musical tendencies in certain quarters.

In his speech at Birmingham on 'Literature and Art' he makes special reference to the 'great music of Mendelssohn.'

Moore.

'Seven Dials! the region of song and poetry--first effusions and last dying speeches: hallowed by the names of Catnac and of Pitts, names that will entwine themselves with costermongers and barrel-organs, when penny magazines shall have superseded penny yards of song, and capital punishment be unknown!'

The 'Hutchinson family' was a musical troupe composed of three sons and two daughters selected from the 'Tribe of Jesse,' a name given to the sixteen children of Jesse and Mary Hutchinson, of Milford, N.H. They toured in England in 1845 and 1846, and were received with great enthusiasm. Their songs were on subjects connected with Temperance and Anti-Slavery. On one occasion Judson, one of the number, was singing the 'Humbugged Husband,' which he used to accompany with the fiddle, and he had just sung the line 'I'm sadly taken in,' when the stage where he was standing gave way and he nearly disappeared from view. The audience at first took this as part of the performance.

Miss Rainforth was the soloist at the first production of Mendelssohn's 'Hear my Prayer.'

INSTRUMENTAL COMBINATIONS

VIOLIN, VIOLONCELLO, HARP, PIANO

We have an occasional mention of a theatre orchestra, as, for instance, when the Phenomenon was performing at Portsmouth :

'Ring in the orchestra, Grudden.'

That useful lady did as she was requested, and shortly afterwards the tuning of three fiddles was heard, which process, having been protracted as long as it was supposed that the patience of the orchestra could possibly bear it, was put a stop to by another jerk of the bell, which, being the signal to begin in earnest, set the orchestra playing a variety of popular airs with involuntary variations.

We meet with but few players on the violin, and it is usually mentioned in connexion with other instruments, though it was to the strains of a solitary fiddle that Simon Tappertit danced a hornpipe for the delectation of his followers, while the same instrument supplied the music at the Fezziwig's ball.

In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.

The orchestra at the 'singing-house' provided for Jack's amusement when ashore consisted of a fiddle and tambourine; while at dances the instruments were fiddles and harps. It was the harps that first aroused Mr. Jingle's curiosity, as he met them being carried up the staircase of The Bull at Rochester, while, shortly after, the tuning of both harps and fiddles inspired Mr. Tupman with a strong desire to go to the ball. Sometimes the orchestra is a little more varied. At the private theatricals which took place at Mrs. Gattleton's , the selected instruments were a piano, flute, and violoncello, but there seems to have been a want of proper rehearsal.

Enhardi par ce succ?s, le comte d?cide d'aller assi?ger Ypres, que viennent secourir 3,000 Gantois, conduits par Jean Boele et Arnould de Clerk. De Bruges, le comte se dirige sur Thourout, puis sur Poperinghe, o? il r?unit une arm?e de 20,000 hommes. P. 51 ? 53, 313, 314.

Arnould de Clerk est mentionn? en 1380 avec Simon Colpaert dans les comptes de Gand ? propos d'une exp?dition ? Dixmude.

Les Gantois envoient alors ? Ypres un nouveau renfort de 9,000 hommes, sous les ordres de Rasse d'Herzeele, Pierre du Bois, Pierre de Wintere et Jean de Launoit, qui, apr?s ?tre pass?s par Courtrai, d?cid?s ? livrer bataille au comte, attendent ? Roulers d'?tre rejoints par les troupes d'Ypres, d?j? renforc?es par celles de Jean Boele et d'Arnould de Clerk.

Un Pierre de Wint para?t en mai 1378 dans les comptes de Gand .

Jean de Launoit appartient ? la corporation des marchands en 1376 et 1377 . Est-ce le m?me que Jan vander Helst, ?chevin entre 1377 et 1380 ? D'apr?s Meyer , c'?tait un banni.

Belgique, prov. de Flandre occidentale.

Surprises dans une embuscade, ces derni?res troupes sont taill?es en pi?ces par les gens du comte et perdent pr?s de 3,000 hommes. Les Yprois rentrent dans leur ville et les Gantois se r?fugient ? Courtrai. P. 53 ? 56, 314.

Meyer n'estime qu'? 1,200 le nombre des Gantois morts.

Mais, dans leur fureur d'avoir ?t? vaincus, ils accusent Jean Boele de trahison et le tuent; ils retournent ensuite ? Gand, pendant que Jean de Launoit va s'emparer du ch?teau de Gavre sur l'Escaut. P. 56, 57, 315.

Le comte marche alors sur Ypres, qui lui ouvre ses portes et se rend ? merci; il fait mettre ? mort plus de 700 partisans des Gantois, envoie ? Bruges 300 otages, et, cela fait, se dispose ? assi?ger Courtrai. P. 57, 58, 315.

N'esp?rant plus de secours de la part des Gantois, la ville se rend au comte, qui prend 200 otages et, peu de temps apr?s, rentre ? Bruges en passant par Deynse. Au bout d'une quinzaine de jours, aux environs de la f?te de la D?collation de saint Jean-Baptiste , le comte convoque de nouveau ses gens et vient s'?tablir ? la Biete pour faire le si?ge de Gand. Robert de Namur a r?pondu ? son appel, mais non Guillaume, qui alors est en France, aupr?s du roi. Gautier d'Enghien est mar?chal de l'arm?e. Les Gantois, encourag?s dans leur d?fense par les Li?geois, les gens de Bruxelles et du Brabant, supportent vaillamment le si?ge, qui ne peut ?tre complet, et sont ravitaill?s du c?t? de Bruxelles et des Quatre-M?tiers. P. 58 ? 60, 315.

Le 29 ao?t 1380.

D'apr?s Meyer , ce fut le 1er septembre, imm?diatement apr?s la prise de Deynse, que commen?a le si?ge de Gand, qui devait ?tre long et durer pr?s de dix semaines. Le comte avait avec lui 100,000 hommes .

Ter Boote, plateau situ? au nord de Gand, au del? de Longpont .

R?gion situ?e au nord de Gand et comprenant les m?tiers d'Assenede, de Bouchaute, de Hulst et d'Axel.

Tandis que le seigneur d'Enghien, que le Hase de Flandre et le jeune s?n?chal de Hainaut, Jacques de Werchin, se distinguent dans des escarmouches, les gens de Bruges, de Poperinghe et d'Ypres, envoy?s par le comte ? Longpont, se font battre par les Gantois. P. 60 ? 62, 316.

Langerbrugge, au nord de Gand.

Ce combat eut lieu ? la fin du si?ge, le 5 novembre 1380. Il fut fort meurtrier; c'est l? que mourut Josse de Hallwin . Voy. les comptes relatifs ? Longpont .

Fiers de ce succ?s, les Gantois, au nombre de 6,000, vont prendre, br?ler et piller Alost, dont les seigneurs, Louis de Marbais, Geoffroi de la Tour et Philippe de Jonghe, n'ont que le temps de fuir; ils se rendent ma?tres ensuite de la ville de Termonde , mais ne peuvent s'emparer du ch?teau, d?fendu par le seigneur de Widescot; enfin ils entrent par force dans Grammont, puis retournent ? Gand avec leur butin. P. 62, 63, 316.

Le 6 octobre 1380 .

Godefroy de la Tour, rentier de Brabant, donne quittance le 15 d?cembre 1374 de 125 francs d'or, pour terme d'une rente ? lui due par le tr?sor royal .

C'est le jour de la Saint-Denis, 9 octobre, que les Gantois partent pour Termonde, qu'ils prennent le 11 .

L'hiver s'approche; le comte se retire alors ? Bruges et envoie ? Audenarde tenir garnison les seigneurs d'Enghien et de Montigni, pour inqui?ter les Gantois.

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