A book about lawyers
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART VIII -MUSIC. CHAPTER XLV. THE SINGING BARKISTER. OCHOLASTIC disciplinarians are almost unanimous in re- O garding a taste for music as a dangerous propensity in the young student. Eighteen years have passed since this writer heard an Oxford tutor implore a freshman, in whom he took friendly as well as professional interest, to cast musical instruments from his room, and to regard the choral service of his college chapel as a temptation rather than as a source of delight. The undergraduate had been found guilty of receiving, entertaining, harbouring, and playing upon a certain cottage-piano which had been placed in his private chamber by a trustful tradesman of the High Street; and in mitigation of judgment the guilty youth, with mingled simplicity and impudence, had urged that his chief motive in ordering the pernicious piece of mechanism was a wish to make his academic cell remind him of his own virtuous home in a distant province. ” I urge you again,” said dear old Christopher Poritifex, to the great delight of a crowded ‘lecture/ who were witnesses of the scene and hearers of the vicegerent’s exhortation, ” to throw that piece of furniture out of the window, or in some other way place yourself beyond its insidious influence. If you cannot overcome an absurd desire to make your room resemble a lady’s drawing- room, retain the piano—but get rid of the works. That would be a step in the right direction. Your vision would be gratified, whilst your mind would escape a poison. In the pleasure which you derive from the sight of a piano, I own myself unable to participate. To me a piano is a gloomy object, surrounded with mournful associations and sad memories. Let me tellyou ” (here Pontifex adopted a tone of overpowering solemnity) ” the case of a grand-piano has, ere n…
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