But men invoking Nature, do not find in her the Holy Mother she in such case becomes to her daughters, whom she so persecutes.

Men call on her for their defence, as a favourable witness: she is a note of their rhetoric.

They are not bettered by her sustainment; they have not, as women may have, her enaemic aid at a trying hour.

It is not an effort at epigram to say, that whom she scourges most she most supports.
An Opera-placard drew his next remark to Fenellan.
'How Wagner seems to have stricken the Italians! Well, now, the Germans have their Emperor to head their armies, and I say that the German emperor has done less for their lasting fame and influence than Wagner has done.

He has affected the French too; I trace him in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette--and we don't gain by it; we have a poor remuneration for the melody gone; think of the little shepherd's pipeing in Mireille; and there's another in Sapho-delicious.