"An awful but grand imagination! In the entr'actes portions from Spohr's opera "Faust" were performed.

They celebrated today Goethe's eightieth birthday." It must be admitted that the master-work is dealt with rather laconically, but Chopin never indulges in long aesthetical discussions.

On the following Saturday Meyerbeer's "Il Crociato" was to be performed by the Italian Opera--for at that time there was still an Italian Opera in Dresden.

Chopin, however, did not stay long enough to hear it, nor did he very much regret missing it, having heard the work already in Vienna.

Although Baron von Friesen received our friend most politely, he seems to have been of no assistance to him.