I suspected it; but now that I am sure, I want to tell you at once how pleased I was with it.
You are beyond your years; always keep on--and remember that on Sunday, December 11, 1853, you obligated yourself to become a great master.
Your pleased and devoted friend, CH.

GOUNOD.
Many works which had been unknown to Parisian audiences were given at these concerts and nowhere else.

Among them were Schubert's _Symphony in C,_ fragments of Weber's opera _Preciosa,_ his _Jubel overture_, and symphonies by Gade, Gouvy, Gounod, and Reber.

These symphonies are not dazzling but they are charming.

They form an interesting link in the golden chain, and the public has a right and even some sort of duty to hear them.