What pleases people most is sentimental music, but it need not be a silly sentimentality.

Instead, they ought to give the people the charming airs which grow, as naturally as daisies on a lawn, in the vast field of opera-comique.

That is not high art, it is true, but it is pretty music and it is high art compared with what is heard too often in the cafes.

I am not ignorant of the fact that such establishments employ talented people.

But along with the good, what frightful things one hears! And no one would listen to their instrumental repertoire anywhere else! Every time anyone has tried to raise the standards and employ real singers and real _virtuosi_, the attendance has increased.