Music and Manners in France and Germany: a series of travelling sketches of art and society

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MUSIC AND MANNERS IN FRANCE AND GERMANY: A SERIES OF TRAVELLING SKETCHES OF &rt antr gbomtg. BY HENRY F. CHORLEY, AUTHOR OF " CONTI," ETC. ETC. " Praising all, is praising none." — Burney. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND flpNGMANS, PATERNOSTER- ROW. 1841. London: Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street- Square. TO JOHN RUTTER CHORLEY, Wfytiz §&&$£& ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED IIV HIS BROTHER. A ADVBETISEMENT. When I first began to indulge myself with a few holiday weeks in France and Germany, it was as little likely that I should ever publish any thing on the Manners of either country, as it was probable that I should ever take pen in hand to write about Art in the days when I used to leave my bed betimes to hammer out Hook's harpsichord lessons and the " Battle of Prague " on the feeblest of all old-fashioned square piano-fortes.

The public will care little for the temptations which have led me to venture an essay then so little contemplated ; but I hope I may be permitted, for honesty's sake, to state the amount and nature of the materials from which the following sketches of Music and Manners have been arranged, with a constant reference to English wants and English capa bilities. a VI

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