. Bohemian Paris of to-day . BOHEMIAN PARIS LES CLOCHES. Les cloches Catholiques,Du haut de leur beffroi,Voyaient avec effroiLa resurrection des Grandes cloches revaient,En quatre-vingtonze,Las cloches da bronzeRevaient. Legay had quite a distinguished appearance as hestood singing before the piano. He wore a gener-ously cut frock-coat,^=^ and his waistcoat ex-posed a spacious showof white shirt - long hair was care-fully brushed back, hismoustaches neatlywaxed; altogether hewas dainty and jaunty,and the ladies in theroom made no conceal-ment of their ac
. Bohemian Paris of to-day . BOHEMIAN PARIS LES CLOCHES. Les cloches Catholiques,Du haut de leur beffroi,Voyaient avec effroiLa resurrection des Grandes cloches revaient,En quatre-vingtonze,Las cloches da bronzeRevaient. Legay had quite a distinguished appearance as hestood singing before the piano. He wore a gener-ously cut frock-coat,^=^ and his waistcoat ex-posed a spacious showof white shirt - long hair was care-fully brushed back, hismoustaches neatlywaxed; altogether hewas dainty and jaunty,and the ladies in theroom made no conceal-ment of their accompanist wasa picturesque was forty-five or fiftyyears of age; he hadlong white hair and adrooping moustache, and his heavy protruding eyeswere suffused with tears evoked by the pathos of the song. While he gazed up into the singers face with 300. A NIGHT ON MONTMARTRE tear-filled eyes he was in another life, another world,where there was nothing but music and poetry un-alloyed to constitute his heaven. For Legay sangcharmingly, with an art and a feeling that were neverobtrusive ; and his audience was aesthetic. Whenhe had finished he was cheered without stint, andhe clearly showed how much the attention pleasedhim. His song was only one of the numbers on a veryinteresting programme. Thiswas the training school of theyoung poets and song-writersof upper Bohemia; this waswhere they made their debutand met the test ofthat discriminatingcriticism which de-cided them to ad-vance upon theworld or conceal /^^^!themselves tor yeta while from itscruel glare ; andwere they not butrepeating the or-deal of the ancientGreeks, out of which so many noble things passed into literature ?These critics were as frank with their disapprovalas generous with their acceptance. Among those who sang were Gustave Corbet, 301
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