THE POWER OF SONG.

(Read before the Auckland Burns Club

by John Blackman.)

jtfo common-sense person, with a slight knowledge of history, will deny that song has been a power for good in all ages of the world ; even from patriarchal times, song in its rudest condition was the musical means of stimulating the mind to creditable exertions, and preserving old customs. In its savage state, as with the Maoris, song, or chants, has been used for the purposes of law and perpetuating a martial spirifc among peoples. With the tread of civilisa tion and refinement of manners, song, by gentler and more suasive power, assumed sweeter and more beneficent forms of thought, embracing a far wider range of subjects until it became the harmonious vehicle of tender sentiments, patriotism' and the noblest of human passions. The ancient minstrel of whom Sir Walter Scott tells us in Marmion flourished, if I may use the term, about the 12th century, and, as Homer had done centuries before in the intellectual city of Athens, the minstrel exercised his poetic gift in rude measures', and warbled his ballads to the music of the harp among the hills of Northumbria and the lower scenery of Scotland. At the same time the old harper, or ballad singer, was known and respected in Wales and in some parts of the land of Shakespere. Their long white beards made them vener able in the eyes of the public. The minstrels sang "their songs in their own way and in their native provinces, and dis covered a power for good in their rude measures. Even now we have a collection of the old ballads, ■which are amusing in their quaint style, and very interesting as pictures of the thoughts of our ancestors. We have fair sampler) of ballad literature in Percy's "Relics," Evans's " Old Ballads,"' and Ritson's " Anciont Songs from the Time of Richard the Third." Sir Walter Scott has furnished a capital collection of Scottish ballads. Allan Cunningham, also, published two volumes of British song-s. " Some of these are warlike and Jacobite, some ama tory and devotional—the wild lyrical breath ings of Covenanting love and pioty among the hills." These volumes may be found among Sir George Grey's presentation volumes to the Auckland Free Library.

In the further progress of song-literature these old songs were regarded by antiqua rians and authors, and especially by the historian Lord Macaulay, with peculiar interest and curiosity on account of the in sight afforded into the manners and modes of thinking of remote peoples, while their sim plicity, power of advancing intelligence, and natural picturesqueness of style, excitod general admiration among men of literary culture. Critics are mostly agreed as to the character and power of a good song. A song is a brief musical and poetical composi tion, containing a natural sentiment, tersely and definitely expressed, or, as " Kous seau," in his essay on "Music" has it, "a very brief, lyrical poem, to which is added a melody for the purpose of sieging it." Dr. Aikin held a song to be "a short poem, divided into portions of returning measure, arid turning upon some &inrfo thousrht or feeling."' Percy, in his Ji Ke liques," gives many interesting sketches of English minstrels, also of the minstrels of Scotland, many of whose' productions were permeated with that peculiar Scotch humour of which Dean Ramsay gives so many happy illustrations. I have Tieard it said "that Scotchmen are devoid of iiumbup, but it is impossible to accept such a statement, unwarranted as ft is by the many poets of Scotland. Percy is of opinion that tho old harpers or minstrels were mostly from the north country, and indeed tho prevalence of the northern dialect in their compositions shows that this representation is real. On the other hand, tho scene of the finest Scottish ballads is laid in the south of Scotland, which would seem to have been peculiarly the nursery of early Scottish song. We know how valuable the au\cl Scotch songs were to Burns. He found their shattered fragments, caught their enshrouded spirit, re-touched them, and with the keen eye of genius made them beautiful for ever. The power of ' song is felt in every grade of society, and singing has a strengthening and beneficent influence upon the physical system. Singing forms an important part in physical education. Wo possess the two-fold power of articulating words and uttering musical sounds, and singing and speaking contribute to maintain and even to improve the healthy state of the various muscles and organs. It has been reason ably asserted that singing is one of the best preventatives of and sure stremedies for general weakness of the ehesb, and that its use, provided always it be proportioned to the other physical powors of the singer, is calculated to exert a most favour able influence on delicate constitutions. Beautiful are the old songs which charmed ii.s in our youth and early manhood. We can never forget their influence; their soft, sweet music vibrates in memory still, and ;jwakens pensive recollections of tho years that are passed. If the song was good, con taining a serviceable maxim or moral, its influence had a tendency to lighten the ofb dreary path of life. It is not the song, however, simply as a poetic composition that charms the soul and lives lovingly in the memory, but the natural, appealing sentiment which strengthens manhood, cheers the heart and leads the rapt fancy into a dreamy view of the poet's millen nium, " When man to man the warld o'er shall brithers bs.". In the sentiment lies the intrinsic value of a song, and the senti ment may be compressed into a stanza. Therein lies the eong-power, the divine influence, advancing thought and pro gressive taste. A truthful " motto " may form the kindling spirit of a song, and upon the heartfelt sentiment, when wedded to appropriate music, hangs its blossomy burden of everlasting beauty. The due cultivation of taste is of the first impor tance in a singer. The fashion largely pre vails in this city, as in other places, of mumbling out a song with nearly-closed mouth, so that the moving words of the song-writer are lost to the audience, or but doubtfully caught. Some of our modern songs and parodies, with but few excep tions, are worse than useless, because they vitiate and degrade public taste. It is painful to persons of culture to witness the stupid antics and crude melodies of some at our nigger entertainments. Much of the rubbish rattled out by Auckland young men at these popular entertainments has a de grading rather than an elevating tendency. These dusky warblers seem to be quite aware of the unrefining character of their unique performances, and so they blacken their faces, put on "Looly" collars, and show their teeth (false or genuine) to gaping crowds, as much as to say, "We are really ashamed of these unseemed per formances and senseless songs, bub as you will patronise them we sing incog, under an assumed name.":

The worth and power of a good song with a grand progressive idea cannot be exaggerated. A noble thought, sweetly uttered, may regenerate a man, and do more j2fbod than' a dozen sermons by the Rev. Golden Syrup. To give birth to great ideas is the. highest office of education. A song, therefore, may teach men to act upon idefis and principles rather than-from blind impulse and futile imitations. Ben Jonson's « Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes "and Howard Payne's-'' Sweet Home,"- and es pecially the latter, are of world-wide fame. Ben Jonson and William Sbakespere, who were hot total abatainisrs, dranK many a cop of sack together, and sang many a song ♦t such places as the historical M Boar's

Head " and " Mermaid " taverns in the city of London. Their lively conversations and pleasant sallies are forgotten, but their stereotyped songs live still in the world's memory. Rare Ben Jonson preferred the intelligent light of a maiden's eye to seeing her drink of the rosy wine, while the greater bard considered the wintry wind less severe than man's treatment of his fellow man. With different treatment Burns expressed the same thought.

There is very little to admire in the song of " Sweet Home," apart from its endear ing sentiment. In fact, as a composition, it is very poor, but the sentiment " There's no place like homo" is universally felt. There is a stiiking power, therefore, in the old world song which finds a lodgment in every feeling heart. The truest songs pro ceed from the song-writer's inmost soul, as in this memorable' instance. Poor Payne, when he conceived this idea in wintry cir cumstances, and crossed in love, was with out a home, wandering in the cold night, without a shilling to prooure a bed. It was Christmas-time, and the enow lay thick on each side of the streets. He saw shadows of home—happiness playing on the window-blinds, .saw the reflection of the . blazing Christmas log, and heard the carols , and choruses of merry voices. He sighed " Sweet, Sweet Home," and subsequently composed the song which the world has : sung for nearly a century of years. Sir Philip Sydney, or old Fletcher, or whoever first said, " Lot mo make the 1 songs of a nation, and I care not who shall make its laws," evinced a keen knowledge !of human nature, and admitted tho powor of song. In the time of Addison two songs were written, both of which are yet remem bered in song literature, viz., "Black-eyed Susan," by John Gay, the friend of Pope, i and " Sally in our Alley," by Henry Carey. Both songs were written about 1720, 160 years ago, and at onco became popular 1 throughout the British Islos. The first won much sympathy for the 6ailor; tho second touched tho risible faculties of the • people and caused universal laughter. These songs possessed a power for sym pathy and merriment, if they were not very serviceable to the world in their separate tendencies. Longfellow, the genial Ameri can poet, expressed a pretty conceit on the birth of song. He poetically says : "The birth of song took place \inder green hedge rows, in tho leafy lanes, in the genial sum mer-time." Longfellow deserves our thanks for his songs " The Village Black smith " and "The Bridge," the former full of honest thought, the latter full of tender recollections. Some of the songs of the past have had a remarkable power in relation to tho charac ter of military and naval heroes, as in the cases of Sir John Moore and Lord Nelson. Tho once celebrated John Braham composed tho "Death of Nelson," and by his singing of this song night. after nighfc in tho Colosseum, Regent's Park, moved the Eng lish nation to universal sympathy with the hero's misfortune and death. Nelson's moral failings wero completely lost under the power of this song. Braham has never been eclipsed by his rendering of tho " Death of Nelson." Thousands rushed to the Colosseum night after night to liston to the singing of "Nelson's Death" and "Rockodin the Cradle of the Deep," by Braham, whose reputation in London, as first tenor, both in sacred and secular songs, was undisturbed for the long terra of forty five years. Tho " Burial of Sir John Moore," by Roy. Charles Wolfe, was similarly received by audiences both in recitation and song, and called forth feelings of profound sympathy for the distinguished and unsullied hero of Corunna. There are many English songs which have exercised 'an ameliorating power in the homo circle, written with creditablo grace and finish. I would refer especially to the pleasing melodies of Thomas Haynes Bayly, such as the "Soldier's Tear," "0, No, we Never Mention Her," and that really beautiful lyric, " She Wore a Wreath of Roses," in which the author has givemis, in our chabfce langu age, three phases of woman'a life, aa maiden, wife, and widow. Theao songs of a gentle minstrel still livo amongst us, and will not soon be forgotten. " She Wore a Wreath of Roses" was nightly sung to listening hundreds in London by Madame Sala, the mother of the journalist, and it is still a popular song with persons who have a taste for tho beautiful and true in a world of rich harmonies. A pretty song with a meaning in it is sure to be appreciated and enjoyed by those who3O opinions are worth anything. Milton felt the soothing power of a eong and its musical accompaniment, after hours of; wearying intellectual toil. Tho patriotic song of Thomas Campbell won sympathy and high feeling from down-trodden Poland and oppressed nationalities. Charles Swain, a Manchester man, wrote several good songs, and in its day, " Cherry Ripe," and similar ditties, by Herrick, a Devon shire clergyman, had a remarkable circula tion among the English people. The songs of Charles Dibden had the effect, it is said, of manning the British navy, and yet for writing a few plain truths he was badly served by his country and deprived of his well-merited pension. "Tom Bowline" was written by Dibden'n son. The advantages of eong have undoubt edly been greater than many people imagine. Song is the pleasant medium of generous feeling and proverbial sentiment, awakening just sympathies, lightening tho cares of life, and ministering to brotherly love. Who, therefore, will venture to esti mate the power of song or circumscribe tho influence of tho merry muse in relation to the conduct of life ? Individually, I have known poets who have gathered wealth and popularity from a single song. Caperu, known as the Bideford postman-poet, told me of the secret of his success as a West of England song-writer; There was an elec tion in the town, and Caperu wrote n song in favour of the claims of Mr Rock, the popular candidate. In the course of his speech Mr Rock recited Caperu'a poem to the crowd. " Here," said he, "is a man of genius amongst you, and none of you seem to know it. I hope you will not be in equal ignorance of your electoral duty here to-day and return the wrong man." Mr Bock, a London stationer, took a bundle of Caperu's poems home with him, wrote a preface, and got out a large edition of the Postman's Poems. Other editions followed, and at the end of nine months Caperu was the happy recipient of his balance of £360. Lord Palmerston also placed the name of Edward Caperu on the civil list for an annual pension of £60. All song-writers are not so fortunate as Caperu. Poor William Mcc, a decent, honest man, got nothing for his popular songof " Alice Grey," the story of a foolish swain whose heart was breaking for the love of the girl. Wm. Mcc, after fifty years' hard work, died a pauper in Keg worth workhouse. The " Leicester Chronicle " said : " Mcc was a good man, generally respected, and he deserved a etter fate." I need scarcely refer to Tom Hood's " Songof the Shirt," for which the seamtresses of London bless his memory, The power of Hood's timely song was not without beneficent effect on the starving women of the great and wealthy city. The comic or humorous element in song is too much in vogue in the present age. It is very rarely that one hears a sensible comic song. In noticing successful comic songs I would instance two absurdites which • proved of monetary value to their authors, viz., " Villikins and his Dinah" and "Slap ■Bang." " Villikins " was written jy Henry Mayhewy and was sung in a Strand theatre in a piece called the " Wandering Minstrel." The parti of Jem Baggs, a Seven Dials poet, was taken by Mr Robson, and immediately became popu lar. The piece was written in Whitecross streefc prison, where the author was de tained for debts which he felt he never could pay. The immediate success of thi3 production took hold of the risible faculties of play-goers. The profits of " Villikins"

accruing to Mayhew were sufficient to pay his tailor's and baker's bills and enable him once more to breathe the sweet air of liberty. Similarly the success of the silly song aided tha author of "Slap Bang," in a pecuniary sense. The author brought an action for damages against the proprietor of a London Music Hall for per mitting this comic song, which possessed neither rhyme nor reason, and certainly no moral, to bo sung in his hall. The song was copyright, and if I remember rightly the author obtained £100 damages. The judge who heard the case remarked that he could not discover any merit in "Slap Bang." Tao author replied that he had composed steveral hundred Bongs of a much higher order, but they did not take with the public, and so he thought he woul.l write tho stupidest thing possible. He would admit, however, that the favour with which " Slap Bang" had been received was not creditable to the taste of the countrymen of Shakspere. Many fair modern songs have been associated with operas, but as poetical productions, operas cannot be claesed among the noblest flights of the poetic muse. But I presume it is the music of the opera, and not tho doggerel, which has its charms for " ears polite." Iroland has had her Moore to warble forth her plaintive melodies and trailiner wrongs, and these by thoir sympathetic power have attracted special interest in favour of the green isle, 'Ireland has had many song-writers, and next to Moore stands Samuel Lover, whose song-compositions are above the average. "If life bo a burden, 1 said Lover, " let it be the burden of a song, which exercises a genial influence on the human spirit." Scotland is comparatively » small country, but, as in other departments of life and letters, she occupies a foremost position in the realm of Bong, and what an influence Scotland's song-writers have had on the morals, social life, and education of tho Scottish people ! In tho wake of Scotland's premier poet, Burns, we notice Richard Gall's " Farewell to Ayrshire," Alexander Wilson with his ballad of " Watty and Meg," LadyNairne with her sacred songs "Tho Land o'the Leal,""The Lairdo' Oock pen," and "Caller Herin 1," and Lady Bernard's " Auld Robin Gray." Robert Tinnahall, with his select melodies, and ever enduring " Jessie, the Flower of Dum blane." This sweet eong gives Tannahill a position very near Robert Burns. I noticed in the British Museum that nearly two hundred editions of " Jessie" had been pub lished and over 300,000 copies circulated. Tho life of Tannahill, in its material aspects was very sad, forming another illustration of tho truth of Shelley's lines :— ■

" Most wretched mon Are cradled into poetry by wrongf ; They loam in suffering whatthey teaoh In iong. Whab Scotchman can forget Boswell's " Jenny's Bawbee," and " Good Night and joy bo wi ye a'," or James Hogg's " When tho Kye Comes Hame." Wordsworth was not inclined to admit the " Ettrick Shep herd " into the company of northern poets ; said Wordsworth sneeringly, " That fellow calls himself a poet." Still there is much to be admired in the writings of Hogg, while in. his life he exhibits one of the finest examples on record of an honest, industrious and perse vering man. Allan Cunningham wrote a number of good Bongs, such as " Sho's Gone to Dwell in Heaven," and " A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea." The woll knovvn "Jeanie Morrison" was produced by William Motherwell, and "We are Brethren a' " by Robert Nicoll, both songs showing in the writers the possession of the "faculty divine," Sir Walter Scott was tho author of "Jock o' Hazeldean," and poor Willie Thpm of tha " Mitherless Bairn." •

In thinking of Scotland, how Aver, we naturally tiura to, Robert Buxnsi Spotland's beat lyrical.,poet. Burns, taught in his songs that love Is "divine, Wai genius th 16 respecter of persons,, but frequently dwells in the peasant's honoysuckled cottage in preference to the stately palace of the prince. Burns showed that greatness of soul and godlike intellect may bo as sociated oven with the humble toils of a ploughman, and may make the daisied path of the honest labourer resplendent with gleams of heavenly lustre. Burns was the concentration of the song-genius of his country. In poetry he was eminently Scottish, but in moral sentiment he was universal. His patriotism as embodied in " Scots Wha Hao," his conception of manly worth in " A Man's a Man for a' That," his love of external nature, his sympathy for dumb creatures*; and his love breathings in " Bonnie Jean," " Highland Mary," and a hundred other of his Deautiful songs, pro claim the universality of the writings of Burns. His musical notes have reached earth's remotest shores. His song-power could not be limited to Scotland's storied isles, or bounded by the Tweed, nor is it, by hereditary or legal right, the solo pro perty of the Burns Club. " For doth not sons To the whole world belong 1 Is it not given wherever tears can fall, Wherever hearts can melt, or blushes glow.

Or mirth or sadness-mingle as they flow, % A heritage for all?"

THE POISON OAK OF CALI FORNIA.

In California, U. 8., there grows a shrub, called by botanists Rhus divcrsiloba, which is poisonous by contact with any part of the surface of the human body, and by the inhalation of its aroma. Persons

very sensitive to its miasma may even be poisoned at some distance from the shrub, if to iweward of ify when the wind is blowing from the shrub -towards them. The individuals most usually susceptible to th&poiponioak arelighfc or brown-hairedj of fair complexion and slender build, generally with a rather thin skin. The symptoms of poisoning consist of an erup tion of pimples which itch very much, and develop into small vesicles, commonly known as blebs. As the eruption comes out most) thickly upon the face, neck, and hands, the fair sex are particu larly careful to avoid exposure to the baleful atmosphere of this shrub. In California, therefore, before being in vited to a picnic in the country, the young lady is asked " Do you poison ?"—a query rather startling to the unsophisticated stranger, but which means nothing more than, " Are you susceptible to-the poison oak ?" Those who are generally decline the picnic, for in the spring and summer the poisonous exhalations are most virulent. Dr. J. M. Moore investigated three promi nent cases of poisoning by this shrub when he was resident in California* and brought some of th« dried leaves honie to England. These leaves are some what like oak-leaves in shape, in colour of a glossy green above, and a dull pale green below. After the month of July the leaves turn a dark red, mottled with yellow. The fruit is a red berry,sometimes eaten by children with injurious results. The poisoning effects are scarcely ever fatal, but give rise in some persons to a chronically recurrent eruption which breaks put every spring or summer for years. Homcßopathic physicians take a peculiar interest in these phenomena because, acting upon the law (of wide application) aimUia eimilibus cwen tw, the Rhus diversiloba may prove to be a most efficacious remedy for acute eczema and for erysipelas, in very minute doses. Tommy came, home from school and handed to his father the teacher's report on his progress during the month. "This is very unsatisfactory, Tom; you've a very small number of good marks. I'm not at all pleased with it." "I told the teacher

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Collis Browne's Chlorodyne' on tho Govern roenfatamp. Overwhelming medical testimony accompanies each bottle. , T ... ~ Cautlon.-Beware of Piracy andJmitations. o Solo Manufacturer-^. T. DAVENPORT, 33, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. London. MY medical experience satisfies me that , .Wolfe's Schnapps is; an excellen Stimulant. i „



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