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methods, will still give expression to the national charac- 

 teristics ; for, although we have it on the authority of 

 Rossini that there are but two schools of music, the good 

 and the bad, yet most of us are strongly inclined to believe 

 in the possibility of founding a British School which shall, 

 despite the cosmopolitanism of music, faithfully reflect the 

 national character, and be imbued with a national individu- 

 ality — something less profound than German, more dignified 

 than French, and more solid than what Italian art has given 

 to the world. Three hundred years ago we were the foremost 

 musical country in Christendom, and we take satisfaction in 

 the truism that history repeats itself. 



