The Royal Music-Master 115 The Handsome Minstrel 115 The Daisy Lady 116 The Invisible Flute-Player 118 The Banished Musician 119 The Walriderske 120 The Jew in the Thicket 122 The Pope's Wife 126 The Two Hunchbacks 128 The Parson's Advice 132 Relics of the Goblins 133 The Golden Harvest 135 Gipsies 137 The Nautch-People 139 The Monk of Afflighem 141 The Plague in Goldberg 142 Fictions and Facts 145 DRAMATIC MUSIC OF UNCIVILIZED RACES 147 A SHORT SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF MUSIC 171 CHRONOLOGY OF THE HISTORY OF MUSIC 179 THE MUSICAL SCALES IN USE AT THE PRESENT DAY 228 [Illustration] MATTHESON ON HANDEL. The biographical notices of Handel's youth transmitted to us are but scanty and unsatisfactory. The same might, however, be said of most of our celebrated musicians, and the cause of the meagreness is, as we have seen in another place, easily explicable.[1] Of Handel's musical pursuits before his arrival in Hamburg, at the age of eighteen, we know scarcely more than that he was a pupil of Zachau, an organist at Halle, where Handel was born; that, as a boy, he paid a short visit to Berlin, where his talent attracted some attention; and that subsequently he studied Law, at the University of Halle. The latter fact indicates that the choice of music as a profession was not hastily determined in his childhood; and this surmise accords with the stated reluctance of his father, a medical practitioner in Halle, to have his son brought up as a musician.