He comes to life――for Jullien all have sung; The name of Jullien is on every tongue. The boxes and the pit, Both they who stand and sit; With Jullien’s name the entire house has rung. Music the greatest brute can charm, And savage natures will disarm. Music can find luxurious ease, Making what bargain it may please. A salary it can improve To any sum that it may love. This the delightful Lind has found, And to the tune of fifteen thousand pound. When the full house enjoys the Swedish bird, E’en Fashion deigns to lend its ear, So eager ’t is to catch each little word, That were a pin to drop it must be heard; And people come from far as well as near! Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell, For Jenny Lind may boast with greater reason: His numbers he for gold could never sell―― She makes her fortune in a season! From _George Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack for 1848_. ――――:o:―――― In 1749 Bonnell Thornton published a humorous burlesque upon the Cecilian odes, under the title of “An Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, adapted to the Ancient British Musick,” which is said to have been set to music with characteristic accompaniments by Dr. Arne, and performed on the Saint’s day, November 22, 1749. This appears somewhat doubtful, it was however set to music in 1759 by Dr. Burney, who has left the following account of his work and its performance: “In 1759 I set for Smart and Newbery, Thornton’s Burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day. It was performed at Ranelagh in masks, to a very crowded audience, as I was told, for I then resided in Norfolk. Beard sang the Salt-box song, which was admirably accompanied on that instrument by Brent, the fencing master, and father of Miss Brent, the celebrated singer; Skeggs on the broomstick as bassoon, and a remarkable performer on the Jew’s Harp, ‘Buzzing twangs the iron lyre.’ Cleavers were cast in bell metal for this entertainment. All the performers of the Old Woman’s oratory, employed by Foote, were, I believe, employed at Ranelagh on this occasion.” Boswell mentions that Dr. Johnson was much diverted with the humour of this ode. AN ODE ON SAINT CECILIA’S DAY. Adapted to the Antient British Musick: viz. The _Salt-Box_, the _Jew’s Harp_, the _Marrow-Bones_ and _Cleavers_, the _Hum-Strum_ or _Hurdy Gurdy_, etc. With an introduction, giving some account of these truly British Instruments. By BONNELL THORNTON, Esquire.