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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1669, 6 May 1874, Page 3

■> , ,D '-: —t fl Knowledge i* Poweb. —'•What an idiot I was," cried a housemaid who had ■just tak;enia new place, "'not to learn to read when I was a gal! Why, master and missus leave all their letters about! Mill's love of Mjjsic—The only one of the imaginative arts in which I had from childhood taken great pleasure was music, the best effect orf which (and in this it sur. passes perhaps every other art) consists in exciting enthusiasm —in winding up to a high pitch^ those - feelings of an derated kind?wnich are already in the characterrtfut to which'this-excitement gives a glow and a'fervour, which, though transitorrat tftfittmost height; is precious for sustaining: them at times. This effectofmusiclha'doftenexperienced^but, lik;e all 'myv'ple^surable susceptibilities, it' was suspended during the gloomy period. I had nought relief "again and again from this quarter, but found none. After the tidejhad turned, and I was in process of recovery,nlrhad been* helped forward by music, Butiira muchjess'elerated manner.I at this became acquainted with Weber's "Oberon," and the extreme pleasure Which I drewtfitonyitjs-Tdelicious melodiep did me, good, by snowing rosy, source!of pleasure, to which I was as susceptible as" ever. The good, however^'was-much? impaired by the thought that the pleasure of music (as is^qtti^tfrie ofisuch' pleasure.as this was, tliatQJf mere tune)- ffades~ with familiarity, and requires either to-be 1 revived by iniermittence/or fed by continual npvelty.— "Autobiography." rßy John Stuart Mill/ •' f 4 '