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LETTER IV.
(THREE MONTHS LATER.)
ON EXPRESSION, AND GRACES OR EMBELLISHMENTS.
Have I not already told you, my industrious little girl, that the zealous practice of all the finger-exercises, and the quickly studying of a good many musical pieces, would soon bring you very forward? You write to me that your fingers have already acquired very considerable facility and certainty; that you now begin to study pieces of more importance, development, and difficulty; that you are already able to play, at sight, many short, easy movements, intelligibly and without stopping; and that even keys, with a good many sharps or flats, do not easily confuse you. Allow me, Miss, to assure you that I did not expect less from your industry and talent, and from the well-directed endeavours of your very respectable teacher.
You are now arrived at the epoch where the art begins to proffer you true, noble, and intellectual pleasures, and in which the new and continually more and more beautiful composi-
