Ay, I'll be your bail that you would, and shaking in your shoes too! Plase
to leave me and my pupil alone: many a one will be coming to-morrow twenty
and thirty miles, every inch of it, to hear Master ---- sing, that would
not step out twenty yards to hear you prache."--_Ibid._

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CALCULATING NOTES.--PAGANINI.


Stephen Storace had a remarkably good head for figures. When a boy, his
passion for calculation was beyond all belief. Michael Kelly says, he has
been known to multiply four figures by four figures, by memory, in three
minutes. When young, Kelly tells us, Storace was so astonished that fifty
guineas should be paid for _singing a song_, that he counted the notes in
it, and calculated the amount of each at 4s. 10d.

This passion for calculating the value of notes (musical ones) has seized a
Parisian dilettante, who, according to the _Furet de Londres_, has been
fixing the price of every note and rest in certain pieces played by
Paganini recently, at a concert given at the Opera at Paris, which produced
him 16,500 francs. The following is the result:--He performed, during the
evening, three pieces, each occupying five pages of music, of about 91 bars
to the page. The fifteen pages thus contained 1,365 bars, by which the
16,500 francs are to be divided. The quotient will be 12 francs for each
bar, or the proportions will be as follows:--For a semibreve, 12f.; a minim
6f.; a crotchet, 3f.; a quaver, 1f. 50c.; a semiquaver, 15 sous; a
demisemiquaver, 7-1/2 sous. And, on the other hand, for a minim rest, 6f.;
a crotchet rest, 3f.; &c. There would still remain out of the 16,500