From the Gentleman's Magazine.
TIE LEARNED OUNCE.
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II went some time since, in company
with an intimate friend, to a soiree, held
some distance from Paris, at the house of
a mutual friend lately married. When
we entered, three ladies were in the act
of executing trio. The husband intro
duced us to his wife, pretty looking per-
sonage, to whom | expressed my regret
that l had not been able to pay my res
poets earlier.


Il must scold your husband for keep
ing you SO secluded from the world, 4"
said I.


, cit is true, monsieur, that we lead a
very retired life; but love solitude, for
indeed the gay world hath but little charms
isy. me-"


| looked at my friend who said, in low
aohe, ':1Ais is woman of genius


IF | mistake not, we have missed some
efy fine music"


"You have, indeed, gentlemen; YOU
have missed an exquisite trio of Beeiho-
ven's. Oh, what genius was Beetho-
ven! What soul! How mystical in his
harmony! How his modulations seem to
embody themselves with each other, and
to plunge the soul into strange reveries. "


My friend looked at me with astonish-
ment.


"This woman is indeed genius" said
|, in low tone.


"No? Germany has not produced
Beethoven's equal, " continued the lady.


Madame forgets Mozart and Weber"


"Were they German composers ,"


| was supplied. How! she knows
Beethoven, and -.


A very animated discussion carried on