The sensibility and appreciation of beauty with the public is less prejudiced, less spurious, more receptive, and more artless.

Its perceptions are not disturbed by theories, by a desire to criticise, and many other secondary matters.

The public do not take a biassed or stilted view.

The admiration for Jenny Lind is a striking proof of this, as is also the appreciation of many piano-players.
* * * * * The age of progress announces, in piano-playing also, "a higher beauty" than has hitherto existed.

Now, I demand of all the defenders of this new style, wherein is this superior beauty supposed to consist?
It is useless to talk, in a vague way, about a beauty which no one can explain.