The former bears good fruits, the latter very doubtful ones.

I will say nothing about the stand-point of those egotistical teachers whose first aim is to bring themselves into prominence, and who at the same time are perhaps travelling public performers and composers.

They are, it may be, chiefly occupied with double and triple fugues (the more inverted the more learned), and they consider this knowledge the only correct musical foundation.

At the same time, they often possess a touch like that of your brother, Mr.Strict, mentioned in my third chapter, and are utterly devoid of true taste and feeling.

While pursuing their fruitless piano lessons, which are quite foreign to their customary train of thought, they regard their occupation only as a milch cow; and they obtain the money of sanguine parents, and sacrifice the time of their pupils.