MUSICIANS WHO HAVE DIED AWAY

Through the instrumentality of some members of this class, a successful effort was made to introduce to the Parisians an old opera, Isola d'Amore, composed by Sacchini in Rome, and now furnished with French words. The approbation bestowed on the work, must be really only a play interspersed with songs, attributed solely to the music, as the literary portion was several degrees beneath mediocrity.