TOULOUSE.
The concert of the celebrated M. Field has been a remarkable event for this city. All the best society of the town assembled at the Saloon of the Athenæum on this occasion, and, accustomed to hear only those pianists who delight in noise and absurd tricks, were as much surprised as charmed by the ease with which M. Field executed the most difficult and the most delicate passages.
M. Field is a disciple of the true piano forte school; Clementi was his master; and this is the school which must generally influence public taste. The love of novelty will now and then recommend sleight-of-hand tricks, but what is really good will always ultimately prevail, and never can be wholly neglected.