Two Voices Only.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 337, 26 January 1889, Page 3

Two Voices Only.

'Do you really love me?' he asked, as he benb down and kissed hex" white forehead. k You know I do,' she answered in a low voice. That was all they said, I suppose, bub it was quite enough. When a man and a woman have told each other of their love, there is little more to say. They probably say ib again, and repeat ib in different keys and with different modulations. I can imagine that a man in love might find many pretty expressions, bub the gisb of the thing is the same. Model conversation as follows, in fugue form, for two voices :—: — He. —l love you. Do you love me? (Theme.) She. — Very much. I love you more than you love me. (Answer.) He. — No, I love you most. (Sub-theme.) She. — Not more. That is impossible. (Sub-answer. ) He and She. — Then we love each other very much. (A due voci.) She. — Yes. Bub I am not sure that yon can love me as much as ]Tdo you. (Strette. ) Etc., ebc. , etc. By using these simple themes you may easily wiibe a series of conversations in at least twenty-four keys, on the principle of Bach's Wohltemperiries Klavier, bub your fugues must be composed for two voices only.

An Artistic Fan. — The Queen Regent is about to send to the Duchess of Edinburgh, as a souvenir of her visits to Barcelona and Madrid, a fan that is a truly royal present. It is made of tortoiseshell, with the monogram of the Queen Regent in brilliants and rubies. But its chief value is in the paintings done on it by the Spanish artist Melida. There aie six pictures on the fan — three on each side. The first set represents two sailors, one English and the other Spanish, hoisting their respective colours from a Spanish balcony ; a view of the harbour of Barcelona j and a most delicate representation of an old Gothio wwvunent that the Queen and the Duress, visited together. The other side 05 tho fan has the coat-of-arms of the Duchess, an Andalusian ghlather balcony, and a Cord obese bandit — an allusion, perhaps, to the robbery of which the Duchess was tho \ iotini during her voyage from Cordova, to Granada. Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, refused to repiieve the two lads who brutally, murdered an-overseer at Tunbridge 'Wells, and they were executed, being repentant at the last. ' ! Addington Emigration Barracks is to be converted infco a general asylum i for imbecile, .cases for, the whole' colony, and* placed in, charge of Mr E.> W. Se'ager, for-; morly the manager at J SunnysideV - "