TIM E -KILLERS.
DE BEGN IS, in the announcement of his concert, which took place on Monday, promised a duet by Madame DE MEnic and himself, of which ho stated—
"This duet is composed of 164 bars, and of more than 600 words, and will be sung by them in the short space of 4 minutes."
The brief space of time in which a long duet may be despatched, is doubtless a recommendation. Why is it that the idlest people are always in the greatest hurry ? If the time of any people on earth is of small value, it is that of the audience at a morning concert; and yet Ds BEoras makes as much, in this advertisement., of saving iminute or two in a duet, as if time were made for any thing but to be killed. But it is always so : the man who rides or walks against time—the persons who are always endeavouring to do something or other in less time than anybody else—are almost invariably those on whose hands time hangs heaviest, and who, on the contrary, instead of despatching the little they have to do in haste, should contrive to eke things out, and to exhaust their ingenuity in making events last as long as possible—occupy as much of the span of life as may be—and thus stretch their little matters over a great deal of existence.
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