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Music from the South.                   \\J
As we draw towards our own time, examples multiply by the thousand : to be found, for instance, in Boieldieu's overture to 'The Caliph of Bagdad,' or Perton's to 'Aline,' by scores in the operas of M. Auber. To conclude this train of speculation, I cannot do better than cite an example of monotony and piquancy, in their most graceful and exquisite union, from 'L'Ambassadrice,' by M. Auber, the patriarch of modern French composers.