Note 104 — INTRODUCTION TO THE GALATEA.

Now best remembered, perhaps, by Giovanni Martini's setting of the romance—

Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment—

which, sung by that incomparable artist, Madame Pauline Viardot-Garcia (sister of Malibran, and wife of the well-known Spanish scholar, Louis Viardot), delighted our fathers and mothers. It may be worth noting that the song is assigned to the goatherd in Célestine: Nouvelle Espagnole. Readers of contemporary literature will remember the adaptation of the opening words by the Baron Desforges in M. Paul Bourget's Mensonges.