Note 49 — HINTS TO LEADERS AND CONDUCTORS.

The practice of beating time with the bow was introduced into this country by M. Spohr, and he, being a great musician as well as leader, has been, of course, imitated, for we are most industrious imitators of what is foreign: and, in truth, quackery is so much the order of the day, that without a due share of it success is hardly to be hoped for. How many small persons, singers, soi-disant composers, &c., are now-a-days raised to something like importance by grossly open as well as artful and disguised charlatanerie and puffing!—(Editor.)