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Rh the manner in which he was received, we refer to the following contemporaneous notices and criticisms:—

In an article in 'L'Agent Dramatique,' of Toulouse, 8 June, 1851, Mr. Barthélemon, from Bordeaux, under date of 31 May, says:—

Enthusiasm carries us away. Figure to yourself a pale young man, with regular features, and such hands as are seldom made. It is Gottschalk. Gottschalk is one of those élite organizations who make their souls pass into a piano-case and then come out again by striking on the key-board. Talent more pure and more brilliant never charmed our ear; the audacity and thunder of Liszt are tempered in him with the melodious sentiments of the German masters. His elegant compositions acquire under his fingers a graca which cannot be described.