Show willing to rest fame on one great success I 1 that the composition of can bo be profitable ablo when tile the work of the composer Is popular Is undeniable but tile few fortunes that have been made ni iila by composers generally have been beert started rather than built up iiii by the thai of their music rosini Is gerl generally supposed to have made a large larga fortune out of his operas but behim he ahlm self admitted that while he had nothing to complain about in this respect his wealth came rather from a number of successful speculations to which lie was introduced by ono one of the rothschild family it Is probable too that in his spec speculations if lations its as in alv music lie he knew when to stop when lie he had fi finished william tell and seen that it was a great success lie never attempted another opera though he lived nearly forty years longer when asked by an admirer why he ha did not try to repent repeat this success sj knowing his own limitations the chief of which was laziness lie he rep replied liedl why hunt the hare when you have bayt killed the elephant T r |