"Of all noises," said Dr. Johnson, I think music is the least disagreeable." That is very faint praise deed and it would by easy to find a dozen quotations from men as wise and as learned, though perhaps not as honest, as the great lexicographer, who would praise music fulsomely enough to satisfy the most or shore we shall. be all the better for it and live all the more happily in this mundane world where our lot is cast. As has been said this is a vision to be apprehended by the emotions, not to be measured and analyzed by the intellect, "I do not see these colours in the landscape," said the neophyte to the painter, "No," said the Master, "don't you wish you did?"
Take smother illustration. ardent lover of sweet sounds. It may not be strictly true that the|our.window we see fantastic When we look at the frost on self is fit for treasons, stret-not a jumble of higgedlysheath no music in him-shapes of ferns and flowers, ems and spoils, but it certainly is true that the man who has no ear for musie is deprived of the enjoyment of one of the purest pleasures earth can give, The small boy rattling a tin can and the savage beating his insistent tom-tom, till its monotonous beat drives the listener frantic, have a rudimentary craving for music. And the piggedly shapes but something exquisite in proportion and outline, These things are so because nature, the great artist that fashioned the grass of the field, fashioned also the fairy flowers of the frost king. The creations of a night correspond to a reality other than thenisel¥es. Or look at a snowflake through a microscope, We se2 aod, Rianning—only that she consumes of manu-[F, Mooney the presence of might live without food. bus {atyg and different Maestro, the master of music, that though there are many adherence to the con- factured goods, and Japan has leprosy. It is therefore not to} could not exist if deprived of every flake is a perfect and patterns, ception that not all Chinese) now reached " the stage in-|be @Pected that very much ean|the solace of his favourite beautiful geometrical figure. ire Chinese, but some are|dustrially in which she has to|¥@ done. instrument. The charm of music Cantonese and some come from export not only sundries an Yet is not the little that can is evident enough but if we seek course these wonderful patterns Foochow and Ningpo, and that piece-goods but - heavy machin-be done of infinite importance? were not woven by chance. The one should never treat all to analyze it we find ourselves ery, locomotives, cars, turbines,
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