to soar.

bad, and often is. There is an infinite variety of moods which admit of being expressed, from the noble, aspiring, human sincerity of a great nature like Brahms', to the rank, impudent, false sentimentality of impostors who shall be nameless. The unfortunate art may be made to grovel and wallow as well as A man may use slender resources to very good ends, and great resources to very bad ones. It rests with a very wide public now to decide what the future of the art shall be; and if its members can understand a little of what music means and how it came to be what it is, perhaps it may tend to encourage sincerity in the composer, and to enable themselves to arrive at an attitude which is not too open to be imposed upon by those who have other ends in view than honouring and enriching their art.

If the art is worthy of the dignity of human devotion, it is worth considering a little seriously, without depreciating in the least the lighter pleasures to which it may mirister. If it is to be a mere toy and trifle, it would be better to have no more to do with it. But what the spirit of man has laboured at for so many centuries cannot only be a mere plaything. The marvellous concentration of faculties towards the achieve. ment of such ends as actually exist, must of itself be enough to give the product human interest. Moreover, though a man's life may not be prolonged, it may be widened and deepened by what he puts into it; and any possibility of getting into touch with those highest moments in art in which great ideals were realised, in which noble aspirations and noble sentiments have been successfully embodied, is a chance of enriching human experience in the noblest manner: and through such sympathies and interests the humanising influences which mankind will hereafter have at its disposal may be infinitely enlarged.

Note to pp. 49 and 51.

The brilliant idea of phonographing the tunes of savage and semicivilised races seems to offer such opportunities of getting at the real facts of primitive and barbarous music as have never before been available for the investigation of such subjects. It has been put into practice

by a Mr. J. W. Fewkes to record the tunes of the Zuni Indians of the southern states of North America, and the results have been published in the "Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology," vol. i.

Several tunes are given, and some of them afford happy illustrations of the uncertainty of savage intonation referred to on p. 49, and also of the singularly unsystematic manner in which the savages reiterate the characteristic intervals or musical figures which have taken their fancy.

The following is an approximate record of one of their curious tunes, which is stated to have been considerably irregular in the details of pitch and intonation :