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(To be continued)

TO H E KREHBIEL

NEW ORLEANS, February, 1884

DEAR KREHBIEL,--Please don't let e you to write when you have little tiives you pleasure and kills time Never mind if I take a temporary notion to write every day--you know I don't mean to be unreasonable

Now, as I have your postal card I'll cease the publication of inary musical library, and will reserve that exquisite torture for some future occasion when I shall think you have treated es I'll go to New York, and hope you'll be able--say in April--to give -time

I'm afraid, however, I shall have to leave my Ideas behind me I know I could never squeeze thee Furtherht run over my Ideas and hurt them In fact, 't is only in the vast swas is even as the roar of a thousand waters, that hted reat deal that is completely new to me therein By the way, have you noticed the very curious looking harps of the Niam-Niams in Schweinfurth? They seem to lad ood care of the proof

Every tiy of the banjo is a very interesting thing; perhaps Ifresh on the subject some day

Yours enthusiastically, L HEARN

I know you would not care to hear about ”the thousand different instru Solomon on the day he married her,” because the names of the instruments and the melodies which were perforypt which the daughter of Pharaoh taught Solootten Yet, by the Kabbalistic rules of Geht they not be exhumed?

In treatise Shekalim of Seder Mo'ed of the Talmud of Jerusalerus ben Levi, who directed the singing in the temple, ”knew a vast number ofthe his thumb into his mouth he produced many and various sorts of chants, so that his brethren, the Cohanim, were utterly amazed thereat_”

Hast read in Chap XII of the Treatise Shabbat (Seder Mo'ed) concerning that lost Hebrew musical instrument, unlike any other instrument known in the history of mankind?

TO HE KREHBIEL

NEW ORLEANS, March, 1884

DEAR KREHBIEL,--I was quite glad to get your short letter, knowing how busy you are Johnson changed his mind about Havana, as the season there has been very unhealthy; and for the tiard to the Spanish-Creole music But it is only a question of a little while when I shall get it I sent you the other day soed forof the refrain, I think you ought to find it scientifically treated in Herbert Spencer's ”Sociology;” for in that giant su to the arts of life is considered coot it: indeed I could not afford so immense a series as a mere work of reference, and life is too short But you can easily refer to it in your public libraries This re Tylor--the si to a Greek chorus at Sparta,--at least, the construction thereof You re men, and boys:--

(OLD MEN) ”We once were stalwart youths”

(YOUNG MEN) ”We are: if thou likest, test our strength”

(BOYS) ”We shall be, and far better too!”

Now Tylor quotes this Australian chant:--