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A LADY LOST ON THE SOUTII DOWNS.—A very
y belonging distressingin
Worthing,
this
locality.
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huts inAst
labanedee_e; a s occurred during tha past week
for somegmg to a family resident in
l autni ot
until
.time labouring under
mental depression, left her home on
olednesday, as it was
particular notice was
evening circumstance m somestancree
stakenuppo supposed,
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when it was found that the lady did notgret began to set in,
mes-
senger went in search of her. The family wt
usrn, and a
uch alarmed
at learning that she had not been seen at the much
where it
was supposed she had gone, and the town was ) ransacked to
ind her. No information could be gleaned for a
until it was learned that a person ans o. vidpiu the
description
the cription
of the unhappy lady had been trace. to 'Ciasbur
the chain of hills forming the South Downs. Search
of
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made in that direction during the whole of the night, but
unsuccessfully. Her two brothers were.telegraphed from
London, and they went in pursuit of their sister over the
downs, but still without finding any traces of the lost one.
Information was then given to the superintending constable
at Worthing, who with great alacrity collected all the avail-
able men he could under him, and started in search.
During the whole of the night the poor lady and her pur-
suers remained on the hills, or about in that locality, with-
out meeting with each other ; and on Friday a strange
woman, in passing a pond in Rustington, about eight miles
from Worthing, saw the poor creature lying in.an exhausted
state at the waters edge, her clothes being saturated with
water. The unhappy lady had been wandering about the
district in a deranged state for two days and two nights
without food or shelter. Information was then given to
Superintendent Bray, of Littlehampton, and she was soon
restored to her distressed friends, but in a post emaciated
ecladitiou.—lVelt ASueee.7; Gazette.

The adjourned conference on singing in schools,
which was convened by the Tonic Sol-Fa Associa-
tion, and the first meeting of which took place on
the 20th ult., re-assembled yesterday evening, at
the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion, 165, Aldersgat2-street. W. E. Hickson, of
Fairseat, Kent, again presided.
The CHAIRMAN, in openmg. the proceedings, re-
minded the conference that before the adjournment
took place Mr. Tilleard moved a resolution the
consideration of which -was postponed. That reso-
lution was, he remarked, as follows :—" That in the
opinionof this conference all methods which aim at
usefulness in schools should possess the following
qualifications : They should be scientifically truth-
ful ; they should be progressive, always proceeding
from the less to the more difficult, introducing new
topics in such a manner as to sustain a freshness of
interest, and enabling the teacher to take one
truth at a time, and to assist his pupils in discover-
ino. it. The lessons and exercises 'shonld be in
themselves attractive, such as will, for their own
sake, be loved and remembered by a child. Such
methods should also be easy to teach, making small
demands upon either the physical pOwers of the
teacher or the invaluable time of the schools."
Mr. TILLEARD, in renewing the foregoing reso-
lution, re-stated his views with regard to some of
the fundamental .principles• on which music should
be taught in schools. He then went on to observe,
that in the teaching of music; as 'in the teaching Of
any other art, there should, in his opinion, be the
use of a known and recognised terminology. Some
years ago children used to hear at school of back-
boned animals ; but it was afterwards found
that such terms woultt .Not serve the purpose,
and , that for' " backboned" must be substi-
tuted " vertebrate." Let them apply this
to music. " A major third," or " a minor third,"
was not, after all, a very difficult expression to
learn ; and he maintained that the terms now
recognised throughout the musical world were
essential to proper musical instruction. A pupil
under the tonic sol-fa system, if his knowledge did
not extend beyond that system, would be unable
to converse with musical persons generally on musi-
cal subjects • and it was very desirable that all
should speak the same language. (Hear, hear.)
The chairman could only have been joking when
he told them on the last occasion that all roads,
that .is, all methods of teaching music, led to the
same point. There could only be one straight line
between two given points ; and the very fact that
so many persons had assembled twice to discuss the
question of method showed that in their estimation
method was a very serious matter. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. AIYERS, in seconding the resolution, said he
was not a convert yet to the tonic sol-fa system,
but he was willing to adopt any portion of it which
might appear to him to be useful.
The resolution was then put and carried unani-
mously.
The Rev. J. CURWEN then moved the following
series of resolutions :

"1. That, in accordance with the opinions just
approved by the conference, no system of teaching
to sing can be a good one which does not accustom
its pupils to measure intervals from the tonic or
key-note. Hence the failure of Mr. Hullah's
method.
"2, That the chief difficulty of carrying out
this tonic principle arises from the frequency of
modulation, or change of key, in the higher
styles of music ; that this difficulty appears al-
most insuperable when the pupil of such methods
as Mr. Hately's of Edinburgh, Mr. Jackson's of
Bradford, or' Mr. Turner's of London (which are all
confined to the established notation) wishes to sing
classic music at first sight—such a pupil being
obliged, then, to leave tonic solfaing and have re-
course to what may be called chromatic solfaing.
That the tonic sol-fa system of interpreting the keys
(in this kind of music), and expressing them in a
new notation, is to be regarded; at present, only as
an experiment ; but that this difficulty of a tonic
method is confined to the higher style of music,
and need not give any anxiety to the school teacher.
"3. That, as in all good teaching the sign should
be regarded as entirely subordinate to that which
it signifies (the object of the instructor being to
teach the thing itself, and only subordinately the
marks or names by which it is known), it is not
teacher-like' -to object to the methods of Nageli,
Natorp, Waldmann,Muller, Schade, Auberlin, Gall,
Bryce, Jeu de Berneval, Cheve, or Miss Glover, that
they have employed some new notation (of figures,
symbols, or letters)in order' to attract the exclusive,
attention of their pupils to the great principle of
key-relationship in their early lessons on interval ;
if it can be shown that the pupils do learn the thing
music more truthfully or more quickly, or obtain
music at a very much cheaper rate, and therefore
more abundantly, by the help of these new nota-
tions than without them. This conference, how-
ever, recommends that those school teacher's who
adopt new notations for this purpose should not
neglect to introduce the pupils of their higher
classes to that notation of music which is now
established in general use throughout the world."
Mr. GooDellimo, of the British Schools, Stock-
port, seconded the resolution, obServing that he
had become a convert from the old notation to the
tonic soi•fa notation.
Mr. G. W. MARTIN then rose to reply to Mr.
Curwen. That gentleman had, he said, referred to
his own remarks respecting sinning by ear. Every
sensible teacher would begin by teaching the pupils
to sing by ear. They must cultivate the ear before
they hegan to cultivate the eye, and if the ear was
bad, they must endeavour to improve it. Great
credit was claimed for the teaching of key relation-
ship by the tonic sol-fa system. What teacher cf
music would ever neglect to teachkey relationship ?
(Hear, hear.) It formed part of all (rood teaching.
As regarded the syllables, he admitted that if they
were taught at all, the moveable " doh" of the
tonic sol-fa system was preferable to the other ; but
he maintained that the syllables were useless, and,
more than that, actually in the way. He still
maintained that the old notation was the best when
properly taught. To this extent he presumed Mr.
Curwen and himself agreed, that they must culti-
vate the relationship, and that the first note of the
scale was the principal note. Mr. Curwen admitted
that there were many difficult passages which the
very best musicians could not sol-fa, and if the sol-
fa system were right they would be able to do so.
Some of the modulations in Israel in Egypt" were
so rapid that it was impossible to sol-fa them.
Mr. CURWEN-At sight.
Mr. MARTIN—WeII, they were talking about
singing at sight. They, had been told of new
systems of notation in Germany and in France
as well as in this country. The tendency of all
this novelty was completely to destroy the univer-
sality of musical language, and it was a serious
question for the conference whether it should not
set its face against the absurdity of introducing a
number of notations. The difference in the cost of
music, which was now so cheap in the old notation,
was not so important as community of language.
Children could now get as much for a penny of the
old notation as to last them a month. (Cries of
"No, no.") Mr. Martin concluded with an elabo-
rate, scientific comparison of the merits of the old
notation with those of the new with the practical
aid of the blackboard and of the voices of his
audience.
Mr. CRAMPTON, of the Borough-road Schools,
viewed the tonic sol-fa system as a capital intro-
duction to a knowledge of the scale. Lines and
notes no more represented music in themselves than
syllables represented it—it was only by common
agreement that they served that purpose. The key
was not established by any note, but by the accom-
panying harmony of that note. [The speaker here
illustrated his meaning by means of notes on the
blackboard.] The cheapness of music depended, he
believed, chiefly on the demand. The " Messiah"
might now be had for ls.—[A Voice—No, ls. 4d.]
—and if the demand increased, the price would be
quite low enough with the old notation. He re-
garded the tonic sol-fa system as a valuable intro-
duction to harmony, but he thought that when
harmony came in the sooner that system was aban-
doned the better. _ _

Mr. ROBERTS thought the tonic sol-fa system
had not been dealt with fairly. If the question was
what vessel was best adapted for the Australian
service, they would all inquire which had performed
the voyage hitherto in the shortest time ; and
having tried other systems before trying Mr. Cur-
wen's, he had no hesitation in saying that the latter
was the only one from which he could obtain satis-
factory results. (Hear, hear.) When he tried Mr.
Hullab's system he found that very few boys could
learn to sing under it. He had now 250 learning
to sing on the tonic sol-fa system, and of these, 150
could sing a moderately difficult tune at first sight.
(Hear, hear.) He denied that the old notation was
the musical language of the world, it was the lan-
guage of a select few. ; only a very small per cent-
age of the world had yet learnt to sing. (Hear,
hear.) It was an important fact that a great deal
of the best classical music was already found in the
tonic sol-fa notation, including Handel's " Afessidh."
Hadyn's " Creation," Romberg's " Song of the Bell,"
Mendelssohn's " As the heart parts," Caleott's

Mr. BENNET said, having taught music for 15 or
16 years on the old system, and having recently
made use, to some extent, of the tonic sol-fa system,
he wished to know how it was that the notation
of the latter was so powerless that it could not go
into the very first relative major key, the simplest
of all modulations, without doing violence to itself?
Mr. CI RWEN said he had purposely avoided
giving anything like a lecture that evening, but
the question was very easily answered. If the
gentleman who had put it was acquainted with the
system, he would know that the use of " tu" and
" soh" was a condescension to the old system. The
power of getting into any key was of the essence
of the tonic sol-fa system.
Mr. LLNE bore testimony to the rapid progress
of pupils in his school under Mr. Curwen's system.
Mr. RUNTZ, superintendent of the Birkbeck
Schools, said, having for a long time talked against
the tonic sol-fa system, he determmed'at length to
try it, and he was now prepared to testify., as the
result of experience, that for teaching children to
sing rapidly at sight there was no method like Mr.
Curwen's. (Cheers.)
After a few general remarks from the Chairman,
the resolutions were put and carried, there being
only about six dissentients. Thanks were voted to
the Chairman, and. the conference then separated.