Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23

are 10 % 1nnuenceQ by Cnr1Stan 1nSulUutlOuS
Carleton College, at Mortified, is overfowingly
full. The ladies' Hal, just completed, furn-
| ishes only part of the room needed. Nor are
| the other buildings, which it was supposed
would be ample for fifteen or twenty years, suf-
! 6ciently large for the demands now ma % upon
! them. The institution is in good hands. and is
worthy the gifts of the benevolent, and especial
! ly of those who believe in Christian education
! The following statement in regard to
the History of music" enbodies hints of
! peculiar merit;
''nlusic in England.' aud ssMusic in Amer
| ica,'' by DR.. Frederic Louis Ritter, are two
companion volumes just issued by Charles
Scrbner's Sons. 1t is peculiar fact that the
| Sc ODD of these works was planned first, but
| according to the doctrine of growth and devo-
| lopment, work upon music in England be-
came prime necessity. a now printed the
TWO volumes complete each other logically
MUSIC II England presents little that is new
In comment or information, except the ideas ad-
vanced in the chapter upon ''the English Bal
lad and the Georgian Chant" which the author
| can justly claim as novelty. As the question
| OF appropriate church music is warmly discussed
| by many English and American clergyman, the
eie>A AiiolSiiOoi OApoo1tAou VI ulueI6uG
attitudes of various sects upon the music
question to be found IN some of the later chept-
els Will also be welcomed by many readers. 1t
IS in Music in America that Dr. Ritter strikes
into a moro congenial vein, and proves himself
| a master. 1t is in this work that we find a rea-
son for the lack of detail that impressed us 30
peculiarly In the first volume. The first work
gave aconclse story of cause, development and
results, and as it is intended for American read
ers, treats only of matter pertaining directly to
the later and more local work. DR.. Ritter
| divides the American musical record into six
| periods Puritan Psaimody, 16Z0-71; First
| American Composers, l77I-lol5; Establishment
of Boston Handel and Haydn society, i8l5-25,
Introduction of Italian Opera, 1925 Al; Establ-
| ishment of New York Philharmonic Society,
| io41-6i, and Civil War, lSSl-80. There Is also
| an appendix, in which many interesting examples
are given, illustrative of the develo oment noted
| in the various periods.
In the town of Springfield, O., there
lives young girl who is and of right
| ought to be mulatto, but the color of
| whose skin is constantly changing from
deep brown to a snowy white and back
again to lis original hue. The Springfield
| Globe which describes this strange phe-
nomenon, Is precise enough to say that
she lives at No. 1O7 Scott street, and is
| the daughter of we'll to do drayman
| named James Keemer. The transition is
| not effected by slow process Of uniform
! fading, but by the appearance of success
i've white spots which finally monopolize
the entire surface. It follows that at Ger
tain stages of this transformation the
girl presents an exceedingly striking as
poet. Thus the reporter of the Globe,
who YVES recently admitted to an inspec
| ton of the phenomenan, remarks: Every
often the nelghbors BAY they are accus-
| toned to seeing tho child run about during
! the warm weather with one foot and ankle
| as dark as any little colored girls need be,
| and the other as white as that of the fair
| est lady III the land. Frequently one
| hand Is dark muiatto color, while the other
will be spotlessly white and almost trans
| parent. Often the child's face will be en-
| tirely white but the eyelIds, they retaining
| their original color. When she closes her
eyes the effect Is striking. Quite as often,
the face will be entirely brown and the
eyellds alone white, giving the girl an
unearthly appearance when the lids are
down." If Mr.. Barnum is wise he will re-
| iinqulsh his ambition to possess a white
elephant and secure instead a spotted
| attraction which would cause every leopard
III his show to blush for shame.