Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-27

handbooks by Messrs. Henderson and
krehbiel.
1t is always true that books about mus
lie are literature, not music. They are
read with interest by pe1sons who car
not tell Marching Through Georgia."
from the wedding March in Lohengrio.
1t is particularly true that books about
the history of music are a part of his
tory, rather than a part of music. Yet
While books about music are readable to
all, they are both readable and useful to
a certain extent technically to those OF
musical culture.
The history of music is we'll covered in
English by brief %treatises and by more
AMBITIOUS works. Two of the short es-
says have already been mentioned. ". s.
3. Mathews has written a book in two
volumes How to Understand Music.
Which is mostly history, but partly treat
Use. He has also given us a history of
the Art eff Music" and is the author of
other books, some confined to the history
OF music in America and others cover
ing a wider field.
Inc lives of the great composers and
other musical, personages are preserved
IN readable and accurate biographies. on
cyclopedias of music. the- are two that
uSStl We liltlN.lcl. drOteS 'i)lPfjAn9T v
of Music and Musicians is an old STAN
dard that will always be a favor.ta.
Champlin's encyclopedia of Muse ana
Musicians is a more modern work. Of
better Typographical appearance and less
given 10 technical details.
ATLAS CLUB.
The special subject under consideration
by the Atlas club at its next meeting is
the early history of New York, including
some consideration OF the Hudson river.
1t Is strange that with the commercial
supremacy which the Dutch colony has at
tanned, its history has ben less fully con-
sidered in general American histories
than have the records of Virginia ard
Massachusetts,. The influence of New
Netherlands was fully as great on ths
events OF colonial times, AM as effiea-
cious in the formation OF the American
type CT civilization as was that of any
sister colony. 1t has been as easy t,
learn Of the history, and while it has
been incorporated in every narrative Of
the United States, the perspective has
been sadly ignored.
Also one of the most brilliant writers
that have given fame to the Empire
state, innocently wrote a caricature of
It's early history, which many, even of
the pretended historians have taken for
veritaTtte fact. Observation-Disclosures History
of New York is an amusing book. as
we'll as being one OF the classics Of An1eli-
can literature. 1t is one of those books
that ought to be OF assistance in giving
a true conception Of the facts. For the
reader of such d book should investigate
the real record, and the very distortion
will impress the truth more strongly. But
while this ought to be the fact, and prob
ably Mr.. Irving thought that it would,
something went wrong, and the rigina
Dutch Immigrant has come down OF us
a gross, conceited, stupid figure, instead
of the lean, alert, intelligent and just
maj that he was.
Perhaps THE most thorough study of the
early history of New York from the
standpoint of the student of United
States history is Mr.. John Fiske's New
York and the Middle Colonies. Very i'm.
portant records are contained in the vol.
umes of the Half Moon Papers as the,
appear. These books are compiled b,
enthusiastic citizens of New York, all oil
whom have regulations as scholars an6
writers, and who constitute a sor. Of
New Netherlands historical society with
a very strong literary flavor. Miss Alice
Morse Earle, in her studies eft colonia
customs has devoted a volume to New
Netherlands from Sandy Hook to Albany
The Hudson is the Rhine of America
being more associated in our minds witt
conceptions of picturesque beauty, an.
endeared by associations of myth an,
legend than any other stream. In tn
case of the Hudson it Is probable tina
what Irving did to make it loved, wen
far to atone for the wrong he did t
the city that has outgrown the limit
of the island on which it's founder
sought to confine it. The best book de
voted to the Hudson is the volume b
Benson J.. Losing.
There are a few historical novels the
are good reading n contribute a rea
rican ~ Prevents sss.a + Dsnar sS% md Ssi SS i.ii