New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-03

entirely and one oay startled me with mimicry
/ ~ = publishers announcement. as follows.
! volun,. MONOGRAPH UPON THE popr-r..p
MELODIES or EXTINCT RACES. Pp. Viii
1 Volume MUSIC OF NoMAp RACES Intro
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lIi. The Turkish and Tartar Tribes W Central
Volume "MANTFEsrkT1oN OF crrv,-,c
INtLu b ~ N POPULAR MELODY. In two
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habitants Of Low Countries. With s.s5s e1-
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volume contains nearly 700 examples OF curious
Asbia Polynesa Africa and many %Ser s nsrt.
Volume .L.-MIsIC OF THE DANCE IN THE
9 piIE Pp $50 Chapter I. The Mussulman
eislly % me Krishna ana sivaite sects With
10 exquisite pls'ss CHAPTER Ill Examples Of
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81 photo e6srsviass Chapter = @hinese psn nSn
ing Melodies with 8 photo ensravings Chap.
Dancing Girls With 50 beautiful colored plates
Si, Musi IemSIs o sn9 SSeoIsah psness
With g plates, chapter. viii. Oriental War
volgme vII.HTHE WEIRD IL SAVAGE MUSIC
oSne m hif Hsr siTus oF sAoR RREe Ns
TUE oCClnENTALs INDIES. Part I. Franco
Ra r. s psnss sRa s muse ana ps Ss isdT
~ Its FORMATION With $50 examples Of Ha-
volumes N. \. NI.-MELoDIEs OF AFRICAN
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sople;e description Of al African musical
s kp2Mn' llaS1ta i wa ~ numerous
voams RST zflSRs OF SNrgouE
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s s, ,. OF MsicAd Ey0dI9NlIsT rs
search. r. is now possible 10 reconstruct lost
10 afrn, TIE exisenc@ Of A am extinct species Of
mammal which had left no fossil record Of its
Volume XIiI-MAGIcAL MELODIES; The music
Of Apollo and orpheus The melodies 81 Wa wa.
GREAT Fxhumatiom a Of TIE extraordinary wizard
a pef fF ae sS ias kn'S Meoa Mf %S
evoke storms and tempests The Havsmsl %
,iuce female virtue The Indian legend o: Am
ShSt luis 20 sleep. '' musical hand Of glory"
The invocation II demons by song. Examples
bring doTr iirs from heaven, Strange Hindoo
ms melodies s 81 the sres,er magic The chants
that change the color Of the moon. DeEa music;
BaGdS No oss on tine Raewaa LEGENDS o.
singers who made the sun and moon 20 pause in
heaven. and changed the courses OF the stars
Volume XIv.-THE MELoDIEs OF MIGHTY
LANENTATION-1sis and Osiris Demeter and
Persc phone BY the rivers Of Babylon" Jere-
miah's knowledge Of music. l.amentation Of
, lnu s5oi "a s rs enc Firs iIF DEAD
tory OF cries Of mourning I'm all nations De
scriptions OF ancient writer's Howline OF The
tho Romans I ct the ' hid,ous sounds OSith 1865
examples OF musical waiting among ancient ma,
tions-l Modern wailing Survival Of the ancient
mourning cry among modern peonles African
tTout PHI csmbri ca Zoe non ysD The Corscsn
yoceri- Irish keenlng. Gradual DEVELOPMENT Of
Volume. XvIUsoNGs. OF TRIUMPH Up to the
everlasting gates OF Capitolian Jove' Triumph
Z q RamRSas ThOthmes a Tartar
triumph Assyrian riumphal marches Arabian
melodies or war-joy. etc., etc
But Hesrn's fecund fancy was rot vet exhausted
Before he closed ihc envelope he caught up a piece
NJ yellow paper the kind that ne used i'm his news
paper work by preference and iotted down still
more fantastic scheme writing on the back: This
is not intended as a part Of our private extrava-
Eanza. but is written just punishment for your
silence" The rev scheme was "a he an Extra
volume ~ the series Price s50 Large folio": and
this was to be its table OF contents:
THE BATTLE CRIES OF ALI. NATIONS. with
accompaniment Of Barbsric Instruments. Ar
T. ARYsN BivIsI0N' Battle shouts Of Gothic
nations Tenton and Cimhyi. Frank and ALE
man. Merovingian The Roar a Pharamond
TheTisn The TRIUMPH q Herman Viking
Taillefer Celtic and Early British War cries.
H. SEMITIC DIVISION. Hebrew war Cries.
God is gone up with shout to the Lord with
sefs Allah me hI9a c and R. G
cries. The Nnmiden cavalry. The work also
scv5hsn var cries war cries If n. Psrfni ans
and Huns OF the Mongols and Tartars. sounds
gilman mercenaries; Macedonian raIlying call:
c In s9r modern part are included Poly
and American. 4 nagnifcent musical yer
found IN the Appendix. we smote With our
Plainly. Hesrn should have had Georges Kast-
ner 70 colahcrste with. II they DO nothing more
these schemes disclose the extent of his reading
= NJ a.
relate materials While reading up on Arabic sub
jNcts he became interested in the Mahometan call
n PRAYER. and he wrote in a postscript:
By-the-hy. have you the original music % the
Muezzin's call-as called by the first OF an Muer-
the mghtest and sweetest in Islam In those
hrst days Blai was presented as the slave Of the
L is tod how he suffered. But after our Lord had
horseTr4n % the desert had Iidden from Medina
ever 20 the gates OF India. conquering and 20 con-
3 sword, had vaxed into vast moon Of glory that
fllei the world-Rilal still lived with that wonder
ful health OF years given unto the people OF his
rae. But he only sang for the Kalit and the
the people of Damascus, whither omar lad trav-
eed upon a visit. begged the Kalif. saying: %
ask fsilsl 70 sing The cali TO prayer. for us even
e. e was taushi him BY our Lord Mahomet" AND
century old, but his vote was deep and sweet as
Then into the midst OF the great silence burst once
more the mighty African voice OF Bilai, singing
islam:
bear witness that Mahomet is the Prophet OF iodI
come +, TO P Frazer
Come unto Salvation!
G SS5 + + Great Great,
There is no other God but God
Ard Omar wept. and all the people with him.
Hear the music he wanted. and "BiIaL