The Holbrook news., 1910-07-22
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MT. Rossetti's daughter, Mime. An gell, has been writing book on Byron and Shelley and their friends in Italy. We are told that it is based in part on materials hitherto unpublished.
 Mrs. T. P. O'Connor, the American wife of the Irish M. P. and editor of ''M. A. P.," is about to bring out a volume of "reminiscences which she calls 'I Myself" It is said to be full of descriptions and anecdotes of celeb rities.
 At the latest meeting of the Society of Authors, London, Maurice Hewlett drew attention to the fact that Thos. Hardy, recently elected. was but the third president the society has had in its entire career. MT. Hardy's pre- decessors were Tennyson and George Meredith.
 How female government works among the ants is shown in Dr. Henry C. McCook's new volume, Amt Com munities." The worker ant is a female in which reproduction has been subor- dinated, and the social life and gov ernment of ants, one of the most re- markable examples in natural science devolves wholly upon her. Dr. McCook continues: Their internal affairs call for no police Among these millions of citizens there is not one criminal, one degenerate. I do not recall in all my observation a single example of an ant whose actual offending called for civil punishment"
 The Bardon Papers, which cover the period of the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots, from May, 1572, to the date of her execution, have just been publish for private circulation. we have long given up all hope" says the Saturday Review, of London, "of ever having the dark places in Mary's career completely cleared to the light. Documents have long since proved quite useless. Those who believe Mary to be innocent of Bothwell's murder or of direct complicity in the Babing- ton conspiracy to murder Elizabeth have made up their minds that damn ing evidence is forgery if written, or falsehood wrung by torture if attest ed. No one of those who have not seen these papers in the original will be moved a jot now that they may read them in print. Partisans who wish to be educated in the subject matter of their case cannot, however, afford to neglect them"
 'MusicoIogy" is the title of a new book by Maurice s. Logan. Musicology means the science of music, as distin guished from music as an art, as fl Is usually taught The object of this book is to furnish practical and com prehensive text book on the thory and philosophy of music, for schools and general use For school use 1t is in- tended to be included in the science course, rather than in the music course The science of music deserves to rank with the other sciences, the author thinks. MT. Logan holds that to regard .muslc simply as an art Is inadequate; every child should be taught the fundamental principle of music; as a matter of education. de veloping the mind, musicology has as much right as any other ology. The author discusses common terms and signs used in music, rhythm. expres- sion, keys, reading music, modes and scales. the structure of music. acous- tics, principal sources of musical sound; and he adds a valuable die tionary of terms and definitions. To students ot music the book may be perfectly intelligible; but to the mere lover of beautiful music it is alarm. ingly technical.