The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-10
SOME NEW BOOKS.
n comparative LsthetIcs.

COLIN McALIfN 81. NJ. Dent and Sons)
the author vouchsafes no explanation
OF his title. One is left. in absenc,
Of "a m biological dictionary. to specu
late gucly whether "Iicrfnaia" IL
some sort of union between the Greek
"Hermes" and the Indian "Maia" o,
whether there is "A musical deity some.
where in Greece or India who re-
Joice3 in this compound name. but
the unexplained title IL only one OF
the authors forms of reconsideration.
He presents us with an exceedingly
heavy volume of 429 pages packed
with distractions and utterly empty
Of concrete Illustration. 1t is a
Rants "Cr.tique of Pure Reason in
abstraction and yet the summing up
OF the whole matter IL that music
Is the highest of the arts. The argu-
ment. trailing as II docs through all
these pages. is full of repetition and
restatement. II would lie quite pos
sible to turn owe the leaves. extract
ing sentences here and there cryptic,
full packed; significant and aphor!s-
tic enough to construct an Emerson
essay on music. For example.
trt. at root. H. expressive of mans feel
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self-culture should aim at making man l
higher social unit. . Whcn a great
man lives In retirement 1t IL that he may
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music ia In ,bo ro,i,n ~, w. ra,,,t,',
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ooI.al -, ,ho -, n.n.sa.
waaa"st"s "vniuI""'
like the g,itterlng sunlight ON , tract OF
snow. surely it is the radiation Of divine
.oN', Su"uShs nature ~ VITA a smile
o,borvt.s ls bu, ,no I ""S 1910 ~ u L."
sniri,naii,,c, ,,t, ,,.,,,,a., W. 'u
zion is tho unfoidment Of The inner. and
nature becomes a, once The art Of tho
ihhnitc nina. Nature palpltate.
W." MINI ~" cA'I'eS our confidence
w., ,,usI ,a., ~ nc World
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WIS constructed according =, tho ,ri,ci.
p'"s ~ musical proportions. q
i" music We plunge into tho stream ot
r',,N' what IL terminal n
NJ. ,,,a.nt 90 mus.
OF that u,,l,n,t. .re,, ,nt,h ,.''~"
OF nature produce. in iii. very Je,,hs A.
mans spiritual h'ing. Musical
wrought completely environs the soul. y,
,.m ar gives w. su'h a s"nse of the
gives Us love in tho human face anal ,b,'
too more wildly beautiful than faus to
Tn" lot "f any other form Of art. Il, /.
u ".'"c when gives Us love In tho
IN, ,x,,.., .ou' - ""p''.'' IN poetry
miyh, he called mo c.,r.., "u
conscious in man.
Enough. The n,.e, ,oa, ,.,,, ,,,.
and would furnish an ex-
cellent text for "A dissertation u,or
the value OF abstraction There 10
danger in soaring and ono
may all too easily be lost in the cloudy
of the dim in,ne Had mi.
been an ESSAY. carefully .if,ed
and the essence extracted Il, u,on,1
lave been valuable. But alas, II 10
enormous volume. Never do on.,,
feet settle upon the ground anon,
The firm. solid things of fact In tho
essay on Giurgione Pater tells ne ,ho, ,
art tends toward the conditions
Of music because the limits ,re ,e,s
ixed and the conditions more tuid
t is really this capacity for CROWN .
II music. this Quite, on all sides which ,
he present author is really a,,emn,-
to bring to our notice. ,
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IN ..,rhe Eirydoms In ,ho W., ~ I
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KnoyyI.dee". "AIusic a, do ~, il
ressiop az cod .,In y
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Music AZ tho Exrrossi,, -, pdru a
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