They heard it from the wild Tartars and Mongols--heard it and rejected it, because it was primitive, untamed, and not to be compared with their own carefully controlled melodies.

Mr.Emerson Whithorne, the famous British composer, who is an authority on oriental music, made this statement to the London music lovers last week: "'The popularity of Chinese music is still in its childhood.

From now on it will grow rapidly.

Chinese music has no literature, as we understand that term, but none can say that it has not most captivating melodies.

To the artistic temperament, in particular, it appeals enormously, and well-known artists--musicians, painters, and so on--say that it affects them in quite an extraordinary way.'" Chinese music from an occidental standpoint has been unjustly described as "clashing cymbals, twanging guitars, harsh flageolets, and shrill flutes, ear-splitting and headache-producing to the foreigner." Such general condemnation shows deplorable ignorance.[2] The writer had apparently never attended an official service in honor of Confucius, held biennially during the whole of the Ching dynasty at 3 A.M.