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instrument, with the rattling, rumbling voice, 

 consists of a hollow brass or wooden cylinder 

 and is constructed like the bass drum, except- 

 ing that catgut strings, or snares, are stretched 

 across the lower end, or head, to produce the 

 brilliancy of sound lacking in drums without 

 snares. This drum is sometimes worn at the 

 side; it is played with two slender, wooden 

 sticks. Skilful playing of the snare drum is 

 really difficult and very interesting. 



Kettledrum, a hollow hemisphere of brass or 

 copper, the end of which is covered with vel- 

 lum, which is adjusted by means of screws. It 

 is played with a felt- or leather-covered mallet. 

 The kettledrums are generally used in pairs in 

 orchestras, one be- 

 ing tuned to the 

 keynote, and the 

 other to a higher 

 key. Sometimes 

 three are used. 

 They are the 

 only drums which 

 can be accurately 

 tuned. 



Beethoven was 

 the first to recog- 

 nize the possibili- 

 ties of a drum in 

 orchestral per- 

 formances. C.H.H. KETTLEDRUM 



DRUM'MOND, SIB GEORGE GORDON (1772- 

 1854), a British soldier, second in command of 

 the British forces in America from 1813 to 1815. 

 He was born in Quebec, entered the British 

 army when a boy of seventeen, and distin- 

 guished himself in Egypt and during the 

 Napoleonic wars in Europe. From 18Q8 to 1811 

 he was on duty in Canada, and in 1813 was 

 again sent there as second in command to Sir 

 George Prevost. He personally planned the 

 successful attacks on Fort Niagara and Oswego, 

 and was in command of the British forces at 

 the Battle of Lundy's Lane, occurring on 

 July 25, 1814. After the recall of Sir George 

 Prevost, Drummond remained in Canada as 

 commander-in-chief until 1816. 



DRUMMOND, HENRY (1851-1897), a well- 

 known Scottish evangelist, scientist and author. 

 His fame rests upon his attempt to explain 

 the theory of evolution in connection with 

 Christianity in his two famous books, Natural 

 Law in the Spiritual World and The Ascent 

 of Man. He was born at Stirling and after 

 graduating from the University of Edinburgh 

 in 1870 began to study for the ministry at 



New College, Edinburgh. Stirred by the 

 evangelistic work of the Americans, Moody 

 and Sankey, he began mission work, and the 

 religious movement which he started spread 

 throughout England and even to America and 

 Australia. In 1877 he was appointed lecturer 

 on natural science in the Free Church College, 

 Glasgow; in 1884 he became professor of the- 

 ology there, and his religious work among the 

 students became a great power. 



He traveled extensively, making three trips 

 to the United States and Canada and one to 

 South Africa in the interest of science. On 

 his visits to America he lectured on both re- 

 ligious and scientific subjects. Travel Sketches 

 and Tropical Africa were written after these 

 trips. His first book, Natural Law in the 

 Spiritual World, created a decided sensation, 

 requiring twenty-nine editions in ten years. 

 Perhaps his greatest work was his short anal- 

 ysis of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians, 

 called The Greatest Thing in the World. 



DRUMMOND, WILLIAM HENRY (1854-1907), 

 a Canadian physician and poet, whose dialect 

 poems about the habitants won for him a 

 unique place in Canadian literature. Drum- 

 mond was born in County Leitrim, Ireland, but 

 when still a boy 

 he came to Can- 

 ada. He at- 

 tended high 

 school and Mc- 

 Gill University at 

 Montreal, and in 

 1844 was gradu- 

 ated in medicine 

 from the Uni- 

 versity of Bish- 

 op's College, Len- 



noxville, Quebec. WILLIAM HENRY 

 He was fond of DRUMMOND 



sports and was naturally athletic, being an 

 expert shot-putter and hammer-thrower, a 

 skilful angler and a good shot. With this 

 equipment, in addition to his medical knowl- 

 edge, it was natural that he would have a 

 sympathetic insight into the lives of people 

 like the habitants, the lumbermen and fisher- 

 men, the Indians and half-breeds, who were 

 steeped in the lore of forest and river. 



Dr. Drummond began his professional career 

 in a community made up chiefly of French- 

 Canadian habitants and half-breeds, with a 

 considerable sprinkling of English and Scotch- 

 Irish, and even in later years, when he was 

 practicing in Montreal and was a distinguished 



