KNOWLEDGE 



[Sept. 25, 1885. 





The Kashmiris (except those of tlie m ry 

 kind of sandal made of tanned leathir, r. s 

 the Roman sandal, uv, r akiTid of L.w ! . i i , 

 and very loose ar ' - ^' 



sock or stocking : ' 

 Lahort Valley i ■ 



or three days, 1 , ■ : , 



wearer either mak.s l.iinsclf ..r i.;;ivli;.s.> a 



penny. The patlis leading to some of tlieir favourite places of 



pilgrimage are strewn with sucli discarded sandals. 



In the Anglo-Saxon department of the British Museum are leather 

 sandals, or rather fragments of them, which are similar in character 

 to those now worn by the upper and middle classes in Kashmir. 

 AVhy should we not endeavour to work on these lines ? 



The grass sandals we could not reproduce, neither would they be 

 suitable to our climate ; but in the course of a month or two, when 

 I expect to return to England, I will endeavour to have a pair of 

 sandals made, similar to those which I brought from Kashmir a few 

 years ago, and send them to the editor of Knowledge to be ex- 

 hibited by him, or sent to Prof. Mattieu Williams, or to any one 

 who is likely to take up the idea and make such rational foot- 

 covering the fashion ; for, unless this can be accomplished, no 

 amount of preaching or teaching will have an effect upon either 

 shoemakers or their customers. Cosmopolitan. 



MUSICAL TEMPEEAMENT. 



[193G]— I send a diagram of a comparative view of just intona- 

 tion and equal temperament : the form new, the substance 

 bon-owed from Mr. Ellis's Additions, Appendix XIX., to Helmholst's 

 " Sensations of tone," &c. 



A sfiarp 



C sharp 



• C 



Mr. Ellis has recently introduced the term ' 

 of musical intervals ; it means an hundredtli 

 1,200 cents, go to an octave. He says (when t ^ 

 t once) two cents. " make a distinct difliv 





e felt to be c 



It of ti 



March 27 of this year). In the prese 

 the fifth CG is shown as diffeiing by 

 two cases of " equal " and "just ' tur 



In the case of the imperfect 

 much greater — as much as 14 



with understanding the proceedings of a pianoforte tuner may 

 notice how much more clear the judgment is, of perfect intervals. 



i-'uished as "just" 



;!'le scales is quite 



-ion of bis paper on 



^■• .Journal Soc. Arts," No. 



not one, not ' natural ' . . . 



y capricious." One scale 



•ess of European music — 



rt\ tied by Salinas in 1.577, 



• - long as only three 



1 lit. and Efl., were 



f furnishing organs 



■ violations extended 



>, Mill keys were called 



m;iatiug by those who 



ition of music. Yet we 



dread of en- 



principally regarded the physical 



do not find that S. Bach was deterre( 



like abstracted n 



of 



tu the neglect of 

 )od when he " gave 



Last!}-, here i 

 ;omeof tbcni.f 

 ;uppress cnhai: 



It tie value 

 I never 



■ y whether 



lists to construct 

 -tical musicians. 



,- of flesh and spirit. 

 ctcd when "fleshly 

 following citation 

 ■ The ear enjoys, in 

 f so harsh a descrip- 

 .y themselves. This 

 1 the other organs of 

 '■ with the ' 







I- alterna 

 Is render. 



ikick 



coded and followed by caresses ; 

 1 illustrate liis paradox by an 

 fry source— the "St. Matthew 

 A. 0. D. 



