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ORGANS OP SONG. Contin. 



INSECTS. 



For musical organs and music of insects, see Domestic Habits of 

 Birds, Lib. of entertaining knowl. (London,! 833), pp. 225-246 Musicians 

 of our Woods. (Harp. Mag., vol. xix. 1859, pp. 323-337.) New Mo. 

 Mag., vol. iii., pt. 3, June 1, 1827, p. 269. Taylor, Charlotte : Musicians 

 of Field and Meadow. (Harp. Mag., vol. xxvi., 1862-63, pp. 495-501.) 



Universal Effect of Music. 



Be the scientific solution what it may, whether or not 



" 'T is love creates their melody, and all 

 This waste of music is the voice of love," 



we know that music is pleasurable to man, and its con- 

 tinuous presence throughout the animal kingdom indicates 

 that it is pleasurable also to the beings beneath him. 

 Why should not the subtile power of music extend from 

 man down to the smallest creature ? The author of Job 

 and Shakespeare record its effect on the horse, and similar 

 testimony is to be met with in all literatures ancient and 

 modern. 



Music-LoviNG Cows. 



" Opposite to our house was a large field in which some twelve or thir- 

 teen cows were put during the summer months. One day a German band 

 commenced to play on the road which divided the house from the field. 

 The cows were quietly grazing at the other end of the field, but no sooner 

 did they hear the music than they at once advanced toward it, and stood 

 with their heads over the wall attentively listening. This might have 

 passed unnoticed, but upon the musicians going away the animals fol- 

 lowed them as well as they could on the other side of the wall, and when 

 they could get no farther stood lowing piteously. So excited did the 

 cows become that some of them ran round and round the field to try 

 to get out, but finding no outlet returned to the corner where they had 

 lost sight of the band ; and it was some time before they seemed satisfied 

 that the sweet sounds were really gone." American Naturalist. 



