762 Transactions. 
As varied are the songs in which rhythm enters very little, if at all; 
songs usually sun one person only, or by one person and a chorus. 
Watch-songs, love-songs, laments, lullabies, taunting-songs—all have their 
distinctive character. In listening to one of these, more especially the 
appear to have a word-sense as we have it: an expression appeals to him 
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more ав an expression, not so much as individual words, so that even in 
: of Horace, and in the 
headings to the cantos of Spenser’s “ Faerie Queen.” Analysis of some of 
the complicated melodies may be undertaken in a later paper. 
never obtain personally, and Mr. J. McDonald, of the Dominion Museum, 
for photographs taken and other assistance afforded. 
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HAMILTON, Aveustus, Maori Art, Wellington, 1901. к 
OHN, = Account of the Voyages by Captain Cook in the “ Endeavour. 
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