soft yellow with time, and when a ray of sunlight illumines the floating draperies, we seem to see the god himself as he advances slowly in sandalled feet, with the resplendent charm of eternal youth and the full power of his divinity as he raises the inspired song. He was worshipped in all lands where the religion of Greece or Rome found a foothold, as the symbol of music for the pure love of its own beauty, the mere pleasure in sweet sounds.

In Raphael's celebrated "Parnassus," in the Vatican, here reproduced, he has represented the tip of the sacred mountain, with Apollo seated under a group of laurel-trees playing upon a violin. He is surrounded by the nine Muses, and some of the most famous poets and musicians of history. Homer and Dante are easily recognized among them. Apollo, as the centre and ruler of them all, typifies the supremacy of music, its power over and

influence on the makers of the world's literature.

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"For general harmony of line, for perfect balance of mass, and for noble grace, Mr. Henry Strachey pronounces this figure of Apollo hard to match." "How perfectly balanced is the disposition of the limbs, and yet how unconstrained. light falls naturally in exactly the places which require emphasis. This perfection of balance in the form of the figure gives the 'Apollo' its grand serenity. To add to the dignity of the head, the painter devised a crown of bays, which, with the leaves below the left arm, are a good example of Raphael's faultless sense of pattern."

The music of "the great god Pan" was that of primitive pagan man. A woodland deity, the god of flocks and shepherds, he sought the rocky mountains and cool grottoes for his abode. Half god and half beast, Pan came into the world with hoofs

and horns, with a crooked nose and pointed ears, and, wandering at his own free will, was as cheerful as he was noisy-“splashing and paddling with the hoofs of a goat," as Mrs. Browning describes him.

But it is the music-loving Pan that is oftenest represented in art. The reeds on which he blew strains so "piercing sweet" that his music cheered the gods, are an almost invariable part of his environment, whether he is blowing on them or not.

Pan's susceptible heart is accountable for the invention of the famous pipes. Unable to resist the charm of the pretty woodnymphs and naiads with whom he danced and sang, and utterly unmindful of his ugly goat legs and hoofs, he lost his heart to the beautiful nymph, Syrinx, who fled in terror from her unwelcome pursuer. The nimble god was about to overtake Syrinx, when she called breathlessly to the water-nymphs to save her. They heard and granted her