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Show MUSIC OF MAN AND BIRDS. Interesting to Trace Evolution of the ' World's Harmony. , If the discovery of Independent evolutions of human music all tending In the same direction indicates the existence ex-istence of an Ideal standard toward which progress leads, how much stronger Is the evidence afforded by the fact that bird music Is developing along tbe same lines'. It seems a far cry from a Beethoven symphony of a Wagnerian opera to the simple lay of a sparrow, but as we trace the course of the mighty river of music back toward Its source, the stream becomes be-comes narrower and narrower, until it Is contracted to a point where It is no broader than the little rill of. bird music. Nor does the decrease stop there; for, remarkable as it may seem, there was a time when the music from which ours has been evolved was inferior to some of that whlck. floats to our ears from the woods 'of spring. This la not" to say merely that the songs of certain of ihe bffds Involve more Intervals and greator variety, but that they aro of a higher order judged by our own modern ..standards. Henry Oldys In Harper's. v |