Church review . sition grewalong two Independent lines; the first,D in the (lassie school, ably rep-resented more recently by Brahms, and romantic Bchi ated by Richard Strauss. The classicists ad-here with painful rigor to establishedOS, and fixed methods of thematicdevelopment. The classicists aim atpure formal beauty. The composersof the romantic school, on the otherhand, deviate freely from the classicalfoims, and exhibit strong tendenciestoward emotional color effects. Fromthe standpoint of the classic school,with its logical formality, musicreached its highest development in theworks of -
Church review . sition grewalong two Independent lines; the first,D in the (lassie school, ably rep-resented more recently by Brahms, and romantic Bchi ated by Richard Strauss. The classicists ad-here with painful rigor to establishedOS, and fixed methods of thematicdevelopment. The classicists aim atpure formal beauty. The composersof the romantic school, on the otherhand, deviate freely from the classicalfoims, and exhibit strong tendenciestoward emotional color effects. Fromthe standpoint of the classic school,with its logical formality, musicreached its highest development in theworks of -Mozart and Beethoven, ex-cept insofar as greater possibilitieswih be opened up in the increased me-( banical perfection of the orchestra,and the introduction of mechanical in-vention. The romantic style, however,holds out the hope of greater thingsin music, and aside from the possi-bility of mechanical invention, the ro-mantic style is the only way open tomusic from arrested development.—Chicago Music COUGHING. A cough is a spasmodic expulsion ofair through the vocal cords, its use be-ing chiefly to expel phlegm collected inthe bronchial tubes. It is excited byany irritation of the mucous mem-brane of the respiratory tract from thevocal cords to the lungs. This irritation may come simplyfom congestion or inflammation of thelining membrane of the bronchialtubes, even when there is no secretion,and consequently no phlegm to becoughed up. This is what is called adry cough; it is seen in the earlystages of a bronchial cold, and is us-ually succeeded by the loose cough assoon as the inflamed mucous membranebegins to secrete. But a bronchial cough is by nomeans the only one, for we often seewhat is called a reflex or sympatheticcough arising from disturbances inother parts of the body. Thus we mayhave a cough excited by various di-gestive troubles, by affections of theliver, or by a disease of some other or-gan in the abdominal cavity. Coughing may be excited by irrita-ti
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