FACING PAGE THE FIFER _Frontispiece_ SOME INSTRUMENTS OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 20 HIEROGLYPHICS ON AN EGYPTIAN TABLET 21 GREEK GIRL PLAYING A DOUBLE FLUTE (AULOI) 30 GREEK BOY PLAYING THE LYRE 31 CHINESE INSTRUMENTS 44 FIDDLES FROM ARABIA, JAPAN, COREA AND SIAM 45 THE KOTO-PLAYER 46 THE WANDERING SAMISEN-PLAYER 47 INSTRUMENTS OF BURMAH AND SIAM 52 A BURMESE MUSICALE 53 LAURA WILLIAMS, AMERICAN SINGER OF ARAB SONGS 58 HINDU INSTRUMENTS 66, 67 ST. CECELIA, PATRON SAINT OF MUSIC 72 THE BOOK OF PEACE 73 BOYS WITH A LUTE 128 A PEASANT WEDDING 129 A LADY AT THE CLAVIER (CLAVICHORD) 186 A LADY PLAYING THE THEORBO (LUTH) 187 CHEVALIER CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD VON GLUCK 274 THE BOY MOZART 275 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 292 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 293 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 306 GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL 306 FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN 306 CARL MARIA VAN WEBER 306 THE PIANO AND ITS GRAND-PARENTS 307 FRANZ SCHUBERT 358 ROBERT SCHUMANN 358 FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY 358 FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN 358 RICHARD WAGNER, THE WIZARD 359 GEORGES BIZET 388 VINCENT D’INDY 389 CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS 389 JULES MASSENET 389 GUSTAVE CHARPENTIER 389 HECTOR BERLIOZ 402 FRANZ LISZT 403