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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
fool we ate yesterday; it may suggest the notion of
playing gooseberry, or tho big gooseberry of the
newspaper paragraph ; it may lead to etymological
dissertation on its derivation from gooseberry, allied
to north country grosors and French groseille, or it
may summon up visions of bad champagne, incident-
ally leading to " The Vicar of Wakefleld," and the
famous wine manufactured only by Mrs. Primrose.
In fact, I have no hesitation at all in expressing my
private opinion that, if the chart of the brain were at
all like what most people imagine it to be, the asso-
ciations of the word gooseberry alone would suffice
to give good and solid employment to every fiber,
cell, and convolution it anywhero possesses.
On tho other hand, if we regard the brain as
mainly dynamical, as an organism capable of very
varied combinations of action, we can easily see,
not only how memory becomes possible, but
•also how such infinite variations of associa-
tion are rendered conceivable. For if every
thought or perception is, as it were, an organized
tremor in a vast group of diverse nerve-elements,
often Indeed, in almost all together, it is simple
enough to understand how these tremors may fall into
regular rhythms, may excite one another in regular
successions, may get habitual, just as the steps do in
dancing, or the movements of the hand in writing a
familiar and well-remembered formula for example,
in signing one's name. Here, in this immense and mi
nutely organized workshop, wo have a constant suc-
session of motions in wheels and gearing, so arranged
that each motion may be communicated in a thousand
directions, and what is apparently a single impetus
may call up the most diverse and extraordinary re-
sults. Hut. in reality, the impetus is not single; for,
when we are thinking of a horse in one way, we have
a certain fixed form of movement called up; while,
if we are thinking of it in another way, the form
called up, though analogous in many respects, is far
indeed from being identical. When I write " nice,"
you think of something or other vaguely pleasant;
but, when I write " Nice," the very pronunciation is
altered into something very like "neicc," and the
picture that rises before your mind is tho very d«fl-
nilo one of the Promenade des Anglais, with its long
lino or white villas and stunted palni-troes, bounded
by the blue horizon of the Mediterranean, and tho
beautiful slopes of Mm coast toward Villefranehe. It
is just tho .same with the apples and the oranges.
The elements of the picture vary incessantly: and,
while one combination now suggests one association,
another combination another time suggests a second.
The elements join together in an infinite variety of
ways, and so a Unite number of sells and fibres ena
ble us to build up all the wealth of thought, just as
twenty-six tiny symbols allow uf to express all the
wonderful conceptions of Milton and all the beauti-
ful ideas of Sholley. There are only fifty-two cards
in a park, it is truo, but no two games of whist ever
yet played, in all probability, wore absolutely iden-
tical.
To sum it all up: it is the brain as a whole that
thinks, and feels, and desires, and imagines, just as
it is the body as a whole that walks, and swims, and
digs, and dance*. To locate, say, the faculty of lan-
guage in a, particular convolution of a particular
hemisphere is almost as absurd, it soems to me, as
to locate, siy, the faculty of writing in the last joint
of the right forefinger. Convolution and forefinger
may be absolutely essential or indispensable for tho
proper performance of speech or writing; but to say
that is not to say that the function in question is
there localized. The brain, as a whole, is the organ
or mind, but there is no organ for tho word Canon-
bury, or for the proper perception of a Mrs. Pollock
geranium.—Gentleman's Magazine.
THE GAZETTE.
RICK MUSK; CO., Des Monies, Iowa, conveyed
realty mortgage, $7,000.
A. H. BROWN. Jackson, Mich., four chattel mort-
gages, $1,026, assigned.
Mits. M. G. THAYKR, St. Paul, Minn., assigned,
suit vs. assigned, $;tr>7.
S. C. FRENCH, Clinton, 111., judgment, $320.
SMITH & SHAVER, Manortown, Va., dissolved, suc-
ceeded by A. G. Shaver.
C. D. WILLIAMSON, Columbus, Ohio, gives li. E.
mortgage, $400.
one year, is the only child of Mr. Junius Hart, the
Canal street music dealer.
The sweet little one is eighteen months old, and is
as " pretty as a picture." She was nicely dressed
in a white embroidered mull dress and cap with a
gold bracelet, and was the most generally admired
baby in the collection. She was the last one entered
on the list, and was casually taken to the Exposition
by her father, who was persuaded to allow the dear
little girl to compete. She weighs 27 pounds; has
large, lustrous brown eyes and clear healty com-
plexion, and is a fine specimen.
E. A. KEPNER, Harrisburg, Pa., judgment, $106.
TAYBER & SWEETLAND, Chicago, 111., suit $1,000.
JOHN W. SCOTT, Bloomington, 111., R. E. mort-
gage, *'!50.
W. S. TWEED, Clarinda, Iowa, judgment, $70.
JONAS DIVEHS, Middletown, New York, E. E. mort-
gage, $1,200.
CHAS. G. SIRINOSTEIN, Watcrtown, New York,
judgment, $149.
Mns. M. J. PIERCE, Marshalltown, Iowa, chattel
mortgage, S765.
1). O. MYERS, Springfield, Ohio, chattel mortgage,
$1,250.
W. It. AKKY <& Co., Wichita, Kansas, dissolved.
THE
GROVESTEEN & F U L L E R
GO'S., BOSTON AGENT.
PIANO
(From Boston Home Journal.)
HE
original
firm of this name, established in
tested.
1825, has recently been merged into an in-
corporated company, with Mr. George W.
JUNIUS HART'S LITTLE CHILD TAKES Carter, formerly of the Emerson Piano Co., as Its
THE GOLD MEDAL.
general manager. Their pianos, from entirely new
designs, scales and patterns, are now ready, and
ENA HART, to whom the first prize of a gold, samples have been placed with me on exhibition
medal was awarded at the Baby Show of the and sale, with instructions to sell without regard to
American Exposition, N. O., as the hand- profit until fairly introduced into tho New England
somest, girl baby under two years of ago and over states. I ;iin therefore enabled to offer to all im
mediate purchasers, instruments of durable con-
struction, wonderful sweetness and power, and
delicacy of action, at prices which must make them
HUBERT MCLELLAN, Bloomfield, N. B., notes pro-
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emphatically the PEOPLE'S PIANO.
The attention
of dealers throughout New England is respectfully
solicited.
WM. H. GERRISH,
General Agent for New England,
147 Tremont street, Boston.
CIRCULAR TO THE MUSIC TRADE.
T
HE undersigned take this method of informing
their patrons and the music trade generally,
that, on the (Jth day of March, 1886, C. C. COLBY
and WM. H. DUNCAN were admitted as partners in
the firm of "CHRISTIE & SON," and the firm name
was changed to " C H R I S T I E * CO." In order to ex-
tend the business and to further improve the CHRISTIE
PIANOS, we have secured one of the largest and most
complete factories in New York, possessing all the
advantages of steam power and machinery that can
be niadeavailable in pianofortemaking, with capacity
for turning out fifty to seventy-five pianos per week.
It is our intention to make only pianos of a high
grade, such as we know to be in greatest demand by
the musical public. We thank the many dealers
throughout the country who have heretofore be-
stowed liberal patronage upon MR. JACOB CHRISTIE
during the quarter of a century that he has been in
the pianoforte business as a manufacturer, and we
hope to receive your further orders, and to be able
to convince you that it is for your interest to handle
the CHRISTIE PIANO as a leading instrument.
IF YOU WANT THE
BEST ORGAN OF THE AGE
20!) to 223 West :tGth Street.
JACOB CHRISTIE,
C. C. COLBY,
WM. H. DUNCAN.
BUY THE
STERLING.
FACTORIES AND GENERAL OFFICES.
33erby,
Conn.
K. W. BLAKE,
Gen'l Manager.
NEGLIGENCE.—SURVIVAL OP ACTION.—A cause of
action, given by statute to the personal representa-
tives of a deceased person to recover damages for
the negligent killing of such person after the death
of the wrong-doer, cannot be continued against his
representatives, according to the decision of the
New York Court of Appeals in the case of Hegerich
vs. Keddie.
INSOLVENT PARTNERSHIP.—LIABILITY OF RETIR-
NKW YORK WAREROOMS,
Nos. 7 & 9 West 14th St.
THE E. H. McEWEN CO., MANAGERS.
Chicago Warerooms, 179 Wabash Ave.
ING MEMBER.—Unless upon proof of fraud, the re-
tiring memberof a partnership subsequently became
insolvent cannot be held liable for any firm debts con-
tracted after his retirement, according to the deci-
sion oft he Supreme Court of the United States in the
case Penn National Bank vs. Furness.
R. H. KODDA, MANAGES.
BEHR BROS. & CO.,
New Patent Harmonic Upright.
The Greatest Perfection yet attained in the Art
of Piano-forte Making.
Unequalled for Singing Quality and Volume
of Tone.
Warerooms, 15 East 14th Street.
Factory, 292, 294, 296 & 298 Eleventh Ave., cor. 29th St., 1ST. Y.