easily distinguished by the
ear. Representing the vibrations for C as 1, we shall have--

C C# Db D D# Eb E, etc.
1 25/24 27/24 8/9 75/64 6/5 5/4, etc.

each note being increased by one twenty-fourth of itself, or in
absolute vibrations--

C C# Db D D# Eb E, etc.
261 271 271 293 305 303 326, etc.

This is the enharmonic scale, having twenty-one notes. The chromatic
has eleven, and the name--it may be remarked in passing--is from the
Greek word for "color" ([Greek: chroma]) because the old composers
wrote these notes in colors, and had them so printed. Not a bad idea,
surely: many a learner on the piano would be overjoyed to see all the
ugly flats and sharps on the staff in brilliant holiday dress.

There is no reason at this day, when science in all fields is making
such progress, why the ordinary music-teacher should have so limited a
knowledge of his subject. He should be able to explain the fundamental
principles of the different scales upon the theory of vibration, and
to so educate the apprehension of his pupils that they will not be
content with the imperfect catechisms of the music-books in vogue. And
with the adoption of a rational system of writing music, which will
reduce the time and labor of learning it to one half, there will be
time for the niceties of a science of such vast importance to the
culture--and, indirectly, to the moral progress--of the world.

MARIE HOWLAND.

SAMBO: A MAN AND A BROTHER.

"But," I said eagerly, "you do not deny that slavery was a curse to
the country--to Southerners most of all?"

"My dear fellow," said Captain S----, knocking off the ashes from his
cigar, "don't go into that! We were talking about negroes, not about
slavery. I suppose," he added meditatively, "there are not many men in
the country who have faced more of the negro race than those of us
who spent some part of our term of service in the Freedmen's Bureau.
Imagine settling disputes from morning till night between negroes
and between negroes and whites! If you abolitionists--as you called
yourselves before the emancipation--want to have some of the romance
and sentiment of negroism dissolved, live amongst them for a time."

"You were in Virginia?" I said.

"Yes, but the negroes there are a better class than in the States
farther South and more remote from cities."

"How better?"

"Well, more intelligent. To see the deepest ignor