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IX. xm, xlv,xv. _E A_At_TS.
/.Is sont grossiers ; convient-il de vivre _ eux ? Si un
homme sage ...... qu'auront ils encore de grossier ?
CHAPTER XIV.--THE RENAISSANCE OF
MUSIC.--It was in the first year of Duke Ai that Confu-
cius returned from his long exile, to end his days five years
later inLu. C. At this time the _ _ the -_ and
were all decadent, but Confucius in his wanderings abroad
had made careful research, and now I_ _ _._ l_ ;_ _j_,
]_ lh_ _J _IE _;, late in life, perceiving that his ideas
would not be adopted, returned and corrected these
matters. _I_ _' says, _1_ _ _ _] _, _ gg ;;_
_ The Ya were performed in the Palace, the Sung in
the temple ; as Dr. Legge explains : they are "the names
of two, or rather three of the divisions of the _ _ the
former being the 'elegant' or 'correct'odes to be used
with music at imperial festivals, and the latter, the praise
songs, celebrating principally the founders of the different
dynasties, to be used in..... "the ancestral temple°" L. I
returned from etc. and then the music was reformed .......
Royal songs and Praise songs etc. Z....... musica refor-
maim,atque Decorum et Praecxmia etc. K ....... I comt_et-
ed nay work of reforming the State Music, and arranging
the Songs and Psalms, in the Book of Ballads, Songs and
Psalms, etc. Couv. Depuis, etc. la musique a &_ corrigfe
; les Ia et Soung etc.
CHAPTER XV.--A SENSE OF IMPERFEC-
TION.--This sounds like a remark made early in his career.
C. has only the briefest note ontlds. The _J _' of course
say_ that he made this remark in modesty and to teach
others. _ _ _ ./_,. L. At_road, to serve the
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