1. The grand music master, Che, went to Ts'e.

2. Kan, the master of the band at the second meal, went to Ts'oo. Leaou, the band master at the third meal, went to Ts'ae. Keue?h, the band-master at the fourth meal, went to Ts'in.

3. Fang-shuh, the drum master, withdrew to the north of the river.

4. Woo, the master of the hand- drum, withdrew to the Han.

9. THE DISPERSION OF THE MUSICIANS OF LOO. The dispersion here narrated is supposed to have taken place in the time of duke Gae. When once Confucius had rectified the music of Loo (IX. 14), the musicians would no longer be assisting in the prostitution of their art, and so, as the disorganization and decay proceeded, the chief among them withdraw to other countries, or from society altogether. 1. 大= 太, as opposed to 少, p.5, 'grand', and 'assistant'. 'The music-master, Che',—see VIII. 15. 2. The princes of China, it would appear, had music at their meals, and a separate band performed at each meal, or, possibly, the band might be the same, but under the superintendence of a separate officer at each meal. The emperor had four means a day, and the princes of States only three, but it was the prerogative of the duke of Loo to use the ceremonies of the imperial household. Nothing is said here of the bandmaster at the first meal, perhaps because he did not leave Loo, or nothing may have been known of him. 3. 'The River' is of course 'the Yellow River'. According to the 四书释地, art LVI, the expressions 入于河, 入于汉, are to be taken as meaning simply,—'lived on the banks of the Ho, the Han'. The interpr. in the translation is after Choo He, who follows the glossarist Hing Ping. The ancient emperors had their capitals mostly north and east of 'the River, hence, the country north of it was called 河内, and to the south of it was called 河外. I don't see, however, the applicability of this, to the Han, which is a tributary of the Yang-tsze, flowing through Hoo-pih. 5. It was from S?ang that Confucius learned to play on the 琴.

5. Yang, the assistant music master, and Seang, master of the musical stone, withdrew to an island in the sea.