The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

part in the last pomps of that falling empire, and in the final

festivals of the ancient mythology. In a letter in which he specially treats of “various kinds of musical instruments,” St. Jerome, who lived from 331 to 420, speaks of those which were in use in his time for the requirements of religion, war, ceremonial, and art. He mentions, in the first place, the organ, and describe...