Allen received Brownson's letter last night and likes the suggestions. He will merely say a word on each point. 1 He likes Brownson's emendations exceedingly and begs him to change as he suggests: Viz., in place of "for the words must be distinctly heard" say "in such manner that the words cannot be distinctly heard," if he thinks he will be better understood. It meant it is forbidden for two or more voices to be singing an entirely different set of words at the same time, as in Haydn's 7th and Mozart's 9th Masses—in the Credo and Gloria respectively-each voice takes up the piece at a different point, thus shortening it very much. And generally it is forbidden that the voices should be singing so that the words cannot be distinctly distinguished. Allen believes that Palestrina avoids this in spite of his fugato style; he is not very familiar with his works but his impression is that he did not write long fugues and indeed, strict fugues at all, but only fugatos. 2 When he says that music is an essential part of the Holy Sacrifice, "Allen means, of course, of High Mass. It cannot be High Mass unless it is sung. "Only guides" is in anti thesis to "it does not distract." 3 He does not think it is possible to lay too much stress on the importance of Church music. The usual Church music is a sign of the worldly spirit of the congregation, of the times, and of the cloven hoof, and it helps create that worldly spirit. Therefore, the matter must be most important. 4 Allen did not know that Millenuim was rejected by the Church. If so, he would wish to change what he says. 5 Hymn means the music and the music and the words, not the words without the music, If he remembers correctly "dicere" is used for both singing and saying. He believes that Our Lord—as in everything He did-merely complied with the custom of the Jews in singing at meals. Allen adopted this beautiful picture idea of Our Lord and His disciples singing-their hearts filled with adoration and reverance-as a kind of text for his paper: if he leaves that out, the paper would be like a watermelon squeezed dry. This picture appeals very strongly to the imagination. But he will study it up and write again tomorrow. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 6 pp. 8 vo.