MUSIC, because it is thought to appeal directly to the emotions, is an art that everybody expects to bo able to understand, and people who are frankly baffled by recondite literature- feel only annoyance at the idea that they may be missing half the significance even of the music that they enjoy. But music has its own language that must be learnt, and this is the point that Mr. Latham will develop in tho first of his two talks.