this reply, in a marked manner, to the above question:

No; it is the work of a Maker.

Now again read the sentence aloud, observing these last directions, as well as the rest () indicated.

Do you not perceive the logical and elocutionary value of that middle pause and upward movement of the voice? I am sure you must.

Now read aloud the following sentences, exactly in the same manner.

I will use this mark for the ascent of the voice (— and the opposite mark for the descent or cadence.

I am not mad, most noble Festus but speak forth

the words of truth and soberness.

Acts xxvi. 25.

(The student must supply minor rests.)

For in that sleep of death,

What dreams may come, when we have shuffled off

This mortal coil must give us pause.

SHAKSPEARE.

All are but parts of one harmonious whole
Whose body nature is, and God the soul.

POPE.

And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Luke xxi. 20.

Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,

For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

SHAKSPEARE.

The great globe itself,

Yea all which it inherit shall dissolve

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,

Leave not a wrack behind.

I have said nothing about what is called the full stop, or period; the punctum, I mean, at the end of sentences, because that will generally arrange itself. But there are two remarks to be made about that stop; 1, that the schoolboy rule of counting four upon it is not a good guide, for its duration must be measured by the more or less intimate connection between the sentence it concludes and the one it precedes.

2. In many cases there is no necessity for any such lengthened pause. A pause, or rest, double the middle pause, is generally sufficient, except when the sentences to be separated have a logically greater division by disconnection; by opening a new branch of the reasoning, for example, or a new train of thought,

or, as the printers would call it, a new paragraph. In those cases there will be a full rest, thus .

But in many cases-always, indeed, when two or more sentences hang together, as it were, in close relation, though divided by a printer's full stop-the rest, or middle pause (*), is all that is needed. In some sentences, to make a longer pause would be bad, by breaking the close continuity or connection of the reasoning. Thus, the following two sentences, which have a printer's full stop between them, should, in reading aloud or speaking, be separated only by the rest.

Logicians may reason about abstractions, but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them. They must have images.

The rest is a sufficient pause here, because the two sentences hang together; the second of the two being only the complement of the first. The meaning intended is: The vulgar are not content with abstractions; they require images.

If the student have read the above examples aloud, carefully marking the ascent of pitch, and suspension on the rest, and the downward cadence of the voice at the close, he will have gathered, with the previous notes on pause, as

much as he can digest fully in his first lesson. In the second lesson I shall treat of melody and cadence more fully.

Note.-To critical students:

In marking the preceding examples, I do not designate the necessary shades of emphasis that underlie them. I confine myself to what is sufficient for the student in this opening lesson. I do not anticipate more advanced instruction. I reserve refinements for later lessons.

Make a diligent practice of the following

EXERCISE IN PHRASING.

At every half-rest marked take a halfinspiration, and complete the line with full strength. Take a full inspiration at the rest at the end of each line.

All art is nature better understood.

Blackbubbling brooks break brawling o'er their bounds.

And Eve in Eden ever happy there.

Crazed with corroding cares and killed with consuming complaints.

Gregory going gailygalloped gallantly to the gate.

Many men of many minds

matters of much moment.

mixing in multifarious

Why boast we Glaucus our extended reign? *

Admired as heroes

Can all our care

Deep in the dark

Brave tho' we fall

Aurora

and as Gods obeyed. elude the gloomy grave?

Tartarean gulfshall groan.

and honoured if we live.

now fair daughter of the dawn,

Sprinkled with rosy light

Thence heave the Gods

And the vast world

the dewy lawn.

the ocean and the land, hangs trembling in my sight.

The real strength of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning in the light with which it brightens the great-mystery-of-the-grave. 1

Mark for pause and phrasing, and then read, aloud, the following in an easy manner of narrative:

THE KING OF THE BEGGARS.

Bamfylde Moore Carew, 'the king of the beggars,' was the son of the rector of Bickleigh, and was born seven years before the accession of Queen Anne. Bamfylde's scrapes began at Tiverton, where he led the stag-hounds across some corn-fields, and then ran away from school to avoid punishment He joined some gipsies, and soon became conspicuous among them by his skill in disguise and begging, and his fondness for the wild, free, yet dissolute and lawless life. Soon after being chosen king of the beggars, Carew was arrested at Barnstaple, sent to