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On reading Lectures in public _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The public reader of Lectures should be especially careful to avoid a manner and tone of utterance which are not natural to him - Good reading differs from conversation only in being more distinct slow and grave: but there should be the same inflections of voice, variations of tone and ease of utterance. Let herein not begin in a key which he cannot sustain throughout but with great effort and so inflict upon his hearers a painful feeling when they percieve the difficulty under which he labours: but let him commence only sufficiently loud to be heard and in the natural key of his voice, so as to allow for all the necessary variations of tone: -then let him rise by degree, warming with the subject, and slowing as it proceeds 'till, in the application, when instructor has performed [illegible] office, he may allow all the feelings of his heart to flow forth in the stirring or persuasive [or?] pathetic] strains with which it closes.- The following gradual but brief directions by [illegible] author of considerable experience will understand thou[?] selves to our readers Begin low Take fie{?] Be self possessed [illegible] read slow Rise higher When most impressed