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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



The natural voice, free from the chest, is most agreeable and effective 

 in conversation and in addressing an audience ; it is least fatiguing to 

 the speaker and to the hearer, and penetrates farthest. 



Spirited and impressive sermons, mostly in a major key, modulate 

 in elevating ideas to the dominant, in soothing sentiments to the sub- 

 dominant and the relative minor keys, but return and end in the prin- 

 cipal key like a musical composition. 



Collections of melodies in sermons and speeches of different nations 

 would be most interesting and useful to students in oratory, be it for 

 a dignified and becoming rendering of the great truths and sentiments 

 in religion and humanity, or for persuasion, admonition, and encourage- 

 ment in secular matters. 



The following melodies I have copied from a speech by an Oxford 

 professor, and from a sermon by an English bishop. 



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— Longman 's Magazine. 



Professou Neumayei:, of Hamburg, urges the necessity of Antarctic explora- 

 tion, laying special stress on its importance for geology and paleontology. Ho 

 anticipates that it will show that the south pole was a center of dispersion of 

 animals and plants for the southern hemisphere, as the north pole is believed 

 to havo been for the northern. 



