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actions without hastily coercing them.—the_ spectacle of » 
machine working its numerous parts. without hurry or con- 
fusion ;—these appear to us to be circumstances more than 
commonly favourable for placing the pupil ina state of body 
and.mind to receive the lessons of the master with profit. 
We have also facilities for inducing the perception of time ; 
the pupil is constantly witnessing the measured movements 
of others, and is trying to act in concert with them. To 
learn to march he finds indispensible to his comfort. The 
motive to exertion thus obtained, his daily practice, and the 
effect of example soon overcome any natural inaptitude for 
making the acquisitions. 
** Every starnmerer, the reader will have observed, can 
sing ; at least the defect of stammering offers no bar to his 
being a singer, if he is in possession of the usual qualifica- 
tions of voice and ear. e ear, we are convinced from 
experience, may in almost all cases be educated to a sufficient 
degree of accuracy for our purpose, and the voice is a mat- 
ter of little importance to us, as our pupil would not learn to 
sing with the view of exercising the art, but simply to quali- 
fy him for learning to speak. 
In extreme cases, then, we would have the pupil taught 
to sing. From singing, let him pass to recitative, which so 
nearly approaches to speaking, that the Siennese, we are told, 
actually practice an intonation, which may be considered a 
pecies of it, in common conversation. 
wards verse of more difficulty may be adopted; than mea- 
sured prose, as Barbauld’s Hymns, Do isley’s Economy of 
Human Life, or (to go at once to the models from which 
of Job, and the Prophecies.. From these we would proceed 
es —— from didactic works, and, lastly, to narrative and 
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“In going through this course, the teacher gradually ceas- 
es to accompany his pupil, either in marching or speaking, 
until at length he directs the boy himself to stand still. Re- 
ctative may be sometimes changed for reading, and instead 
of the sing-song tone almost inseperable from the plan in 
