118254-2 Reddere quæ 66 Fungar vice cotis, acutum ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi."-HORACE. "Mine be the whetstone's task! which, blunt itself, Can to the knife its keenest edge impart." BIJTI CHAPTERS ON PUBLIC SPEAKING AND READING ALOUD. BY THE REV. J. J. HALCOMBE, M. A. LATE SCHOLAR OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. AND ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SPEECH, BY W. H. STONE, M. A., M. B. LATE SCHOLAR AT BALLIOL COLLEGE, PREFACE. HE following pages are more especially addressed to the younger members of the Universities, in the confident hope that the subjects of which they treat will soon be recognized in their full importance by every man who is looking forward to serve in the Christian ministry. The time has passed when the Church of England can afford to let judgment go by default; and she has already suffered much by her supineness in this particular. Unfortunately, erroneous opinions on this subject have been blindly acquiesced in until they have gained a sort of prescriptive authority; and even now, men of the most earnest and practical turn of mind are again and again found to endorse the absurd paradox, that, though the best years of life may advantageously be spent in storing the mind with the treasures of knowledge, yet a few weeks' study of the only means of applying |