Mexico as First Seen by the Spaniards.......Prescott 384

The Physical Characteristics of Greece........Hillard 404 Coral and Coral Reefs.........Thomas Henry Huxley 406 John Henry Cardinal Newman 413

A Gentleman

TYPE STUDIES IN LITERATURE

STUDIES IN VOICE MOVEMENT AND TONE QUALITY

Read the following stanza over aloud, and notice your voice movement as you read. You will observe that with one exception the pulses or beats of the voice are regular; that is, there is a regular alternation of light and heavy syllables. This regularity in movement is called rhythm. Such pronounced regularity as is shown here is not, Usually the poet can better express his thought by making frequent variations from the theme meter, so that the voice movement will help to suggest the idea. The poem, "The Summer Storm," Lowell, is unusually irregular in its pulses or beats.

JAMES RUSSELL

LOWELL

When winter winds are piercing chill,

And through the hawthorn blows the gale,

With solemn feet I tread the hill,

That overbrows the lonely vale.

From Woods in Winter, Longfellow.

TYPE STUDIES IN LITERATURE

STUDIES IN VOICE MOVEMENT AND TONE QUALITY

Read the following stanza over aloud, and notice your voice movement as you read. You will observe that with one exception the pulses or beats of the voice are regular; that is, there is a regular alternation of light and heavy syllables. This regularity in movement is called rhythm. Such pronounced regularity as is shown here is not, however, often seen. Usually the poet can better express his thought by making frequent variations from the theme meter, so that the voice movement will help to suggest the idea. The poem, "The Summer Storm,' Lowell, is unusually irregular in its pulses or beats.

JAMES RUSSELL

LOWELL

When winter winds are piercing chill,

And through the hawthorn blows the gale,

With solemn feet I tread the hill,

That overbrows the lonely vale.

From Woods in Winter, Longfellow.