THE ART OF READING. CHAPTER I. ON THE ART OF READING. IT requires no elaborate arguments to prove that reading with correct articulation, accent, tone, emphasis, and pauses, is both an elegant and useful accomplishment. The universal esteem in which it has always been held, the power it confers of awakening an interest in subjects of the greatest importance both to our social condition and our spiritual welfare, are sufficient alone to show that this pleasing art is entitled to high consideration. To the minister of religion it is an indispensable acquirement. To the lawyer and the statesman it is scarcely less so; and there are many others, such as secretaries to public institutions, and lecturers on science and literature, who derive the greatest advantage in their several B |