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TO IOT TOBOE D* THE'KTMBASISBUR;
' 'Bft.-Mr. S^jpwtfaWy
contains, in in/' tijiiriioni aH'thttt <^-b&m9
itfbbliiH of ieloddaoDt^iu'^'v' ftJ'
psthy in the reader wi
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Tincialitm tbw in Tlotori*. Here «to
b«« disappwred,
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high, an authority on the sutgect as the. Hon,
E. Torke baa Farmed ® different opinion.
Speaking. of » .book calledthe Oratorical
7\ramer, presented to H.&.0. by Profw»or
HQ1, te prOnotinfies it totip x\ .worthy of so
necoicatygH ol^ectms that ef exciting a -lore
for Sngfith literature tad teaching the youth
tji® proper pronunciation of their own tongue.
The latter, I fear, is "much neglected in this
Colony."
I fear thii extract affords internal proof of
the necessity of exciting a lore of English
literature fioruewhere. Are ^xciliag love of
English literature and teaching proper pro*
nunciation two objects or one r Iftwo, wiy
aw they described ««one? If one, what does
"the latter" men? At all events, this
sentence is inconsistent with itself, and is the
flippant expression of a half-educated youth's
opinion upon a subject on which he should
bore had sense enough to fee silent.
But this is a divergence from my subject. I
was going to ssy that it would be gratifying to
bare some more definite line of demarcation
laid down between reading abd acting than'
exists at present, and if Mr. Sampson.-, can .
I furnish o&e ho will be doing good sertifca.
The tendency of reading in the present day, as
practised by its highest masters, appears to be \
to act as far as possible that which is only
narrated by the author, and it seems difficult
to say how far, and in what way, that tendeucy
should be controlled.r
-I am, &c.,
TUMULUS.
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