ROBINSON, A. MARY F. 438, 439 ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA 417 ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL 293, 359 RUSKIN, JOHN 390 SANGSTER, CHARLES 408 SCOTT, SIR WALTER 179 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM 40 SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE 218, 219 SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY 159 SMITH, GOLDWIN 409 SOUTHEY, ROBERT 209 STANLEY, DEAN (ARTHUR PENRHYN) 350 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE 418 STEELE, SIR RICHARD 83 SWIFT, JONATHAN 93 SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES 422 TAYLOR, BISHOP (JEREMY) 56 TENNYSON, LORD (ALFRED) 366, 370, 373, 377, 407 THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE 306, 308 THOMSON, JAMES 101 WALTON, IZAAK 62 WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF 361, 372 WILSON, PRESIDENT (DANIEL) 383 WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM 202 INTRODUCTORY. The ability to read well cannot be attained without much pains and study. For even a moderate proficiency in the art of reading two requirements are essential: (1) A cultivated mind quick to perceive the sequence of thoughts which the words to be read logically express, and equally quick in its power sympathetically to appreciate the sentiment with which the words are informed--the feeling, emotion, passion, which pervades them--but which they suggest rather than actually portray; and (2) a voice so perfected that its utterances fall upon the ear of the listener with pleasing effect, and so flexible that it can be managed skilfully to convey to him the full meaning and force of all the ideas and sentiments formally expressed by the words or latent in them. Of these two requirements the first is undeniably the more important; and that training in the art of reading in which the close, persistent, and liberal study of literature for its own sake has not proceeded _pari passu_ with the requisite exercises for the development of the powers of the voice and with the study of the principles of vocal interpretation, has resulted in a meretricious accomplishment of very illusive value.