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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

The natural voice, free from the chest, is most agreeable and effective in conversation and in addressing an audience; it is least fatiguing to the speaker and to the hearer, and penetrates farthest.

Spirited and impressive sermons, mostly in a major key, modulate in elevating ideas to the dominant, in soothing sentiments to the sub-dominant and the relative minor keys, but return and end in the principal key like a musical composition.

Collections of melodies in sermons and speeches of different nations would be most interesting and useful to students in oratory, be it for a dignified and becoming rendering of the great truths and sentiments in religion and humanity, or for persuasion, admonition, and encouragement in secular matters.

The following melodies I have copied from a speech by an Oxford professor, and from a sermon by an English bishop.

From an English speech (by an Oxford professor):

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \clef bass \key ees \major \cadenzaOn bes4 bes bes g f ees \bar "|" c' c' bes g f ees bes, ees \bar "|" c' c' bes aes2 g4 \bar "|" c' bes bes g f ees c bes, \bar "|" f aes aes f g ees bes, \bar "|" c' bes bes g ees \bar "|" c' bes d ees ees \bar "|" bes bes ees aes2 \bar "|" ees4 c' c' bes ees aes \bar "|" aes bes, g ees \bar "|" c' bes ees bes, bes, \bar "||" }$

From (the sermon of an English bishop) an English sermon:

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \clef bass \key ees \major \cadenzaOn bes,4 f f d ees d \bar "|" f bes, ees bes, d2 \bar "|" ees4 ees g g f ees bes, | g g bes bes g f d ees d \bar "|" d f bes g f \bar "|" bes bes g f d ees \bar "|" bes bes f g g d ees2 \bar "|" g4 f d bes, bes, \bar "|" f f g bes bes g bes2 \bar "|" f4 aes aes f bes f c'2 \bar "|" d4 ees g bes bes g f d ees \bar "|" bes, d d d ees g \bar "|" f d ees g bes bes \bar "|" f g aes c' bes g d ees \bar "|" ees aes, c ees \bar "|" g g f d ees \bar "|" d ees f bes, ees \bar "||" }$

—Longman's Magazine.

Professor Neumayer, of Hamburg, urges the necessity of Antarctic exploration, laying special stress on its importance for geology and paleontology. He anticipates that it will show that the south pole was a center of dispersion of animals and plants for the southern hemisphere, as the north pole is believed to have been for the northern.