The Portrait of a Scholar And Other Essays Written in Macedonia 1916-1918
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It will not do to read them out.' If the audience is adult, I agree. I do not think I should now care to listen to Ivanhoe^ or even to Vanity Fair. Reading aloud is moreover a very stiff test. I have read Framley Parsonage a dozen times, and like it better on each reading. But when I tried once to read it aloud, I found it would not do, The style is too pedestrian, and the book altogether too naif. Henry James, now, is excellent material ; and gains, I think, in lucidity, if read by a skilful r...eader who knows what is coming. Reading Aloud 47 Reading, like every art, is capable of misuse. It is not impossible for a skilful reader to make bad .writing seem like good. The most gullible of this sophist's victims is himself. Very ordinary stuiF will charm your ear, if you declaim it before the fit has cooled. A week later, and it may seem to have strangely lost its savour. It is a quality of the best writing, that you can hardly read it ill. Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly ? The words have only to be spoken, and the air is full of their melody.
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