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iv singable, that in the absence of the music lesson, where the managers of a school could procure even the occasional visits of any person with a voice competent to sing them to the children in the school-room, there are few children in a school who would not rapidly pick up the airs from imitation. On this plan, if those of the children who had the readiest natural ear and voice for a tune were allowed to learn the air by themselves first, the practice of singing might afterwards from them, rapidly spread throughout the school, to an extent quite sufficient for the purposes of recreation. Even where there is a music lesson in the school conducted by a professional person, it may often be prudent to take special care that the design of school-singing, which is to promote a spirit of healthy social cheerfulness and animation, is not overlooked in the desire to produce a few skilful pupils.

H. F.