READING ALOUD.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As I read the article on this subject •in last week's Spectator I could not help calling to mind a remark once made to me by a friend. He lived in the neighbourhood of Hursley, when John Keble was vicar of the parish. He told me that it was his invariable practice to attend the services of the church because the vicar read the Lessons in such a way that those who listened could not fail to receive a very great benefit; in fact, they were as helpful as a sermon. To take the other side, I remember a vicar who believed in the verbal inspira- tion of the Bible, and who consequently, as he read the Lessons, left out all the words printed in italics, because, as he said, they were not in the original text. It is clear that he often made nonsense of the passage.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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