28 JUNE 1890, Page 42

Practical Hints on the Public Reading of the Liturgy. By

the Rev. J. H. Whitehead, M.A. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Whitehead has gone with praiseworthy diligence through the Book of Common Prayer, and marked the pauses, varieties of emphasis, and intonations which are suitable, he thinks, for the due expression of its meaning. There has been for some time a reaction in favour of a reading which it is not too much to describe as destitute of all expression, and which even goes far towards the destruction of all meaning. And, indeed, this is a less evil than the detestable "preaching " of the prayers which it superseded. Still, there are many clergymen to whom such hints as those which Mr. Whitehead gives in this volume may be welcome, as they certainly would be useful.