19 SEPTEMBER 1885, Page 24

The Child's Voice. By Emil Behnke and Lennox Browne. (Sampson

Low and Co.)—The authors have collected opinions from a great number of practical teachers as to the effects on the voice of singing by children, especially on the important point whether boys should continue to exert the voice while the "cracking" is taking place. There is some diversity in the opinions thus obtained (209 papers were answered by teachers, and 610 circulars asking for information as to personal experience by students) ; bat, on the whole, there seems to be a general acquiescence in the belief which would oertainly commend itself a priori, that the less the unformed organ is tried the better.