THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DRILL.
f To sac EDITOR or Ins 8rmeneron."1 Sin, In the delightful article on "The Psychology of Drill" in last week's Spectator I was much struck with the reference to those who cannot keep time, having "no sense of rhythm and beat," the writer pointing out that the sense in question is quite independent of an ear for music. I have noticed this frequently in the collateral case of the viva-vase reading of verse. Over and over again people of undoubted musical knowledge and capacity will spoil the beauty of the rhythm in a way that seems impossible to a person not possessed of what one would consider that advantage. The writer is clearly correct as to the fact, but I, for one, should be very grateful if he could, at some convenient time, furnish as explanation of the apparent anomaly, and so solve what has
always been to me, and doubtless to others, a perfect pnzzle.—
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