ezing, 132

Vowels, Shaping mouth for, 134

Vowels, Scale of nature, 135

Opinions of the Press and the Medical and the Musical Professions on the
Author's Book, Lectures, and Teaching.

SIGNOR GARCIA writes to the Author:--

DEAR SIR,--Very many thanks for the copy forwarded to me of your most
interesting work. It will prove of an inestimable advantage to students,
being, in my humble estimation, one of the clearest and most practical
treatises on the subject which contemporary literature has produced.
Accept also my sincere thanks for the description contained in your work
of the origin of the laryngoscope, and believe me, dear sir, yours most
sincerely, M. GARCIA.

THE ATHENAEUM.

Interesting, compared with those previously published, as being written
by a musician and not by a medical man. Hence we are not surprised to
find purely musical questions discussed here with great ability.

NATURE.

The object of this little book is to give singers a plain and
comprehensible view of the musical instrument on which they perform. The
author seems to have succeeded in this attempt remarkably well. He has
evidently had much practical work himself, and has especially set
himself the task of examining the action of the vocal organs during
singing by means of the laryngoscope; and his record of his own
experience in acquiring the use of that beautiful instrument is not only
interesting, but of much practical value. The last section of the book
is devoted to the teachings of the laryngoscope as to the action of the
vocal ligaments in producing voice, with especial reference to the
so-called registers. "A register consists of a series of tones which are
produced by the same mechanism," is his definition (p. 86), which is new
and complete, and he proceeds to explain the different mechanism of each
kind of register as actually observed on singers. There are some good
remarks on breathing (pp. 17-22). All information is given throughout in
clear, intelligible language, and illustrated by fourteen woodcuts....
The book may be safely recommended to all singers, and others who are
desirous of knowing how vocal tones are produced.

SATURDAY REVIEW.

On the important question of the different registers of the voice and
their proper use, Mr. Behnke practically breaks new ground. He has
carefully gone over the whole subject of the production of the voice as
far as the larynx is concerned, and worked it out an