READING ALOUD
Reading aloud was usual in home life when elderly people of today were young. ' In "Thorn and Flower," Mr. J. Lewis May recalls that his father read Scott's novels to fireside groups. "I imagine," Mr. May continues, "that, like family prayers and a good many other salutary customs, the practice of family reading has fallen into desuetude. • The cinema and, above all, the wireless have ousted' it. Indeed, firesides themselves are no longer* in fashion,- and how could you read Tvanhoe' beside a radiator or an electric stove?. .' ' : "Perhaps ;that- is one of the reasons for the decline of Scott in popular favour. 'He. went out with the fire. When central heating came in he made his bow; and it seems to me that the style, the diction1 of our literary men, has somewhat declined in consequence. It has become less rhythmical, • less harmonious, less dignified. It does not move to statefy music."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 28
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155READING ALOUD Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 28
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