It is beyond dispute, however, that many young foreigners come to us for their education.
Some of the reformers are scandalized at the sight of a musician in charge of a school where elocution is taught.

They forget that a musician may also be a man of letters--the present director combines these qualifications--and that it is improbable that it will be different in the future.

The teachers of elocution have always been the best that could be found.

Although M.Faure is a musician, he has known how to bring back the classes in tragedy to their original purpose.

For a time they tended towards an objectionable modernism, for they substituted in their competitions modern prose for the classic verse.
And the study of the latter is very profitable.
Not only is there no harm in this union of elocution and music, but it would be useful if singers and composers would take advantage of it to familiarize themselves with the principles of diction, which, in my opinion, are indispensable to both.