This singular state of things is doubtless due to the peculiar acoustical properties of public buildings.

The building possesses about the best acoustical properties of any place of worship in Preston.

At present the space is condensed, and this tends to concentrate both warmth, and what acoustical gentlemen term, reverberation.

Here he had his apparatus, and the basement was littered with a curious combination of electrical and acoustical devicesmagnets, batteries, coils of wire, tuning-forks, speaking-trumpets, etc.