CONTENTS.

ART.

PART I.

PHYSICAL AND VOCAL TRAINING.

I. POSITION AND CARRIAGE OF THE BODY

I. Sitting Position; II. Poise forward and back; III Position

of Rest; IV. Position of Attention; V. Standing Position;

VI. Poise forward and backward; VII. Holding the Book for

reading; VIII. Speaker's Position.

II. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHEST

I. Active and Passive Chest; II. Percussion of the Chest;

III. Chest Expansion; IV. Percussion with Arm Movements;

V. Shoulder Movements. - Bent Arms; VI. Breathing with

Arm Movements; VII. Deep Breathing.

III. RIGHT USE OF THE VOICE

I. Conversational Tones; II. Question and Answer; III. Famil-

iar Narrative; IV. Vivacious Style of Poetry.

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IV. ARTICULATION

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1. Movement of the Lips and Jaws; II. Articulation of Single

Words; III. Articulation of Phrases; IV. Articulation of

Sentences.

V. SLIDES, OR INFLECTIONS

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I. Falling Inflections; II. Rising Inflections; III. Rising and
Falling Inflections; IV. Circumflex Inflections.

I. Whisper: II. Half-Whisper, or Aspirated Tone; III. Pure

Tone; IV. Orotund.

VII. MOVEMENT, OR RATE OF UTTERANCE

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I. Quick Movement; II. Moderate; III. Slow.

VIII. FORCE.

I. Gentle; II. Moderate; III. Loud; IV. Very Loud.

IX. PITCH OF VOICE

I. High; II. Middle; III. Low.

XXVI.

XXVIII.

XXX.

VI. THE TRUTH SPEAKER

Jacob Abbott

Miss Crompton

VIII. SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND HIS TWO PLANTS

XII. THE CAPTURE OF QUEBEC.

XVI THE BOSTON MASSACRE

XVIII. MY HUNT AFTER THE BABY

XXII. THE SCOTCH WOMAN AND HER TWO SONS.

XXIV. ONCE WELL DONE, TWICE DONE.

ADVENTURE WITH A WHALE .

MALIBRAN AND THE YOUNG MUSICIAN

REHEARSING FOR CHRISTMAS.

XXXII. THE FARMER AND THE FOx

XXXIV. ELOQUENCE OF PATRICK HENRY.

XXXVI. ART AND ARTISTS

S. G. Goodrich

H. W. Beecher

N. Hawthorne.

Helen L. Bostwick

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Theodore Hook

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117

Bancroft

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Krilof

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THE EARTH'S JOURNEY ROUND THE SUN

LXXX. TOM BROWN STARTING FOR RUGBY

LXXXII.

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T. Hughes

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LXXXVIII. A REVOLUTIONARY HERO IN THE PULPIT Samuel Burnham

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XV. BRING BACK MY FLOWERS

XVII. SONG FROM THE SUDS.

XIX. THE FISHERMEN

XXI. SOME MURMUR WHEN THEIR SKY IS CLEAR Dean Trench
XXIII.

SHORT EXTRACTS IN VERSE.

XXV. THE SWALLOW AND HER NEST.

J. T. Trowbridge

Charles Mackay.

D. F. Mc Carthy

J. T. Trowbridge

James G. Percival

C. T. Alexander.

Florence Percy

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THE KING AND THE MILLer of Mansfield Dodsley.

THE RETURN OF COLUMBUS