To meet in some degree this demand these essays and principles are given to the public, with the natural wish of any one who takes charge of a work of this character that, instead of being a mute, it had a voice and could speak.

However irrelevant may appear to the novitiate some of the things suggested in this book as useful for practice, he may be assured that the experience of the author during almost a lifetime of teaching has found them not only necessary, but fruitful of good results; and nothing but what has been proved to be altogether essential has found place in this work.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

READING-BREATH-SPEECH-AIR-MANNER OF BREATHING.

....11

EXPULSION OF

BREATH-SIGHING

.....

..14

CHAPTER III.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF VOCALIZATION—THE LARYNX-THE VOICE-SPEECH-

LANGUAGE-THE ALPHABET-THREE DISTINCT CLASSES OF LETTERS...18

CHAPTER IV.

THE VOWELS-THE ENGLISH ALPHABET-VOWELS AND ASPIRATES-VIBRA-

TIONS OF ATMOSPHERE IN SPEAKING AND SINGING-VOWEL-SOUNDS THE

MOTIVE POWER OF SPEECH..........

..23

CHAPTER V.

VOCAL GYMNASTICS-EXERCISES IN ACCENT AND EMPHASIS-SOUNDS OF THE

LETTER A..........

...26

CHAPTER VI.

VOCAL GYMNASTICS, CONTINUED SOUNDS OF E; SOUNDS OF I; SOUNDS OF 0;

SOUNDS OF U—QUANTITY AND QUALITY......

..31

CHAPTER VII.

PITCH OF THE VOICE- DIATONIC SCALE-SCALE OR LADDER FOR THE

VOICE.........

...35

CHAPTER VIII.

ELEMENTS OF SPEECH-EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION-TABLE OF ASPIRATES-

ASPIRATES AND SUBVOWELS-TABLE OF SUBVOWELS.................

....40

CHAPTER IX.

ASPIRATES-Manner of formING ASPIRATES-Sounds of C; F; H; P; Q;

S; Z; K; T...............

.43

CHAPTER X.

ASPIRATES, CONTINUED-B; D; G; J; L; M; N; R; V; W; X-DIGRAPHS:

ch, sh, gh, ph, th, wh.......

.48

CHAPTER XI.

ARTICULATION-GYMNASTICS OF THE VOICE-EXERCISES FOR RUNNING THE

GAUNTLET THE "LEADER" EXERCISE....

..52

THE CIRCUMFLEX, OR WAVE-EMPHASIS-STRESS AND QUANTITY-RHETOR-

ICAL PAUSES.........

..........66

CHAPTER XIV.

CLIMAX-DEEP BREATHING-AIR-STAMMERING.........

CHAPTER XV.

........81

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PITCH THE OROTUND VOICE-THE FALSETTO-THE CONVERSATIONAL

VOICE THE GRAVE VOICE-THE TREMOLO-THE WHISPER-VARIOUS

MOVEMENTS OF VOICE............

..........93

CHAPTER XVI.

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MODULATION - DELIVERY-EXAMPLES IN VARIOUS STYLES: TENDERNESS;

RAPID, LIGHT, AND BRILLIANT; AWFUL; THREATENING; REVENGE;

SCORN; DISGUST AND CONTEMPT; SARCASM; REMORSE AND HUMILIA-

TION; CONTRITION AND DOUBT; FEAR; LOVE; SORROW AND GRIEF;

HORROR AND AGONY.....

...........102

CHAPTER XVII.

EXERCISE IN RAPID AND PARENTHETICAL MOVEMENTS OF VOICE-ECHO-

HOW TO GIVE IMITATIONS-EXAMPLES..

.122

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE REVERENTIAL STYLE-TRUE EMPHASIS-NAME OF THE DEITY-

EXERCISES..

.....152

CHAPTER XIX.

GESTURE AND DEPORTMENT-ARBITRARY RULES-PANTOMIME-NECESSITY

OF GESTURE-FAULTS OF ORATORS-GRACE AND DIGNITY-STUDY OF

THE PASSIONS-OBSERVATIONS OF NATURE-SELECTIONS....................173

The Long Expected: True Love Never Lost....Massey

...128

Creation Proves the Existence of God.............L. M. Double.......

.162