5. It contains clear and concise statements of principles and rules.

6. It is characterized by the copiousness and freshness of the illustrative drill-examples.

It was my good fortune, more than thirty years ago, to be a student under that most critical and scholarly elocutionist and Normal-school instructor, Professor William Russell; and it is natural that I should follow in the steps of my revered instructor. I am also indebted to many excellent manuals on elocution for principles and examples that constitute the common stock of matter on this subject.

I am under obligations to the publishers of the works of American authors for permission to make short extracts from their publications, and in particular, to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for extracts from Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and Emerson.

JOHN SWETT.

CONTENTS.

PART 1. ORTHOPHONY AND ORTHOEPY.

I. Introductory Hints and Directions

II. Vowel Sounds

III. Consonant Sounds

IV. Classification of Elementary Sounds

V. Orthoepy

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35

39

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PART II. PRINCIPLES IN ELOCUTION.

CHAPTER I. EMPHASIS, PAUSES, AND INFLECTIONS.

I. Emphasis

57

II. Pauses

64

1. Grammatical Pauses

65

II. Rhetorical Pauses

65

III. Rules for Rhetorical Pauses

69

IV. Emphatic Pauses

73

III. Inflection

75

1. The Rising Inflection.

82

II. The Falling Inflection

95

III. Inflection of the Parenthesis

109

IV. The Circumflex Inflection

111

V. The Monotone

119

VI. Examples of Pauses, Emphasis, and Inflection

128

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CHAPTER V. QUALITY OF VOICE.

I. Pure Tone

II. The Orotund

III. Aspirated Quality

IV. Guttural Quality

V. The Falsetto .

VI. The Semitone

1. Elocutionary Training

2. Good Reading

3. The Music of the Human Voice

4. The Art of Reading

5. On Learning by Heart

6. School Libraries

7. Poems

277

John S. Hart 279
Prof. Wm. Russell 280

Dr. Rush 281

Lushington 283

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