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. jons . PART 1. ORTHOPHONY AND ORTHOEPY. I. Introductory Hints and Directions . II. Vowel Sounds . . . . . . . . . III. Consonant Sounds . . . . . . . . PART II. PRINCIPLES IN ELOCUTION. CHAPTER I. EMPHASIS, PAUSES, AND INFLECTIONS. III. Rules for Rhetorical Pauses . 1. The Rising Inflection . . . III. Inflection of the Parenthesis · 95 II. The Orotund . . . . . . . . III. Aspirated Quality . . . . . . . CHAPTER VI. MODULATION AND STYLE OF EXPRESSION. 1. Modulation . . . . . . . . . . 245 II. The Reading of Poetry .' . . . . . . . 248 III. Imitative Reading . . . . . . . . . 255 1. Character of True Eloquence . . . . Daniel Webster 307 2. National Greatness .. . . . . . John Bright 308 3. The Passing of the Rubicon . . . ... Knowles 309 4. Our Duties to Our Country . 8. Grattan's Reply to Mr. Corry . . . . . . . 314 9. Supposed Speech of John Adams . . . Daniel Webster 315 10. The Constitution and the Union 12. Duties of American Citizens . . 20. Nations and Humanity . . . Gco. W. Curtis 327 23. The Birthday of Washington. · · · · · · · · · . 26. · 11. · · · 3. Psalm of Life . . . . . 4. Apostrophe to the Ocean . 5. Battle of Waterloo . . 6. Santa Filomena . . 7. The Death Struggle . . 8. Sandalphon . . . · . 9. The Old Continentals 10. The Winds . . The Day is Done . . 12. The Battlefield . 13. Hymn to Mont Blanc . 14. Morning Hymn . 15. Thanatopsis 16. Gray's Elegy . . 17. Daniel Webster 18. St. Augustine's Ladder . 19. Ring Out, Wild Bells . 20. Summer Rain. . . 21. Hymn to the North Star 22. The American Flag 23. The Chambered Nautilus 24. Kentucky Belle . . 25. The Charcoal Man. • 26. Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill . H. W. Longfellow 312 . . Lord Byron 344 . . Lord Byron 346 . H. W. Longfellou 347 . Sir Walter Scott 349 H. IV. Longfellow 350 . . McMasters. 352 Willium Cullen Bryant 354 . H. W. Longfellow 356 William Cullen Bryant 357 . . Coleridge 359 . . John Milton 362 William Cullen Bryant 363 . . . . . 366 Oliver Wendell Holmes 371 . II. W. Longfellow 373 . . . Tennyson 375 James Russell Lowell 376 IVilliam Cullen Bryant 377 . . Drake 379 Oliver Wendell Holmes 381 Constance F. Woolson 382 . Trowbridge 389 . .0. W. Holmes 391 · · · |