..351 .855 325 172. Love of Country.......345 .326 173. Varieties in Verse......346 ...328 174. From Lalla Rookh......349 159. Rocks of my Country...328 175. Moloch and Satan... ...350 160. Brutus, on the Death of 176. The Fireman.... .329 177. The Dying Brigand.....353 161. Varieties in Verse... .330 178. Soliloquy from Manfred.354 162. Othello's Apology... ...332 179. Ginevra Parrhasius... ..342 188. gade....... 191. Dr. Bashaw's Oration...374 206. 193. The Directing Post.....375 208. 194. Parody,-The Old Oaken 209. 195. Lyceum Speech of Mr. 210. 197. Eloquence in a Western 213. 198. Poetry Now-a-days. ...382 215. 199. Daniel versus Dishcloth..383 216. 200. Housekeeper's Soliloquy 386 217. ....... .410 istrate...... 221. The Nantucket Skipper. 409 239. 223. Parody on the Burial of 240. 225. Buzfuz versus Pickwick.413 243. 226. Socrates Snooks........416 244 227. Varieties in Verse.. PAGE. ....434 230. The Dapple Mare.......422 247. 231. First Appearance in type 424 248. 232. Love and Physic.......425 249. 253. The Old Arm Chair....455 | 265. 255. Who shall Judge a Man? 457 267. 256. Highland Mary........458 268. 257. The Rook and the Lark..459 269. 258. The Old Man Dreams..460 270. 262. The Isle of Long Ago...465 273. ELOCUTION. ELOCUTION is the art of reading and speaking correctly. Its rules relate chiefly to the management of the voice in the expression of thought and emotion. The vocal qualifications, necessary to enable the reader or speaker to bring out the sense and sentiment of discourse in a pleasing and impressive manner, are: First, A clear, full, resonant voice. Second, A perfectly distinct, and correct articulation. Third, Such a control of the voice, as to be able to vary its modulations at pleasure. Ignorance of the right way of using the lungs and the larynx, in speaking, reading, and singing, has caused more cases of bronchitis and pulmonary consumption among students, vocalists, clergymen and other public speakers, than all other causes combined. a The right use of the breathing apparatus, in connection with the exercise of the voice, ought, therefore, to be the first subject to which the attention of the student of Elo、 cution is called. Before the pupil is permitted to read sentence, he must be taught, not by precept, but by exami ple, how to manage the breath while exercising the voice, The child thus trained will speak, read or sing, in clear, full, natural tone, and will grow up, in a great meas. are, free from the worst faults and defects in Elocution. 11 a BREATHING. Stand or sit erect; keep the head up and the chest expanded; throw the shoulders well back; place the hands upon the hips, with the fingers pressing upon the abdomen, and the thumbs extending backward; inhale the breath slowly, until the lungs are fully inflated, retaining the breath for a few moments, then breathing it out as slowly. as it was taken in. Let the chest rise and fall freely at every inspiration, and take care not to make the slightest aspirate sound, in taking in or giving out the breath. Continue to take in and throw out the breath with increasing rapidity, until you can instantly inflate, and, as suddenly, empty the lungs. Repeat this exercise several times a day, and continue it as long as it is unattended with dizziness or other unpleasant feelings. ELEMENTARY SOUNDS. The Elementary Sounds of the English Language are classified under three great divisions: First, the Vocals; Second, the Subvocals; Third, the Aspirates. VOCALS. Vocals consist of pure tone, and are subdivided into monothongs, which have the same sound from the commencement to the close; into the dipthongs, which begin with one sound and end with another; and into the short vocals, which differ from the monothongs only in the man ner in which they are uttered. SUBVOCALS. The subvocals possess vocality, but in an inferior degree and, in all of them, the vocalized breath is more or less obstructed. The subvocals are divided into the correlatives, each of which terminates in an aspirate sound; into the nasals, in which the vocalized breath is passed through the nasal passage; into the liquids, so called from their special dependence upon the tongue; and into the coalescents, from their readily uniting with the vocal sounds. ASPIRATES. The aspirate sounds have no vocal tone, and, consequently, differ most from the vocals. They are divided into the explodents and the continuants. CHART OF THE ELEMENTARY SOUNDS. SINGLE OPEN VOWEL SOUNDS OR MONOTHONGS. 1. e, as heard in 2. a, 66 me, eve, thee, free, &c. ale, may, they, pay. as heard before r, in care, there, air, pear. 3. a, |