CONTENTS.

ART.

PART I.

PRACTICAL ELOCUTION.

I. STANDARD DIRECTIONS

II. ESSENTIAL POINTS IN PRACTICE

I. Pleasant Quality of Tone; II, Articulation; III. Fullness

and Power.

I. Falling Inflections; II. Rising Inflections; III. Rising

and Falling Inflections; IV. Minor Rising Inflections;

V. Minor Falling Inflections; VI. Circumflex Inflections;

VII. Monotone.

IV. DIFFERENT QUALITIES OF VOICE

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I. Whispering; II. Half-whisper, or Aspirated Tone; III.

Pure Tone; IV. Orotund; V. Aspirated Orotund,

V. MOVEMENT, OR RATE OF UTTERANCE

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I. Rapid Movement; II. Moderate; III. Slow; IV. Very

Slow.

VI. FORCE

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

VII. PITCH, OR MODULATION

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I. High Pitch; II. Middle Pitch; III. Low Pitch; IV. Very

Low.

VIII. TRANSITION

IX. IMITATIVE MODULATION

X. STYLE.

I. Conversational; II. Light Narrative, III. Narrative and

Descriptive; IV. Didactic; V. Public Address; VI. De-

clamatory; VII. Emotional.

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VIII. THE HEROINE OF NANCY. (Part First.)

IX. THE HEROINE OF NANCY. (Part Second.)

XI.

HANDSOME IS THAT HANDSOME

XXVIII. ARRAIGNMENT OF CATILINE.

XXXII. TROUT-FISHING

XXXIV. ONE OF MR. CROWFIELD'S MOODS.

XXXVI. THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS. . .

XXXVIII. PATIENT CONTINUANCE IN WELL-

DOING

XL. THE UNKNOWN WRECK.

XLII. SYMPATHY WITH THE GREEKS.

XLIV. CHARACTER OF

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Convers Francis

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70

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Edward Everett

G. H. Lewes

Charles Dickens

J. G. Whittier.

William Ware

J. Brown, M.D.

A. H. Everett

CXXV. REVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE
CXXVIII. THE POWER OF POETRY IN BAT-

TLE

Rev. H. McMillan, 361

F. W. Robertson 370

LXXXIII. CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.

LXXXVII. THE EVE OF WATERLOO

O. W. Holmes

J. T. Trowbridge. 156

T. B. Read.

Gerald Griffin

Joaquin Miller

Spectator.

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168

Moore

Tennyson

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Schiller

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Thomas Moore

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Theodore Tillon