A TEXT-BOOK OF ELOCUTION BY MARIA PORTER BRACE, A.B. (MRS. KIMBALL) LATE TEACHER OF ELOCUTION IN VASSAR COLLEGE AND IN THE LEACH, SHEWELL, & SANBORN BOSTON AND NEW YORK 3.7156 GARVARD COLLER OCT 5 1904 LIBRARY COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY LEACH, SHEWELL, & SANBORN. C. J. PETERS & SON, PRESS OF BERWICK & SMITH. DEDICATION. THIS little book is dedicated, in the words of Quintilian, to "Him who is so qualified by nature that Rules will not fail to be of use to him." PREFACE. In this age of book-making, every new treatise should offer an apology for its being. Such an apology may be particularly necessary in the case of a text-book of Elocution. Every "Reader" contains a preface which is supposed to embody the principles of the art of speaking, and there are also special treatises. Most teachers of Elocution, however, prefer, very wisely, to arrange their own courses of reading for their pupils — associating the practice of reading aloud with the critical study of literature. Having no text-book, the teacher must make his own verbal statement of the principles of Elocution. But students, whether they are boys and girls in preparatory schools, undergraduates in colleges, or young people who are fitting themselves for the pulpit or the stage, need constantly before them a concise statement of the rules of their art. The "Text-book of Elocution" aims to set forth, upon a scientific basis, the laws of sound as applied to articulate speech. It claims to do away with superfluous and fanciful terms, and reduce the sub |