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STANDARD TEXT-BOOKS ON READING AND ELOCUTION.

Kidd's New Elocution.
Kidd's Rhetorical Reader.
McGuffey's Juvenile Speaker.

McGuffey's Eclectic Speaker.

Cole's Institute Reader.

Venable's School Dialogues and Plays.

Peaslee's Graded Selections for Memorizing.
McGuffey's Revised Readers.

Descriptive Circulars and Prices on Application.

COPYRIGHT,

1883,

VAN ANTWERP, BRAGG & Co.

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PREFACE.

OVER twenty-five years ago the first edition of Kidd's Vocal Culture and Elocution was published. In some respects it differed from all other books on the subject. It ignored some principles which were generally regarded as well established, and rejected precepts and rules the reliability of which had seldom been questioned. Notwithstanding the objections made to it on these grounds, together with all the opposing influences against which it had to contend, it was favorably received from the first. The number of copies sold, and the number of schools, seminaries, and colleges into which it had been introduced, year after year, rapidly increased. It still retains its popularity, and continues to be regarded as one of the most practical books on the subject; but I believe that the New Elocution will prove to be, in most, if not in all, respects, better adapted to the needs of both teachers and students of Elocution, than the Vocal Culture and Elocution. The new book contains much new and important matter; fuller information on essential points; a greater number of valuable exercises; and of new and appropriate examples for the illustration and exemplification of the rules and principles presented.

The examples for elementary practice, and the descriptive, senatorial, dramatic, and other pieces have been selected with reference to the value of the information they contain, the purity of the sentiments expressed, and their adaptation to the uses for which they are intended. Taken collectively, they make a large and choice variety well suited to illustrate every form of thought, every kind of sentiment, emotion, or passion, and every style of composition and delivery.

In the exercises on the elementary sounds, the words containing the sounds--to which the attention is specially directed—are generally so placed in the examples that they, and the whole passage, can easily be given with proper emphasis and correct expression.

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