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  _A COMPANION TO BAKER'S READING CLUB._


  ELOCUTION SIMPLIFIED;
  WITH
  AN APPENDIX ON LISPING, STAMMERING, STUTTERING,
  AND OTHER DEFECTS OF SPEECH.

  BY
  WALTER K. FOBES,
  GRADUATE OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ORATORY.


  WITH AN INTRODUCTION
  BY
  GEORGE M. BAKER,
  AUTHOR OF THE READING-CLUB SERIES, ETC.


  BOSTON:
  LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

  NEW YORK:
  CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.
  1877.




  COPYRIGHT.
  1877,
  BY WALTER K. FOBES.




  THIS LITTLE BOOK
  IS DEDICATED TO
  PROF. LEWIS B. MONROE,
  IN TESTIMONY OF APPRECIATION OF HIS MANY QUALIFICATIONS AS A
  TEACHER OF THIS ART, AND OF THE RESPECT AND AFFECTION
  WITH WHICH HE WILL EVER BE
  REGARDED BY HIS FRIEND
  AND PUPIL,
  THE AUTHOR.




PREFACE.

      "Why write this book?" say you.
      "Because it is needed," say I.


There is no "digest" of elocution that is both methodical and practical,
and that is low in price, now in the market.

This book is an epitome of the science of elocution, containing nothing
that is not necessary for you to know, if you wish to make yourself a
good reader or speaker.

You who will thoroughly study and digest this book, and then put