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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 in
practice what you here have learned, will have started on the road, the
goal of which is Oratory.




CONTENTS.


                                                                  PAGE
  PREFACE                                                            5
  INTRODUCTION                                                      11
  ACKNOWLEDGMENT                                                    15
    METHOD OF STUDY OF ELOCUTION                                    15

  PART I.
  PHYSICAL GYMNASTICS                                               17
    ATTITUDE                                                        17
      Standing Position                                             17
      Speaker's Position                                            18
      Sitting Position                                              18
      Changing Position                                             18
      Poise of Body                                                 18
      Rising on Toes                                                19
      Holding the Book                                              19
      Note on Attitude                                              19
    CHEST EXPANSION                                                 19
      Active and Passive Chest                                      19
      Arms at Side                                                  19
      Fore-arm Vertical                                             20
      Full-arm Percussion                                           20
      Hand Percussion                                               20
    BODY MOVEMENTS                                                  21
      Bend Forward and Back                                         21
      Bend Right and Left                                           21
      Turn Right and Left                                           21
    NECK MOVEMENTS                                                  21
      Bend Forward and Back                                         21
      Bend Right and Left                                           21
      Turn Right and Left                                           21
      Note on Physical Gymnastics                                   21

  PART II.
  VOCAL GYMNASTICS                                                  22
    BREATHING                                                       22
      Abdominal                                                     22
      Costal                                                        23
      Dorsal                                                        23
      Puffing Breath                                                23
      Puffing Breath, with pause                                    23
      Puffing Breath, breathe between                               23
      Holding the Breath                                            24
    TONE                                                            24
      Glottis Stroke                                                24
      Soft Tones                                                    25
      Swelling Tones                                                25
    PITCH                                                           25
      Learn Scale                                                   26
      Chant Sentences                                               26
      Read Sentences                                                26
    INFLECTION                                                      26
      Major Falling                                                 26
      Major Rising                                                  27
      Major Rising and Falling                                      27
      Minor Rising and Falling                                      27
      Circumflex                                                    27
      Monotone                                                      27
    QUALITY                                                         28
      Whisper                                                       28
      Aspirated                                                     28
      Pure                                                          28
      Orotund                                                       28
    FORCE                                                           29
      Gentle                                                        29
      Moderate                                                      29
      Loud                                                          29
    STRESS                                                          29
      Radical                                                       29