cover that every thought, sentiment, passion and emotion has its peculiar method of manifestion, requiring the employment of appropriate Quality, Force, Stress, Pitch, Movement, Slides, Pauses and Grouping. This principle is the science of expression; its application is the art of reading. To aid the pupil in mastering both this science and art, illustrations in nature are cited, concise directions are given and numerous examples from representative writers are introduced. These selections illustrate nearly every human idea; and their thorough study and frequent reading, with the aid of the appended KEY, will accomplish more than the unguided perusal of many volumes of miscellaneous reading matter. 3. Finally, to read with that effectiveness which shall convey to the hearers fully and clearly the meaning of an author requires absolute command of those elements of expression which are peculiarly adapted to the thought to be expressed. A knowledge of these elements, and facility in their correct use is attained by simple definition and appropriate exercises. 4. Part IV. is devoted to Action. It is intended as a guide in securing a more healthful and graceful position in reading, and in cultivating a correct taste. in the application of gesture to public speaking. The subject is philosophically developed by referring the learner to nature for the reason of every action employed in the illustration of thought. 5. Part V. seeks to develop intelligent reading by the perception and conception of the thought through a rigid analysis of the sentence, termed Grouping. The This book is designed to be supplementary to the That Common School Elocution" AUGUST 5, 1882. AUTHOR. PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION. Acting upon the solicited hints of more than a hundred teachers now using the "Common School Elocution," many new features have been inserted in the body of this work, and a Part VI., devoted to Original Discourse and Extemporaneous Speech, has |