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MANUAL OF ELOCUTION,

FOR

CLASS AND PRIVATE INSTRUCTION.

BY

MRS. D. M. WARREN,

LATE TEACHER OF ELOCUTION IN VASSAR COLLEGE.

Revised and Enlarged.

PHILADELPHIA:

W. S. FORTESCUE & CO.,

(Successors to E. C. & J. Biddle,)

No. 811 ARCH STREET.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by

W. S. FORTESCUE & CO.,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

DEDICATED

ΤΟ

The Memory of my revered Encle,

THE LATE PROF. WILLIAM RUSSELL,

TO WHOSE PRACTICAL WORKS AND INSTRUC

TION IN ELOCUTION I AM INDEBTED

FOR MUCH OF MY INTEREST

IN THIS NOBLE ART.

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PREFACE.

THE design of this Manual is to furnish the principles

of Elocution in a comprehensive and practical form. They are adapted to all grades of students and schools under the direction of a judicious teacher. Part II. illustrates the principles of Expressive Reading, which, in its highest sense, implies, on the part of the reader, intellectual development and innate emotional power.

The selections under Emotional Analysis are designed as tests of the student's ability to determine the feeling embodied in written language, and to apply correct elements of expression in the reading. This Manual may be used 'with any Reader which the student or teacher may select.

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