With the Autions compliments

ON

ELOCUTION,

BY

ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL,

AUTHOR OF

"PRINCIPLES OF SPEECH AND DICTIONARY OF SOUNDS;"

"PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION;

"VISIBLE SPEECH AND UNIVERSAL ALPHABETICS;'
"SOUNDS AND THEIR RELATIONS;"

"LINE WRITING,"

&c., &c., &c.

NEW YORK:

48 UNIVERSITY PLACE,
EDGAR S. WERNER,

1886.

PREFACE.

The author's systematic treatises and text-books on Elocution, Alphabetics, Defects of Speech, etc., have long been honoured with a wide circle of students. To these Works the reader must be referred for a complete development of the subjects discursively treated in the "Essays and Postscripts" which compose this volume. Of the latter, the author can only hope that they may, at least, prove incentives to further study on the part of interested readers.

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