“ELOCUTIONARY MANUAL.”

THE

PRINCIPLES

OF

ELOCUTION,

WITH

EXERCISES AND NOTATIONS

FOR

PRONUNCIATION, INTONATION, EMPHASIS, GESTURE
AND EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION.

BY

ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL,

Author of "VISIBLE SPEECH," "PRINCIPLES OF SPEECH AND DICTIONARY OF
SOUNDS," "EMPHASIZED LITURGY," "STANDARD ELOCUTIONIST,"
"ESSAYS AND POSTSCRIPTS ON ELOCUTION," "LECTURES

4 January, 1892.

From the Library of

THOMAS HILL, D.D.

PREFACE.

In this fifth edition of the "PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION" all the directions and exercises have been again revised, and to a great extent re-written. Much new matter has also been added, including the entire series of "READING EXERCISES MARKED FOR EMPHASIS, CLAUSE, AND PITCH" (pp. 145 to 156). The work is now as perfect as the Author's best efforts can make it. In this form, therefore, it has been for the first time electrotyped in preparation for continued and extended use.

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WASHINGTON, D. C.,

September, 1887.