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Adapted,

V. VOCAL TRAINING.

1. RHETORICAL PAUSES

92

II. GRAMMATICAL PAUSES

92

31. The Builders

97

32. Character of True Eloquence

98

33. The Crowded Street

William Cullen Bryant 99

34. Benj. Franklin's Moral Code

101

35. Mrs. Caudle's Lecture on Shopping Douglas Jerrold 102

36. Wouter Van Twiller

Washington Irving 103

37. The Union

Daniel Webster 106

38. The Seven Ages of Man

William Shakespeare 107

39. A Famous Sea-Fight

108

40. The Settlement of California

109

41. Oliver Goldsmith

112

42. The Village Preacher

Oliver Goldsmith 114

43. Civilization

115

44. Superstitious Beliefs

Adapted, from Clodd 117

45. Myths about Eclipses

118

46. Rhyme of the Rail

John G. Saxe 119

47. Liberty of the Press

Col. E. D. Baker 121

48. Education in the United States

Daniel Webster 122

49. Hints about Letter Writing

123

50. St. Augustine's Ladder

H. W. Longfellow 125

51. Julius Cæsar .

James A. Froude 127

52. Transposition of Poetry into Prose

130

53. Washington Irving

132

54. Midnight Adventure of Ichabod Crane Washington Irving 134

55. Arnold Winkelried

James Montgomery 139

56. Esquimau Dog Teams

141

57. Greece

Lord Byron 145

58. Economy of Time

146

59. Thanatopsis

William Cullen Bryant 149

60. Rienzi to the Romans

Mary Russell Mitford 151

61. London

153

62. Bernardo Del Carpio

Mrs. F. D. Hemans 156

63. Glaciers

159

64. The Glove and the Lions

Leigh Hunt 162

65. The Clansman's Revenge

Charles Mackay 164

66. School-Master Jacob's Scrap-Books Mrs. Annic A. Preston 167

67. What Constitutes a State

Sir William Jones 170

68. The Voices of the Dead

Orville Dewey 170

69. Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument Daniel Webster 172

70. Evening

H. I. Longfellow 173

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71. Labor

Orville Dewey 174

72. Supplementary Selections

175

PHONIC OR DIACRITICAL MARKS

176

TABLE OF ELEMENTARY SOUNDS

177

CLASSIFICATION OF THE CONSONANT SOUNDS

178

William Shakespeare 183

PART II.

1. William Shakespeare

181

2. The Funeral of Julius Cæsar

3. Good Reading

John S. Hart 192

I. VOCAL TRAINING.-MOVEMENT, RATE, OR TIME 193

4. John Greenleaf Whittier

196

5. Skipper Ireson's Ride

John G. Whittier 198

II. VOCAL TRAINING.-FORCE OF VOICE

202

6. The Bee Pastures of California. Part I. John Muir 206

7. The Bee Pastures of California. Part II. John Muir 209

III. VOCAL TRAINING.–THE READING OF POETRY 213

8. Modulation of the Voice

Lloyd 214

9. Battle of Waterloo

Lord Byron 215

10.

Faithless Nelly Gray

Thomas Hood 217

IV. VOCAL TRAINING.–STRESS

219

11. The Arsenal

H. IV. Longfellow 223

12. Mrs. Caudle on Umbrellas

Douglas Jerrold 225

13. Oliver Wendell Holmes

228

14. Manners From Holmes's Professor at the Breakfast-Table 229

15. The Chambered Nautilus

Oliver Wendell Holmes 230

16. Good News

Robert Browning 232

17. The Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Dickens's Child's History of England 234

18. The White-Headed Eagle

Alexander Wilson 235

19. Santa Filomena

H. W. Longfellow 237

20. The Fourth of July

Daniel Webster 238

21. Dogs and Masters

Grant Allen 240

22. Orient Yourself

Horace Mann 243

23. Charles Dickens

245

24. A School of Facts

Charles Dickens 247

V. VOCAL TRAINING.–PITCH, OR KEY

252

25. The Coyote

S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain) 258

26. Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 260

27. Washington's Birthday.

Daniel Webster 262

28. The Shipwreck

Charles Dickens 263

268

VI. VOCAL TRAINING.-QUALITY OF VOICE

Liberty

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29. Apostropbe to the Ocean

Lord Byron 273

30. William Cullen Bryant

275

31. The Winds

William Cullen Bryant 276

32. To a Water-Fowl

William Cullen Bryant 278

33. Advice to Boys

Professor Huxley 280

34. Ode on the Passions

William Collins 283

35. Poetry

Percy B. Shelley 286

36. In Favor of Liberty

Patrick Henry 288

37. The Constitution and Union

Daniel Webster 291

VII. VOCAL TRAINING.-PRONUNCIATION

292

38. John Milton

296

39. Invocation of Mirth (L'Allegro)

John Milton 297

40. Morning Hymn

From Milton's “ Paradise Lost” 299

41. Books

William Ellery Channing 300

42. Cricket on the Hearth.

Charles Dickens 301

43. Brutus and Cassius

William Shakespeare 304

44. Astrology

Adapted, from Clodd 308

45. Ralph Waldo Emerson

309

46. Behavior

From Emerson's “Conduct of Life” 311

VIII. VOCAL TRAINING.

I. ARTICULATION

313

ORTHOEPY

314

III. PRONUNCIATION

315

47. Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard Thomas Gray 316

48. The Astronomer's Vision

II.

Paraphrased from the German, vy Prof: 0. N. Mitcheli 323

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49. In Favor of Independence

50. Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu

51. The American Flag

52. The Constitution

53. Spartacus to the Gladiators

54. For A' That, and A' That

55. Tribute to Robert Burns

56. James Russell Lowell

57. The First Snow-Fall

58. Old Church Bells.

59. Crusader and Saracen

60. Supplementary Reading

Daniel Webster 325

Sir Walter Scott 329

Joseph Rodman Drake 335

Daniel Webster 337

E. Kellogg 338

Robert Burns 340

John G. Whittier 342

343

James R. Lowell 344

James R. Lowell 345

Sir Walter Scott 347

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