COMPRISING REMARKS ON THE EFFECT OF MANNER IN PUBLIC DIS- BY WILLIAM RUSSELL, AUTHOR OF ORTHOPHONY, THE AMERICAN ELOCUTIONIST, THE WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY EDWARDS A. PARK, D. D., PRO- SECOND EDITION. ANDOVER: WARREN F. DRAPER, BOSTON: GOULD AND LINCOLN. 1861. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by WILLIAM RUSSELL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. PREFACE. THE design of the present work, is, as intimated in the title, to furnish a manual of elocution, prepared with particular reference .to the purposes of the pulpit. The author's previous publications, the American Elocutionist, and the volume on Orthophony, are intended for general use, in all literary establishments in which elocution forms a department of instruction. These two manuals furnish, it is thought, all the requisite means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the principles of elocution, — either in a practical or a scientific form, at the option of the student. The Orthophony prescribes the elementary discipline by which to train the organs to vigor and pliancy, and to mould the voice, in adaptation to the various modes of expressive utterance. It furnishes a series of elementary lessons on the systematic cultivation of the voice, — adapted to the theory and nomenclature of Dr. Rush. It includes, also, the methods of instruction, and the forms of exercise, introduced by Mr. J. E. Murdoch, in his system of "vocal gymnastics,” along with those which are used by the author of the present volume, in his modes of practical training. The Elocutionist presents, more particularly, the correct pronunciation of words, and the application of the rules of elocution, in connection with rhetoric and prosody. It comprises a course of practical instruction in enunciation, inflection, emphasis rhetorical pauses, expressive tone, and the rudiments of gesture The general principles of elocution, however, as a science, and its practice, as an art, need particular modification, to accommodate them to the appropriate purposes of professional culture, for stu 795 4015 (RECAP), ' ' G dents of theology. The style of voice, adapted to the correct and The plan on which the contents of the following pages, are ar- 1st, Introductory Observations on the importance of Elocution, 2d, Remarks on the effect of Manner, in Voice and Gesture, as 3d, A brief Summary of the most important Principles of Elocu- tion, with particular reference to their exemplification in the read- ing of the Scriptures, hymns, and sermons. 4th, Exercises in these forms of reading, selected and arranged for the particular application of rules and principles. 5th, A brief statement of the Principles of Gesture. 6th, Miscellaneous Extracts, for practice in Reading and Speak- ing, intended to be analyzed by the student, and classified, in their various contents, under the points of practical elocution which they |