OR, THE

CULTIVATION OF THE VOICE

IN ELOCUTION.

A Manual of Elementary Exercises,

ADAPTED TO DR. RUSH'S "PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN VOICE," AND
THE SYSTEM OF VOCAL CULTURE INTRODUCED BY

MR. JAMES E. MURDOCH.

DESIGNED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO

RUSSELL'S "AMERICAN ELOCUTIONIST."

COMPILED BY

WILLIAM RUSSELL,

AUTHOR OF "LESSONS IN ENUNCIATION," ETC.

WITH A SUPPLEMENT ON PURITY OF TONE,

BY G. J. WEBB,

PROF. BOSTON ACADEMY OF MUSIC

FORTY-FIFTH EDITION.

BOSTON:

JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY

LATE TICKNOR & Fields, and FIELDS, OSGOOD, & Co.

1876.

85

1816

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by

WILLIAM RUSSELI,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

то

OR. JAMES RUSH,

WHOSE WORK ON

HE FILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN VOICE,

had RENCED DEFINITE AND EXACT INSTRUCTION PRACTICABLE IN

ELOCUTION,

THE FOLLOWING MANUAL

IS

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED