AN

ELOCUTIONARY MANUAL:

WITH AN

Autroductory Fasug ou the Study of Literature,

AND ON VOCAL CULTURE IN ITS RELATION TO AN

ÆSTHETIC APPRECIATION OF POETRY.

BY

HIRAM CORSON, M.A.,

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, RHETORIC, AND ORATORY, IN THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY.

- PHILADELPHIA:
CHARLES DESILVER; CLAXTON, REMSEN AND
HAFFELFINGER; J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

Boston: NICHOLS & HALL.
New York: OAKLEY, Mason & Co.; A. S. BARNES & Co.; D. APPLETON & Co.-San
Francisco, Cal.: A. L. BANCROFT & Co.-Cincinnati : WILSON, HINKLE & Co.;
ROBERT CLARKE & Co.-Charleston, S. C.: J. M. GREER; EDWARD PERRY.-
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MAN.-Augusta, Ga.: Thos. RICHARDS & Son.-Richmond,

Va.: WOODHOUSE & PARHAN,

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

CHARLES DESILVER in the Clerk's Office of the District Corrt of the United States for the Eastern

District of Pennsylvania.

J. PAGAN & SON,
STEREOTYPERS, PHILAD A.

PRINTED BY E. C. MARKLEY & SON.

TO MY PUPILS

THIS BOOK

18 DEDICATED.

H. C.

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