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IVISON, PHINNEY, BLAKEMAN, & CO.,
47 & 49 GREENE STREET.

S. C. GRIGGS & CO., CHICAGO.

1867.

EDUCATION DEPT.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by
IVISON, PHINNEY, BLAKEMAN, & Co.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of New York.

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HAVING been professionally engaged a number of years, as a Reader in Public, and also as a Teacher of Elocution in New York, I have frequently been consulted with reference to various works upon the subject. When a thorough inves

desired, I have heartily

tigation, a complete analysis was
recommended "THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN VOICE,"
by Dr. RUSH; otherwise, I have suggested different text-
books, according to the intentions of those making the in-
quiries.

At times, in the latter case, I have had misgivings as to the results of my advice; for, in none of the lesser works I have recommended, would all the means of vocal expression sufficiently correspond in style to those I inculcated, and it semed to be the FORM alone that many persons PARTICULARLY desired.

Furthermore, I have needed a manual by which instruction, in a method which I claim in many respects to be new in its plan and arrangement, could be imparted more reliably than by oral means alone. I have, therefore, prepared this volume, as an improvement upon my former efforts, the last published five years ago, which I now send forth to accomplish what it may in the furtherance of the noble art of reading and speaking well.

In the following treatise I have inserted, occasionally, quotations from authors on art and painting, as well as elocu

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