Contrast and Comparison, 59.
Control, strength in self, 107-08.
Conversation, principles of reading
and speech derived from, 9-10;
the basis of naturalness in reading,
22; vocal characteristics of, illus-
trated, 22; prevalent faults in,
127; qualities of voice in, 207-08.
Corinthians, 91.
Criticism, 320.

Crossing the Bar, 251.
Crothers, Samuel McChord, A Com-
munity of Humorists, 128.
Curtis, George William, The Leader-
ship of Educated Men, 176–77.

Dante, Alighieri, The Inferno, 36.
Darkness, 210.

Dialect in Literature, 40.

Diaphragm, action of, in speech, 291

-92.

Dickens, Charles, quotation from,
38; A Christmas Carol, 84; 86;
157-59; 221-23; 255-57; Dombey
and Son, 162; Oliver Twist, 226-
28; The Pickwick Papers, 40-41;
The Uncommercial Traveller, 93.
Dickens in Camp, 36.
Dissertation on Roast Pig, 68.
Dombey and Son, 162.
Dowden, Edward, quotation from
New Studies in Literature, 5-6.
Downfall and Refuge of Ancient Cio-
ilization, 65.

Drake, Joseph Rodman, The Ameri-
can Flag, 135.
Drifting, 269-71.

Drummond, Henry, A Talk on Books,
63.

Each in His Own Tongue, 192-93.
Ecclesiastes, 153–54.

Elegy in a Country Churchyard, 90;

187.

Eliot, Charles William, Uses of Edu-
cation for Business, 72.

Eliot, George, Silas Marner, 35.
Elocution, affectation in, 7; preju-
dice against, 108.

Eloquence, relation of, to poetry,
113-14.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Nature, 42;
Woodnotes, 66.

Emotion, relation of thought to, 6-
7; in literature, 105; the source of
impressive speech, 106; assumed,
107; hesitancy to express, 110-11;
honest expression of, commands
respect, 111; expressed in rhythm,
161; response to, in reading poetry,
164; influence of, on inflection,
244-48; response to, 318.
Emphasis, by inflection, 53; by
change of pitch, 54; cause and me-
thods of, 83; pause as a means of,
84; vocal force as a means of, 85-
86; prolongation of vowels as a
means of, 86; faults in, and value
of study of, 87-88; problems in,

to, 164-69.

Energy, note on vocal, 324-25.
Enoch Arden, 68.

Enunciation, distinctness depends
on clear, 285; 287; indistinctness
due to careless, 305-06; exercises
in, 309-11; general exercises in,
310-11; note on, 329.
Essay on Biography, 91.
Eternal Goodness, The, 127.
Eulogy on Lafayette, 134-35.
Evangeline, 89; 272-73.
Everett, Edward, Eulogy on Lafay-
ette, 134-35.

Exercises, purpose and use of, 10-11.
Experience, reader must understand
author's, 105.

Expression, mental and emotional
causes of faulty, 10; individuality
in, 108-09.

pause, 30; and change of pitch,
31-32; and interrupted utterance,
32-33; causes of faulty, 33-34;
and breathing, 33-34; and punc-
tuation of, 34-35; examples of
faulty, 35-36; emphasis of details
in, 36-37; problems in, 37-50;
note on, 321.

Hale, Edward Everett, The Man
Without a Country, 73-82.
Hamlet, 35; 62; 90; 151–52.
Harte, Bret, Frontier Stories, 18;
Dickens in Camp, 36; 297.
Henry, O., The Gift of the Magi, 96-

101.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, The Auto-
crat of the Breakfast-Table, 62;
95-96; 207-08; 283-84; The One-
Hoss Shay, 180–81.

Hood, Thomas, The Bridge of Sighs,
241-42.

House and the Road, The, 91.
Hovey, Richard, At the End of the
Day, 159-60; The Taliesin, 297.
How They Brought the Good News
from Ghent to Aix, 131.

Omar Khayyám, 89.

Flower in the crannied wall, 182.
Fool's Prayer, The, 46-48.

Force, vocal, as a means of emphasis,
85; depends on speaker's emotion-
al attitude, 106; and attention of
the audience, 106.

From a College Window, 240.
Funeral Oration on Garfield, 236.
Future of the South, The, 63.

Gareth and Lynette, 39.
Genesis, 133.

Gift of the Magi, The, 96-101.
Gilfillan, George, Bards of the Bible,
216-17.

Gladness of Nature, The, 128.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, quo-
tations from, 15; 89.
Grady, Henry W., The New South,
65; 162.

Gray, Thomas, Elegy in a Country
Churchyard, 90; 187.

Frolic, 148-49.

Hunt, Leigh, Abou Ben Adhem, 41-
42.

Hunting Song, 36.

Huxley, Thomas, A Liberal Educa-
tion, 45-46; On a Piece of Chalk,
146-47.

Hymn (Addison), 138-39.
Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Na-
tivity, 39.

Hymn to Mont Blanc, 209; 254–55.

Imitation, effective speech not ac-
quired by, 8; 9; power not gained
by, 110.

Impressiveness, and emotion, 105-
133.

In Memoriam, 35; 224; 240–41.
In the Wilderness, 37.
Incomplete thought, how shown, 52;
56; types of, 56-57.
Inferno, The, 36.

Inflection, definition of, 52; and

244-48.

Ingersoll, Robert G., Address at His
Brother's Funeral, 188; A Vision
of War, 242.

Intensity, principles of, in speech,

125-29.

Interest, depends on knowledge, 7.
Intonation, a fault in melody, 249-

50.

Irving, Washington, The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow, 23-29; 116-23;
Stratford-on-Avon, 30.

Jackson, Helen Hunt, Spinning,

144-45.

James, William, Talks to Teachers,
66-67.

Jerome, Jerome K., Three Men in a

Boat, 190-92; 262-63.
Johnson, Samuel, sentence from, 89.
Jolly Old Pedagogue, The, 225-26.
Jonson, Ben, Catiline, 94.
Jordan, David Starr, The Call of the
Twentieth Century, 214; Men Told
Me, Lord, 271-72.

Julius Cæsar, 41; 63-64; 69; 90;
182; 238.

Jumblier, The, 196.

Keats, John, On first looking into
Chapman's Homer, 45.
Key, defined, 236; effect of thought
and emotion on, 237; 238-41;
effect of temperament and con-
stitution on, 237; influence of size
of room on, 238.

King Henry the Eighth, 20; 72; 139-
41.

King Henry the Fifth, 38; 72–73; 239.
King Henry the Fourth, 61; 72; 257–

59.

King Richard the Second, 39; 69; 70;
220-21.

King Richard the Third, 150-51.
King Robert of Sicily, 84.
Kipling, Rudyard, Recessional, 188–

89.

Knowles, James Sheridan, William
Tell, 257.

Charles,
Roast Pig, 68.

Dissertation on

Landor, Walter Savage, Finis, 91.
Lanier, Sidney, The Marshes of
Glynn, 267-69.

Lantern-Bearers, The, 48–50.
Last Fight of the Revenge, The, 243.
Laus Deo, 136–37.)-
Leadership of Educated Men, The,
176-77.

Lear, Edward, The Jumblies, 195–96.
Left Out on Lone Star Mountain, 19.
Legend Beautiful, The, 275-78.
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The, 23-
29; 116-23.

Liberal Education, A, 45-46.
Life (Sill), 246–48.

Life, Webster's definition of, 253.
Life of Samuel Johnson, 38.
Lincoln, Abraham, Second Inaugural

Address, 56; reference to his Ad-
dress at Gettysburg, 106.
Lincoln as a Lawyer and Orator, 67.
Lines, length of, should be observed
in poetry, 169-70; "run on 169.
Literary History of America, A, lines
from introduction to, 253.
Literature, of power and of knowl-

edge, 4; power of, realized through
oral reading, 4; defined, 105; sym-
pathetic rendering of, improves
voice, 205; 213.

Long, John D., Memorial Day Ad-
dress, 40.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Paul
Revere's Ride, 36; King Robert of
Sicily, 84; Evangeline, 89; 272–73;
The Building of the Ship, 179–80;
Daybreak, 196; The Rainy Day,
205-06; A Psalm of Life, 245; The
Legend Beautiful, 275–78.
Lost Cause, The, 190.
Lost Days, 219.

Lotos-Eaters, The, 266-67.
Loudness, not evidence of power,
125-26.

Lowell, James Russell, The Street,

153; Stanzas on Freedom, 183.
Lubbock, Sir John, The Pleasures of
Life, 91.

Macbeth, 66; 91; 137-38;
212-13; 228–30; 245.
Man Without a Country, The,
Manfred, 185.
Mankind, 179.

73-82.

Manner, incidental to matter, 8.
Marmion, 155-56; 175.
Marmontel, Jean F., quoted, 105.
Marshes of Glynn, The, 267-69.
Melody, in relation to meaning, 51;
influence of emotion on vocal, 236-
37; faults in, 248.
Memorial Day Address, 40.
Men Told Me, Lord, 271–72.
Merchant of Venice, The, 85; 185-
86; 205-06; 211-12; 261-62.
Metre, logical emphasis in relation
to, 164-69; effect of, on pronunci-
ation, 166-67; assistance of, in
rendering meaning, 167-69; and
rhythm, 173.

Midsummer Night's Dream, A, 131.
Miller, Joaquin, Mankind, 179;
Columbus, 217-18.

Milton, John, Hymn on the Morning
of Christ's Nativity, 39; Paradise
Lost, 62; 69; 90.
Mootony, how to overcome fault
of, 61.

Moore, Thomas, Lalla Rookh, 39.
Morley, John, On the Study of Liter-
ature, 37.

Mountains of California, The, 44-
45.

Muir, John, The Mountains of Cali-
fornia, 44-45; Our National Parks,

142-44.

Music, elements of, in poetry, 237.
Mystery of Life, The, 214.

Nature, 42.

New South, The, 65; 162.
Newman, John Henry, Downfall
and Refuge of Ancient Civilization,

65.

Night (sonnet), 263-64.

Ode (O'Shaughnessy), 261.

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wel-
lington, 130.

Ode on the Intimations of Immortality,
173.

On a Piece of Chalk, 146-47.
On Affairs in America, 64; 91.
On first looking into Chapman's
Homer, 45.

On the Eve of Bunker Hill, 189-90.
On the Study of Literature, 37.
One-Hoss Shay, The, 180-81.
Opportunity, 135.

Oral composition, value and limita-
tions of, 1-3.

Oral reading, place of, in education,
1; value of training in, 4-5; prob-
lems involved in, 6-8; principles
of, derived from conversation, 9-
10; what it involves, 15; meaning
perverted by thoughtless, 15; at
sight, 16-17; purpose of, 16;
'sing-song," 16; compared with
conversation, 22; rate of utterance
in, 130.

66

Orations, declamatory style in de-
livery of, 114.

O'Shaughnessy, Ode, 261.
Our National Parks, 142–44.
Ozymandias, 183.

Paradise Lost, 62; 69; 90.
Passing of Arthur, The, 154–55.
Paul Revere's Ride, 36.

Pause, for preparation, 16–17; and

word groups, 30; length of, 30-31;
as a means of emphasis, 84.
Peabody, Francis Greenwood, The
Rhythm of Life, 131.

Peabody, Josephine Preston, The
House and the Road, 91.
Peter, 84.

Peveril of the Peak, 70.

Phrases, relation of; how shown, 55.
Pickwick Papers, The, 40-41.
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The, 196-
202.

Pilgrim's Progress, The, 177–79.
Pippa Passes, 193-94.

Pitch intervals, effect of emotion on,
286; influence of thought and feel-
ing on, 241-44; in musical verse,
242-43.

Pitch variation, cause of, 51; prob-

lems in, 61-82; note on, 221-22.
Pleasures of Life, The, 91.

219-20.

Poetry, as a source of power, 113-
14; Wordsworth's definition of,
113; voice training in, 114–15;
relation of, to eloquence, 113-14;
rhythm in reading, 164; elements
of music in, 237.
Pollard, Edward Albert, The Lost
Cause, 190.

Porter, Horace, The Soldier's Creed,
214-15.

Preparation, meaning of, 317.
Pretense, emotional, 107.
Princess, The (song from), 244.
Principles, knowledge of, essential in
study of expression, 10-11;318-19.
Prisoner of Chillon, The, 187.
Problems, notes on, 317.
Pronunciation, importance of cor-
rect, 287; standard of, 309-10;
suggestions for improving, 309–
10; general exercises in, 310-11;
note on, 329.

Prose, rhythm of, depends on under-
standing of speaker, 162-63.
Proverbs, 62.

Psalm xxiv, 141.
Psalm of Life, A, 245.

Publicpeaking, value and limita-
tions of, in class work, 2-3.
Punctuation, and grouping, 34-35;
in relation to inflection, 55.

Quality, definition of vocal, 203; what
determines vocal, 203; control of
vocal, 204-05; of voice improved
by rendering literature, 205; kinds
of vocal, 206–07; relation of usual
tone to "orotund," 208; abnor-
mal, 211-12; faults in vocal, 213;
problems in vocal, 214–35; note
on vocal, 326–27. ↑
Queen of the Air, The, 177.

Rabbi Ben Ezra, 180.

Rainbow, The, 183.
Rainy Day, The, 206.

Raising the Flag over Fort Sumter,

70.

Raleigh, Walter, The Last Fight of
the Revenge, 243.

Range, exercises for increasing, 300.
Rate. See Time.

Read, Thomas Buchanan, Drifting,
269-71; The Rising, 302–04.
Reading. See Oral Reading.
Recessional, 188–89.
Recitations, program of, 330-42.
Religio Medici, The, 260.
Reply to Hayne, 126–27.
Repression, sometimes desirable,
107.
Resonance, quality of voice deter-
mined by, 203–04; in "orotund"
tone, 208; what determines, 297-
98; exercises for securing, 298-
99.

Rhythm, in speech, 161; function of,
161; in prose, 162-63; conforms
to sense emphasis in prose, 163;
of poetry, 163; to be observed in
reading poetry, 164; in relation to
time, 172; in relation to metre,
173; problems in, 175-202; note
on, 325-26.

Rhythm of Life, The, 131.

Riley, James Whitcomb, Dialect in
Literature, 40; The South Wind and
the Sun, 174.
Rising, The, 302-04.
Rivals, The, 230-35.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, Lost Days,

219.

Rousseau, 94–95.

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 89.
Rules, ineffective in expression, 10.
Ruskin, John, Work, 90; The Queen
of the Air, 177; The Mystery of
Life, 214.

Sartor Resartus, 42–43.
Saul, 210-11.

Schurz, Carl, The Venezuelan Ques-
tion, 71.

Scollard, Clinton, On the Eve of
Bunker Hill, 189–90.

Scott, Walter, Hunting Song, 36;
quotation from, 37; Peveril of the
Peak, 70; Marmion, 155–56; 175;
The Lady of the Lake, 164; Breathes
there the man, 182.
Seasons, The, 184.