A' That and A' That, For, 274–75.
Abou Ben Adhem, 41-42.
Addison, Joseph, Hymn, 138-39.
Address at His Brother's Funeral
(Ingersoll), 188.
Address on Abraham Lincoln, 39.
Affectation, cause of, in elocution,
7; ineffectiveness of, 107-08.
Alexander, Mrs. C. F., The Burial of
Moses, 264-66.
American Flag, The, 135.
Analysis, illustrations of, for clear-
ness, 19-20; importance of, 20-21.
Antithesis, how expressed, 59.
Antony and Cleopatra, 68.
Arnold, Edwin, The Swallows, 194.
Arnold, George, The Jolly Old Peda-
gogue, 225-26.
Arnold, Matthew, Sweetness and
Light, 189.
Assignments, program of, 330-42.
As You Like It, 94; 224-25.
At the End of the Day, 159-60.
Attention, necessity of, in reading,
21; and force, 106.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The,
62; 95-96; 207-08; 283-84.
Baedeker, Switzerland, 252; 254.
Bailey, Philip James, Festus, 31.
Ballad of the Revenge, The, 243.
Bards of the Bible, 216-17.
Becket, 71.
Beecher, Henry Ward, Address on
Abraham Lincoln, 39; Raising the
Flag Over Fort Sumter, 70.
Benson, Arthur C., From a College
Window, 240.
Bible, I Corinthians, 91; Ecclesiastes,
153-54; Genesis, 133; II Peter,
84; Proverbs, 62; Psalms, 141.
Blaine, James G., Funeral Oration
on Garfield, 236.
Boswell, James, Life of Samuel
Johnson, 38.
Breath, management of, 291-92;
exercises for control of, 292–94.
Breathes there the man, 182.
Breathing, and grouping, 33-34.
Bridges, Robert, Washington, 45.
Browne, Thomas, Religio Medici,
260.
Browning, Robert, How They
Brought the Good News from Ghent
to Aix, 131; Cavalier Tunes, 149;
Rabbi Ben Ezra, 180; Pippa
Passes, 193-94; The Pied Piper
of Hamelin, 196-202; Saul, 210-
11.
Bryant, William Cullen, Thanatop-
sis, 38; The Gladness of Nature, 128.
Building of the Ship, The, 179–80.
Bunyan, John, Pilgrim's Progress,
The, 177-79.
Burial of Moses, The, 264-66.
Burial of Sir John Moore, The, 186-
87.
Burns, Robert, For A' That and A'
Character, revealed in speech, 7-8; | Daybreak, 196.
Charge of the Heavy Brigade, The,
Chatham, Earl of, Speech on Ameri-
can Affairs, 64; 91.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 19; 68;
70; 89; 93.
Chillon, Sonnet on, 252-53.
Choate, Joseph H., Lincoln as a
Lawyer and Orator, 67.
Christmas Carol, A, 84; 86; 157-59;
221-23; 255-57.
Clauses, relation of, how shown, 55.
Clearness in speech, result of think-
ing, 15; 17.
Clough, Arthur Hugh, Columbus,
194.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Hymn to
Mont Blanc, 209; 254–55.
Columbus (Clough), 194.
Columbus (Miller), 217-18.
Coming of Arthur, The (song from),
Community of Humorists, A, 128.
Completeness of thought, how shown,
52; 55.
Conduct, 184.
Consonants, effect of, on melody of
speech, 52; how formed, 308; clear
enunciation of, 308; exercises in
enunciation of, 309.
Constitution and the Union, The, 65-
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
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,
89-101; metrical accent in relation | Grouping, the basis of, 30; and
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.
Feeling, qualities of voice in strong
and elevated, 208-09; in somber,
209-10; in genial, 210-11.
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; 311.
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.
of Howitt, William, The Wind in a
Frolic, 148-49.
Fitzgerald, Edward, Rubáiyát
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, 38-39.
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.
Hunt, Leigh, Abou Ben Adhem, 41-
42.
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-
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
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