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The Music of the Female Voice..

Faulty Utterance an Indication of mental and physical Defects. 14

Mrs. Sigourney's Remarks on Reading...

Intellectual and moral Effects of Bad Reading..

Comparative Value of Reading and Music

ORGANS OF VOICE

Neglect of the proper Modes of Organic Action..

Proper Attitude for the Exercise of Reading..

Mode of Respiration required for appropriate Reading.

Appropriate Mode of producing Vocal Sound....

Management of the Breath..

Utterance as modified by the Glottis..

Articulation, as dependent on the minor Organs

"QUALITY OF THE VOICE.

"Pure Tone".

Faults in "Quality

Exercises in Pure Tone.

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Ex.

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

1. The Pine and the Olive

2. The Two Mothers

3. A Mother's Love..

4. Church Bells....

5. My Mary

Mrs. Barbauld. 49

De Custine. 50

Emily Taylor. 52

.N. P. Willis. 53

Cowper. 55

17. The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant

107. Light Conversation with a Heavy Man..

119. Monody on the Death of Grace Darling....Mrs. C. B. Wilson. 295

120. Female Studies....

121. Shocking Ignorance

122. Edgeworthstown..

123. Mysteries of Life...

124. Scene from Miriam.

125. London

126. French Politeness..

127. Pilgrims of the Middle Ages.

128. Autumnal Musings.

129. The Ocean

130. Ode to the Flowers.

131. The Besieged Castle..

132. Same Subject..

133. Ship by Moonlight

134. Beauty

.....

135. The Flower-Stealers.

136. Qualities requisite in a Wife.

137. Love for Humanity

138. A Quaker Meeting.

139. Song for August.

140. Literature and Morals..

141. Birthplace of Burns

142. The Ettrick Shepherd's Mother

143. Ladies' Head-Dresses..

144. Domestic Education.

145. The Water-Lily..

146. Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans..

147. The Dying Midshipman.

148. The Departed

149. "I see Thee still"

150. A Dirge....

151. The Guelphs and Ghibelines.

152. The Mosque of Santa Sophia..

153. Scene from "As You Like It

154. Sabbath Musings.

155. A Connecticut Farm-House.

156. Connecticut...

157. Particular People

158. The Grandam..

159. Cottage Names

160. The Brides of Venice

161. Same Subject

162. Light...

163. To a Little Cloud..

164. Cultivation of Taste

165. December....

166. The Deserted Home..

167. Portia...

Mrs. Barbauld. 296

..Anon. 298

.Mrs. S. C. Hall. 300

Scott. 324

Ibid. 328

Wilson. 331

R. W. Emerson. 334

Blanchard. 336

Dr. Aikin. 339

Mrs. Child. 341

Lamb. 343

H. Martineau. 345

Frisbie. 346

Cunningham. 349

..Anon. 350

.Addison. 352

.Mrs. Gilman. 355

Mrs. Hemans. 358

Miss Landon. 359

.Anon. 362

Mary Ann Brown. 365

Charles Sprague. 366

Moir. 367

Da Ponte. 369

Miss Pardoe. 372

Shakspeare. 375

H. Martineau. 376

Mrs. Sigourney. 378

...Id. 381

.Anon. 382

. Lamb. 385

Miss Mitford. 386

.Rogers. 389

...Ibid. 391

.Anon. 392

.Montgomery. 394

396

Howitt. 398

Tennyson. 401

..Mrs. Jameson. 401

Ex.

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168. The Mother of Washington

169. Female Sentimentalists...

170. The Lover's Echo

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187. The Family Meeting.

188. The Acropolis and the Parthenon..

189. Jephthah's Daughter

190. Sublimity of Wordsworth.

191. Ode on Immortality.

192. Portia's Wooers

193. Frost at Midnight..

194. Character of Hannah More

195. Female Accomplishments.

196. Dr. Johnson.......

197. Washing-Day.

198. Woman, in France.

199. Anna Maria Porter

200. The Women of France and of England.

201. Influence of Poetry on Women..

Frederika Bremer. 425

Montgomery. 429

Anon. 431

Dickens. 433

Mrs. Child. 436

Mrs. Norton. 437

Mrs. Hemans. 438

Fenelon. 441

Saint-Simon. 443

Campbell. 445

•Sprague. 448

Cheever. 449

Willis. 453

Talfourd. 455

Wordsworth. 456

Shakspeare. 461

Coleridge. 464

Roberts. 465

.Hannah More. 467

Madame D'Arblay. 468

Mrs. Barbauld. 471

..Anon. 473

.Anon. 475

.Mirabeau. 477

Mrs. Ellis. 479