form so gracious and urbane. The plain house in which he lived, severely plain because the welfare of the suffering and the slave were preferred to book and picture and every fair device of art; the house to which the north star led the trembling fugitive; the radiant figure passing swiftly to and fro along these streets; the ceaseless charity untold, the strong sustaining heart of private friendship; the sacred domestic affection that must not here be named; the eloquence, which like the song of Orpheus, will fade from living memory as a doubtful tale; the great scene of his life in Faneuil Hall; the mighty struggle and the mighty triumph with which his name is forever blended; the consecration of a life hid with God in sympathy with man- these, all these, will live among your immortal traditions. And not among yours alone. As the years go by, and only the large outlines of lofty American characters and careers remain, the wide Republic will confess the benediction of a life like this, and gladly own that if, with perfect faith and hope assured, America would still stand and bid distant generations "Hail," the inspiration of her national life must be the sublime moral courage, the spotless purity, the unswerving integrity, the all-embracing humanity, the absolutely unselfish devotion of great powers to great public ends, which were the glory of Wendell Phillips. - George William Curtis. ABRUPT AND STARTLING SELECTIONS EXPLOSIVE OROTUND. Under this head come all abrupt and startling emotions, as fear, alarm, terror, hurry and commotion, anger, etc. The chief peculiarity of this form of the Orotund is that the tones, as they issue from the glottis, resemble the successive reports of a pistol. In the case of the Expulsive Orotund, the form of utterance was a short shout. Here it has no prolongation whatsoever, but is a sudden, instantaneous burst of voice. Without this sharp, clear and pistol-like utterance, all pieces of anger and fierce emotion, as well as the fury and intensity of battle scenes, would be lost, and the words charged with fire and passion would fall from the lips of the speaker lifeless and flat. On the other hand, if this explosive utterance were applied to oratory, it would crush out all the dignity of persuasive eloquence, and turn the prudent and manly utterance of the orator into angry denunciation. The only style of oratory in which the voice assumes anything like an explosive form is that of fierce invective. The prevailing pitch of the Explosive Orotund is high, and sometimes very high, and the movement of the voice quick or rapid. SELECTIONS OF BOLD ADDRESS, ANGER, HURRY, COMMOTION, ETC. MARMION AND DOUGLAS The train from out the castle drew, "Though something I might plain," he said, "Of cold respect to stranger guest, Sent hither by your king's behest, While in Tantallon's towers I stayed, But Douglas round him drew his cloak, Burned Marmion's swarthy cheek like fire, On the Earl's cheek the flush of rage Fierce he broke forth,-"And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go? Up drawbridge, grooms,- what, Warder, ho! Lord Marmion turned,- well was his need! The steed along the drawbridge flies, And when Lord Marmion reached his band, And shook his gauntlet at the towers. - Sir Walter Scott. BATTLE OF BEAL' AN DUINE No cymbal clash'd, no clarion rang, There breathed no wind their crests to shake, Their vaward scouts no tidings bring, Can rouse no lurking foe, Nor spy a trace of living thing Save when they stirr'd the roe; The host moves, like a deep-sea-wave; When rise no rocks its pride to brave, High-swelling, dark, and slow. The lake is pass'd, and now they gain, At once there rose so wild a yell For life! for life! their flight they ply- Onward they drive in dreadful race, Before that tide of flight and chase, "Down, down," cried Mar, "your lances down! Like reeds before the tempest's frown, That serried grove of lances brown And closely shouldering side to side, We'll drive them back as tame."- Like wave with crest of sparkling foam, Right onward did Clan-Alpine come. |