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PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION

from Van Bibber and Others; American Publishers' Corporation,

Scene from The Little Minister""; The Century Company,

"The Two Runaways" and "The Trial of Ben Thomas," from
Two Runaways and Other Stories; The Bowen-Merrill Company,
"The South Wind and the Sun," and "Knee-Deep in June," from
Afterwhiles, and H. S. Edwards' "Mammy's Li'l' Boy."

EVANSTON, ILL., June, 1898.

R. McL. C.

CONTENTS

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

HOW CAN I BECOME A DISTINCT SPEAKER

HOW CAN I BECOME A NATURAL SPEAKER

EXERCISES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOCAL PURITY

EXERCISES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOCAL ENERGY

THE ELEVATED CONVERSATIONAL VOICE

PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON EMPHASIS, INFLECTION

AND CADENCE

EXPRESSION

NARRATIVE, DESCRIPTIVE, AND DIDACTIC STYLES

NARRATIVE, DESCRIPTIVE, AND DIDACTIC SELECTIONS

Robert J. Burdette

Bret Harte

D. R. Locke 44

William Shakespeare 101

Francis Bacon 102

Charles Dickens 103

William Makepeace Thackeray 104

Charles Dickens 108

Charles Dickens III

Charles Dickens 113

DICK SWIVELLER AND THE MARCHION ESS

TULKINGHORN AND MADEMOISELLE HORTENSE

PASSAGE OF THE REFORM BILL

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J. T. Trowbridge 116

Charles Dickens 117

Charles Dickens 123

Lord Macaulay 126