THE PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION, WITH EXERCISES AND NOTATIONS FOR PRONUNCIATION, INTONATION, EMPHASIS, GESTURE BY ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL, F. E. I. S. &c., Fourth Edition.—Revised and Enlarged. CANADIAN PUBLISHER: THOMAS HENDERSON, BRANTFORD, Ont. SALEM, MASS: JAMES P. BURBANK. 1878. PREFACE. The Third Edition of the "ELOCUTIONARY MANUAL" having been for some time out of print, and the work being still in steady demand, the Author has been induced to prepare a New Edition, with the improvements suggested by his long experience. Such a duty he cannot hope to be again called on to undertake; and, as his "PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION"-first published in 1849 have had a manifest influence on subsequent elocutionary literature, he desires to extend and perpetuate that influence, by a final revision of the Theories and Exercises which were the fruit of original study and observation, thirty years ago. TUTELO HEIGhts, Brantford, July 1st, 1878. EXTRACTS FROM FORMER PREFACES. SECOND EDITION. Two years ago, the Author published his " New Elucidation of the Principles of Speech and Elocution," - -a Work which has been so favourably received among Critics, and so rapidly disposed of. that he has been induced to prepare an ELOCUTIONARY MANUAL adapted for use in Classes, as well as for Private Students. This Volume may be considered as a Second Edition (but entirely re-written) of the Elocutionary Sections of the larger work. The Fundamental Theories, and the Details of Articulation and Defective Speech are condensed; the Principles of Orthoepy, Vocalization, and the Art of Reading, more copiously illustrated; and a full Practical Treatment of the subject of GESTURE has been added; besides an extensive Collection of Poetical and Dramatic Quotations, marked for Exercise in Expressive Reading. All the Extracts are alphabetically collected in one general Index in the Table of Contents, so as to form a DICTIONARY OF EMOTIVE QUOTATIONS: and the Table of Contents, generally, is arranged as a minute Reference-Index to the subjects treated of in the volume. In the following Manual the ordinary meagreness of Elocutionary books in principles, and their dull abundance in rules, has been avoided. PRINCIPLES have been chiefly dealt with, and the utmost simplicity has been aimed at, in their statement and illustration. The Author has to acknowledge his obligations to his Father, Alex. Bell, Esq., Professor of Eloution, London; and to his Brother, D. C. Bell, Esq., Professor of Elocution, Dublin, for their critical perusal of this Work, in its progress through the Press. EDINBURGH, 1852. THIRD EDItion. IN the present Edition the whole of the Notations have been revised, and many new paragraphs have been added in each Division of the Work. The Introduction, and the Section on EMPHASIS are entirely new; and a large number of additional Exercises and Illustrations have been given under the various Heads of Oral Gymnastics, Inflexion, Expressive Exercises, and Gesture. The Work will now, it is hoped, be found still more worthy of the flattering encomiums it has received from the Press and the Professional Public. EDINBURGH, 1859. |