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These little books are a happy combination of AUTOGRAPH ALBUM AND GIFT-BOOK. N. B. These books are charming and appropriate gifts for birthdays. We recommend them to teachers who wish to preserve in a permanent and handsome form the autographs of their pupils. For sale by all Booksellers. Sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers, HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 4 PARK STREET, BOSTON, Mass. NEW EDITION. ORTHOPHONY; OR, THE CULTIVATION OF THE VOICE IN ELOCUTION. A Manual of Elementary Exercises adapted to Dr. Rush's Philosophy of the Human Voice, by WILLIAM RUSSELL. Seventy-fifth Edition, revised and enlarged, by FRANCIS T. RUSSELL, formerly Professor of Oratory at Trinity and Hobart Colleges. 12mo, with illustrations, $1.00, net. Prof. Russell has rewritten, revised, enlarged, and brought down to date this book on Vocal Culture, which for many years has been regarded as the most acceptable text-book on the subject. The object of the book is to furnish the ground-work of prac tical elocution, and whatever explanations are needed for the training of the vocal organs and the cultivation of the voice; its instructions are scientific and clear, and the literary selections chosen for exercises are from the best authors. This is one of the best manuals of elementary exercises for the training of the voice in elocution ever published in this country. - New England Journal of Education. It recognizes the all-important fact that true elocutionary culture requires elementary training of the respiratory organs. The Voice (Albany). For beginners and advanced students, with or without teachers, it is the most philosophical and helpful work that can be ob tained. - New Britain Herald. I have always considered it the very best thing on the subject, and have invariably recommended it to all who wished a text-book on this subject. - PROF. PEABODY, College of New Jersey. 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A new edition revised to date, with full index and portraits of twelve of the most prominent authors. By CHARLES F. RICHARDSON. 30 cents, net. This comprehensive sketch of our literature and authors is well adapted for use in all schools in which American literature is studied, and is especially commended to the notice of intelligent teachers. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 4 PARK STREET, BOSTON, MASS. [A list of the first thirty-nine numbers is given on the next page.] 40. Hawthorne's Tales of the White Hills, and Sketches. 41. Whittier's Tent on the Beach. 42. Emerson's Fortune of the Republic, and Other American Essays. 43. Ulysses among the Phæacians. From W. C. BRYANT'S Translation of Homer's Odyssey. 44. Edgeworth's Waste Not, Want Not, and Barring Out. 45. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. 46. Old Testament Stories in Scripture Language. From the Dispersion at Babel to the Conquest of Canaan. 47, 48. Fables and Folk Stories. (Second Reader Grade.) Phrased by HORACE E. SCUDDER. 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