2. "What's hallowed ground? 'tis that gives birth To sacred thoughts in souls of worth. 3. Peace, Independence, Truth! go forth And your high priesthood shall make earth "One great clime, Whose vigorous offspring by dividing ocean Full of the magic of exploded science,- 1. 'Force of Emotion. "On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! 2. "Strike till the last armed foe expires, Shouting and Calling. 1st Example. "Liberty! freedom! Tyranny is dead: Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets!" 2. "Rejoice, you men of Angiers, ring your bells! King John, your king and England's, doth approach: Open your gates, and give the victors way!""" EXERCISES ON PITCH. Low Notes. "Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, Middle Notes. "My thoughts, I must confess, are turned on peace; 'Tis time to sheath the sword and spare mankind." "We took up arms, not to revenge ourselves, But free the Commonwealth. When this end fails, And bids us not delight in Roman blood Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent." High Notes. "But thou, O Hope! with eyes so fair,- And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, A soft responsive voice was heard at every close; And Hope enchanted smil'd, and wav'd her golden hair." EXERCISES ON TIME. Slowest Rate. "Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, Slow. "Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." "For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, "If the relation of sleep to night, and, in some instances, its converse, be real, we cannot reflect without amazement, upon the extent to which it carries us. Day and night are things close to us: the change applies immediately to our sensations; of all the phenomena of nature, it is the most obvious, and the most familiar to our experience: but, in its cause, it belongs to the great motions which are passing in the heavens. Whilst the earth glides around her axle, she ministers to the alternate necessities of the animals dwelling upon her surface, at the same time that she obeys the influence of those attractions which regulate the order of many thousand worlds. The relation, therefore, of sleep to night, is the relation of the inhabitants of the earth to the rotation of their globe: probably it is more; it is a relation to the system of which that globe is a part; and still farther, to the congregation of systems, of which theirs is only one. If this account be true, it connects the meanest individual with the universe itself: a chicken, roosting upon its perch, with the spheres revolving in the firmament." Lively. "In thy right hand lead with thee Quick. "Now the storm begins to lower; "Ere the ruddy sun be set, Hauberk crash, and helmet ring. Sisters, hence with spurs of speed! The preceding exercises will be found serviceable in training the organs and forming the voice to the appropriate style of public reading and speaking. They are not meant, however, to supersede a regular course of culture, on the plan prescribed in Dr. Rush's Philosophy of the Voice,-an advantage, now accessible to students in Boston and Cambridge, at the Vocal and Gymnastic Institute of Mr. J. E. Murdock. Introductory Observations. The use of inflection is to give significance to speech, and constitutes that part of modulation which is addressed to the understanding. It ranks next to a distinct articulation, as the means of rendering consecutive oral expression intelligible. It has, too, a certain effect of local melody,-so to term it,--in the successive clauses of a sentence, without which aid we could not discriminate between the commencement and the completion of a thought addressed to the ear. Propriety of tone, even in the plainest forms of prose reading, is wholly dependent on the right use of inflections; and the absence, or the wrong application, of these modifications of voice, indicates either a want of ear, or of right understanding as to the sense of what is read. In the reading of verse, appropriate inflections are the only means of avoiding the two great evils of monotony and chant. Reading, without inflections, becomes lifeless, as may be observed in what is usually called a 'schoolboy tone.' This fault not only divests language of its meaning, but substitutes a ludicrous monotony for the natural, animated, and varied expression of the voice, in actual communication. The hearer unavoidably loses all interest in what is monotonously read; for it makes no appeal either to his feelings or to his understanding. But it is not monotony, or the mere absence of inflection, or a formal mannerism, that is the only ground of complaint, as regards the too common style of reading. The ear undisciplined by proper early training, acquires habits of false intonation, and for the appropriate slides of the voice, substitutes, often, such |