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. Pa. Page. Second and third modes General scheme of articulations Table of English articulations Table for phonetic analysis XVII. ANGLICISMS OF ARTICULATION XVIII. SCOTTICISMS OF ARTICULATION XIX. HIBERNICISMS OF ARTICULATION Monosyllabic combinations 175-178 VI. EXERCISES ON THE INFLEXION OF WORDS VII. RESUMÉ OF PRINCIPLES OF MECHANISM, MELODY AND MEANING OF THE INFLEXIONS (For a List of the Passages, see "General Index of Extracts.") 20-21 |