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. |