SCHOOL ELOCUTION:

OR THE

YOUNG ACADEMICAL ORATOR.

IN FOUR PARTS.

PART I.-PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE FORMATION
AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE VOICE, AND THE ACQUIREMENT
OF A DISTINCT, FORCIBLE, AND JUST ARTICULATION.

PART II. THE VOCAL MODULATION OF SPEECH, OR

RULES FOR RECITING MELODIOUSLY AND WITH ACCURACY OF
DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ENGLISH RHETORICAL

INFLECTION,

COMPOSITION.

PART III.-HINTS FOR THE PROPER EXPRESSION
OF THE PASSIONS, WITH ELEMENTS OF GESTURE, ILLUS-

TRATED BY EXERCISES AND EXAMPLES.

AND

PART IV.-A SELECTION FROM THE BEST WRITERS
OF SOME OF THE MOST ADMIRED SPEECHES, PASSAGES, &c.

BY WILLIAM HERBERT.

London:

LETTS, SON & STEER, 8, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., Stationers' Court, and C. H. Law, 131, Fleet Street.

1853.

260.£.49.

LETTS, SON, & STEER,

PRINTERS,

8, Royal Exchange, and 3, Old Swan Lane, London Bridge,

London.

SCHOOL ELOCUTION :

OR, THE

YOUNG ACADEMICAL ORATOR.