MANUAL OF ELOCUTION: EMBRACING VOICE AND GESTURE. DESIGNED FOR Schools, Academies and Colleges, AS WELL AS FOR PRIVATE LEARNERS. BY MERRITT CALDWELL, A. M., PROFESSOR OF METAPHYSICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY AND TEACHER OF PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY SORIN & BALL. NEW YORK:-HUNTINGTON & SAVAGE. BOSTON-GOULD, KENDALL & LINCOLN. AND FOR SALE BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. 9280.845.210 1869. July ilson Mary, Augustus &. & Heram Willson If New Albany Ind, of 29 ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON PRINTED BY T. K. & P. G. COLLINS, PHILADELPHIA. TO THOSE, who during the last sixteen years have, from time to time, been under my tuition,-many of whom are now occupying posts of honor and usefulness, in the Church, in the State, and in the various departments of Instruction,-this Manual is most respectfully dedicated, by PREFACE. THE preparation of this Manual would not have been undertaken, but for the obvious want, at the present time, of a suitable text-book in Elocution, for the use of classes in our colleges, academies, and schools. And if undertaken, the effort would have proved comparatively futile, but for the existence of such works as " The Philosophy of the human Voice," by JAMES RUSH, M. D., of Philadelphia, from the valuable materials of which I have been permitted to draw at pleasure, and the "Chironomia," of AUSTIN, which for nearly forty years has been the common source from which have been derived the principles of Gesture. I take pleasure in acknowledging my obligations to these eminently philosophical works; and this acknowledgment I wish to make this preface in terms so general, as not again to need to recur to the subject. Having used these books for several years as works of almost daily reference, nothing but the most studied affectation could prevent me from employing the materials which they so richly furnish for the use of all future learners in the principles of the voice and of gesture. But aside from this general use of these works, I have referred directly to them, in the preparation. of almost every chapter and section of this Manual; nor could I otherwise have done justice to the ordinary learne: since these books, both by their scarcity and their price, are placed beyond his reach. |