CONTENTS. PAGE Gesture. ........................................ Postures of the Body ............................ Demonstrating on the Black-board. ....... Manner of holding the Book ....................... Notation of Gesture............................ Positions of the Feet and Lower Limbs........ Positions, Motions, and Elevations of the Arms... Postures and motions of the Hands....... The head, the Eyes, the Shoulders, and the Body ....... The Stroke and Time of Gesture..................... The Classification of Gesture........ The Preparation, Transition, and Accompaniment of The Frequency, Moderation, and Intermission of Gesture. 123 The Qualities of Gesture, and the Gesture suited to different modes of Public Speaking.......... Complex Significant Gestures........ Synoptical Arrangement of the Notation Letters....... EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION, PITCH, FORCE, Exercises in Articulation, Pitch, Force, Time, and Table of the Elements of the English Language......... 183 Method of Beating Time with the Dumb-Bells.. Method of Teaching Declamation ....... Speech of Satan to his Legions, with Gestures.......... 201 EXERCISES IN READING AND DECLAMATION. Abou Ben Adhem...... ......... Leigh Hunt. 459 ........ Anonymous. 374 ............ Wirt. 369 ...... Dryden. 403 ... Edgar A. Poe. 440 .. Longfellow. 461 Apostrophe to the Queen of France... ........ Burke. 225 Beautiful Snow.... ... Watson. 467 ..R. W. Procter. 416 . Mrs. Hemans. 399 .......... Mrs. Norton. 508 ......... Hood. 502 ........ Mrs. Hemans. 354 Charge of the Light Brigade.......... Alfred Tennyson. 419 Childe Harold's Address to the Ocean. .......... Byron. 222 Declaration of Independence.................. Jefferson. 322 Douglas's Account of Himself................. ...Home. 320 Dying Christian to his Soul............ Alexander Pope. 462 Edward and Warwick........ ..... From the French 337 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.........Gray. 316 Evelyn Hope........................ Robert Browning. 457 Extract from a supposed Speech of John Adams, in support of American Independence. ... ... ... Webster. 379 Gambler's Wife.... ... Coates. 417 ........ Akenside. 337 ..... Derzhavin. 283 Hamlet's Soliloquy......... ...... Shakspeare. 265 Happy Freedom of the Man whom Grace makes Free. Floratius.... Macaulay. 436 Industry necessary to the Attainment of Eloquence. Ware. 339 ........De Witt Clinton. 380 ........ Tennyson. 532 ......... Ilebster. 499 Lines supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary abode on the Island of "Little Jim."..... ........ Anon. 434 Lochinvar........ ....... Scott. 352 Marco Bozzaris........ .... Halleck. 239 Maud Muller....... .....J. G. Whittier, 512 ........ Coleridge. 562 Motives to the Practice of Gentleness............ Blair. 345 Night Thoughts.............................. Young. 341 Nothing to Wear......................... Ode on the Passions.. ......... Collins. 276 Oh, why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud.... Knor. 500 Ossian's Address to the Sun.... .........Ossian. 219 Othello's Apology........................ Shakspeare. 425 Parrhasius and Captive... ........ Willis. 427 Paul's Defence Before King Agrippa......... Testament. 397 Rienzi's Address....... ........M. R. Mitford 358 .......... Kotzebue. 311 Schemes of Life often Illusory............. Dr. Johnson. 375 Scott and the Veteran.................. Bayard Taylor. 505 Shamus O'Brien the Bold Boy of Glingall. Å Tale of '98. Sheridan's Ride...... .........T. Buchanan Read. 522 ...................... Tillotson. 359 ......R. B. Sheridan. 221 Speech of Satan to his Legions .. in to nis Legions ................. Milton. 217 Speech of Sergeant Buzfuz....... ........ Dickens. 544 Speech of Satan, with Gestures... ....... Milton. 201 Tell's Address to the Mountains...............Knowles. 219 The American Flag ................ The Angels of Buena Vista. ............J. G. Whittier. 465 The Bells........ ....... Edgar A. Poe. 490 Geo. H. Boker. 542 Jonn Moore................... Wolfe. 297 The Chameleon.............................. Merrick. 291 The Cumberland........ ..H. W. Longfellow. 483 The Destruction of Senacherib.... ........... Byron. 351 ........ Schiller. 557 The Drowned Mariner..................... Mrs. Smith. 555 ...... Lord Byron. 54, The Exile of Erin........................... Campbell. 296 The Frenchman and the Rats.... ........ Anon. 393 'The Ghost ..................................... Anon. 526 The Grave of Franklin........... Miss C. H. Waterman. 321 The Heavens and the Earth show the Glory and Wisdom of their Creator .......................... Goldsmith. 298 The Herinit.......: .......... Beattie. 236 Jean Ingelow. 450 |