INTRODUCTORY TREATISE ON ELOCUTION; WITH PRINCIPLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS ARRANGED FOR BY PROF. MARK BAILEY, INSTRUCTOR OF ELOCUTION IN YALE COLLEGE. PUBLISHED BY TAINTOR BROTHERS, MERRILL, & CO., NEW YORK. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by MARK BAILEY, In the Clerk's Office of the District of Connecticut. Copyright, 1880, by MARK BAILEY. ANDOVER THEUL, SEMIMARY FEB 291908 -LIBRARY. 59.766 AN INTRODUCTORY TREATISE ON ELOCUTION; WITH PRINCIPLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, ARRANGED FOR TEACHING AND PRACTICE. BY PROF. MARK BAILEY, INSTRUCTOR OF ELOCUTION IN YALE COLLEGE. PREFACE TO THE INTRODUCTION. GOOD READING includes a mastery of the elements of language and elocution. Articulation and pronunciation must be not only distinct and accurate, but expressive. This last excellence cannot be attained by merely enunciating meaningless sounds and syllables. Too many such mechanical exercises kill the instinctive use and recognition of expressive tones which the child brings to school, and in the end completely divorce his elocution from the spirit and sense to which it should be inseparably wedded, and which alone can inspire natural expression. The child feels and thinks before he talks. Nature, in her teaching, begins with the idea, and in her repeated efforts to express the idea more perfectly, perfects Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by MARK BAILEY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. Copyright, 1880, by MARK BAILEY. |