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
INFLECTION, DIFFERENT SPECIES OF ENGLISH RHETORICAL
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. f. 49.

LETTS, Son, & STEER,

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

London.

SCHOOL ELOCUTION:

OR, THE

YOUNG ACADEMICAL ORATOR.