128. Incomprehensibility of God.........Miss Elizabeth Townsend, 367 129. Woman: her Power and her Progress.......L. Aimé Martin, 369 VI.-The Heart where the Treasure is....... Bernard Barton, 379 VII.-Lines from a Lady Born Blind. 156. Beauty, the Mark God sets upon Virtue.... 157. Duties of American Citizens... 159. Speak Gently to the Erring. 160. Character of Napoleon..... SANDERS' YOUNG LADIES' READER. PART FIRST. ELOCUTION. ELOCUTION is the art of delivering written or extemporaneous composition with force, propriety, and ease. It deals, therefore, with words, not only as individuals, but as members of a sentence, and parts of a connected discourse: including every thing necessary to the just expression of the sense. Accordingly, it demands, in a special manner, attention to the following particulars; viz., ARTICULATION, ACCENT, EMPHASIS, INFLECTION, MODULATION, and PAUSES. SECTION I. ARTICULATION. ARTICULATION is the art of uttering distinctly and justly the letters and syllables constituting a word. It deals, therefore, with the elements of words, just as elocution deals with the elements of sentences: the one securing the true enunciation of each letter, or combination of letters, the other giving to each word, or combination of words, such a delivery as best expresses the meaning of the author. It is the basis of all QUESTIONS.-What is Elocution? To what subjects does it require particular attention? What is Articulation? good reading, and should be carefully practiced by the learner. The following Directions and Examples are given as guides: I.-Produce, according to the following Table, all the Ele mentary Sounds of the Language: ELEMENTARY SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS. * Soft G is equivalent to J; Soft C to S, and hard C and Q to K. X is equivalent to K and S, as in box, or to G and Z, as in exalt. | WH is pronounced as if the H preceded W, otherwise it would be pronounced W-hen. R should be slightly trilled before a vowel, For further instructions, see Sanders and Merrill's Elementary and Elocutionary Chart. QUESTIONS.-How many Elementary Sounds are there? How many vowel sounds? What are they? Utter the consonant sounds. SUBSTITUTES FOR THE VOWEL ELEMENTS.. 1st. For Long 'A, we have ai, as in sail; au in gauge; ay in lay; ea in grext; ei in deign; ey in they. 2d. For Flat A, au in daunt; ua in guard; ea in heart. 3d. For Broad 3A, au in pause; aw in law; eo in George; oa in groat; o in horn; ou in sought. 4th. For Short ‘A, ai in plaid; ua in guaranty. 5th. For Long 1E, ea in weak; ei in seize; ie in brief; eo in people; i in pique; ey in key. 6th. For Short E, a in any; ai in said; ay in says; ea in dead; eɩ in heifer; eo in leopard; ie in friend; ue in guess; uin bury. 7th. For Long 'I, ai in aisle; ei in sleight; ey in eye; ie in die; ui in guide; uy in buy; y in try. 8th. For Short I, e in English; ee in been; ie in sieve; o in women; u in busy; ui in build; y in symbol. 9th. For Long 1O, au in hautboy; eau in beau; eo in yeoman; ew in sew; oa in boat; oe in hoe; ou in soul; ow in flow. 10th. For Long Slender 20, oe in shoe; ou in soup. 11th. For Short 3O, a in was; ou in hough; ow in knowledge. 12th. For Long 1U, eau in beauty; eu in feud; ew in dew; us in cue; ou in your; ui in fruit. 13th. For Short 2U, e in her ; i in sir; oe in does; o in love. 14th. For Short Slender 3U, o in wolf; ou in would. 15th. For OI, oy in joy. 16th. For OU, ow in now. SUBSTITUTES FOR THE CONSONANT ELEMENTS. For F, we have gh, as in laugh; ph in sphere. For J, g in gem, gin, gyre. For K, c in can; ch in chord; gh in hough; q in quit. For S, c in cent, cion, cygnet. For T, d in faced: phth in phthisic. For V, fin of; ph in Stephen. For Y, i in onion, valiant. For 'Z, c in suffice; s in is; x in Xerxes. For 2Z, 8 in treasure; z in azure. How QUESTIONS.-How many substitutes has long A How many has flat A, and what are they? How many has broad A, &c. many substitutes has each of the consonants, and what are they? |