DEATH OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON.-Dr. Nott.. 311 DEATH OF LITTLE JIM, THE.. 79 DUTY OF LITERARY MEN TO THEIR COUNTRY.-Grimke... 306 ..... HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET.-Oliver Wendell Holmes.. 371 I'M WITH YOU ONCE AGAIN.-G. P. Morris... 206 INDUSTRY AND ELOQUENCE.- Wirt.. 41 IN MEMORIAM-A. LINCOLN.—Mrs. Emily J. Bugbee...... 202 MACBETH. (Extract from dagger scene.)-Shakespeare. 109 MACBETH. SCENE II. ACT II.-Shakespeare... 93 MARCO BOZZARIS.-Fitz Greene Halleck.... 209 MERCHANT OF VENICE. (Brief extract.)-Shakespeare.......... 110 MR. PICKWICK'S PROPOSAL TO MRS. BARDELL.-Dickens........ 347 NO SECTS IN HEAVEN.-Mrs. E. H. J. Cleaveland.... 366 SCIENCE OF ELOCUTION. INTRODUCTION. ELOCUTION. DEFINITION. ELOCUTION is the expression of thought and feeling by voice and action. It is not, as many erroneously think, an accomplishment valuable only in professional life; but a divine gift, a natural endowment, invaluable in every position and condition of life, and susceptible of the highest cultivation." It is Elocution in the familiar conversations of the family circle as truly as it is in the pulpit; it is Elocution in the social circle as really as it is at the bar, when the lawyer addresses judge and jury; it is Elocution in business life as much. as it is upon the platform or the stage. Wherever we express thought and feeling, there we use or abuse the principles of expression. SCIENCE AND ART. Elocution is both a science and an art. As a science, it investigates, classifies, and applies the elements and principles, of expression; as an art, it gives practical illustration to these elements and principles. As a science, it teaches us to know; as an art, to do. PROVINCE OF THE SCIENCE. The science of Elocution deduces the principles of expression from natural sounds-animate and inanimate. It observes in the joyous songs of birds explosive form, pure tone, high pitch, and rapid movement. It perceives in the low, angry growl of the wild animal the pectoral quality; in the mutter of the bloodthirsty savage the guttural tone; in the moaning of the winds the aspirate; in the roar of the ocean the orotund; in the tranquil murmur of the stream the pure, clear tone. It classifies these principles, adapts them to the comprehension of man, and thus establishes a system true in theory and natural in practice; a system based not on human rules, but on divine laws. It discovers in every vocal utterance six essential elements: FORM, QUALITY, FORCE, STRESS, PITCH, and MOVEMENT; that by no possibility can there be a continuous vocal utterance in which these elements will not exist in some combination; that they are as essential to vocal expression as are the notes to the tune, the parts of speech to the sentence, the processes - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division-to the solution. of problems; that all other properties of expression, as quantity, inflection, emphasis, cadence, grouping, and even distinct articulation, are simply different combinations of these essential elements; that utterance does not depend upon them, but may exist without them, and hence they may be termed simply accidents or accomplishments of expression. Science perceives that the excellence in vocal expression, whether in conversation, reading, speaking, or recitation, depends on the perfect illustration and correct combination of these |