Two years ago, the Author published his "New Elucidation of
the Principles of Speech and Elocution," -a Work which has
been so favourably received among Critics, and so rapidly dis-
posed of, that he has been induced to prepare an ELOCUTIONARY
MANUAL adapted for use in Classes, as well as for Private Students.
This Volume may be considered as a Second Edition (but en-
tirely re-written) of the Elocutionary Sections of the larger work.
The Fundamental Theories, and the Details of Articulation and
Defective Speech are condensed; the Principles of Orthoepy,
Vocalization, and the Art of Reading, more copiously illustrated;
and a full Practical Treatment of the subject of GESTURE has
been added; besides an extensive Collection of Poetical and
Dramatic Quotations, marked for Exercise in Expressive Reading.
All the Extracts are alphabetically collected in one general
Index in the Table of Contents, so as to form a DICTIONARY OF
EMOTIVE QUOTATIONS: and the Table of Contents, generally, is
arranged as a minute Reference-Index to the subjects treated of
in the volume.
In the following Manual the ordinary meagreness of Elocution-
ary books in principles, and their dull abundance in rules, has
been avoided. PRINCIPLES have been chiefly dealt with, and the
utmost simplicity has been aimed at, in their statement and il-
lustration.
The Author has to acknowledge his obligations to his Father,
Alex. Bell, Esq., Professor of Eloution, London; and to his
Brother, D. C. Bell, Esq., Professor of Elocution, Dublin, for
their critical perusal of this Work, in its progress through the
IN the present Edition the whole of the Notations have been
revised, and many new paragraphs have been added in each
Division of the Work. The Introduction, and the Section on
EMPHASIS are entirely new; and a large number of additional
Exercises and Illustrations have been given under the various
Heads of Oral Gymnastics, Inflexion, Expressive Exercises, and
Gesture. The Work will now, it is hoped, be found still more
worthy of the flattering encomiums it has received from the Press
and the Professional Public.