MORNING LEAGUE QUESTIONS FOR REPORT Text-books-" The Smile" and "How to Add Ten Years to Your Life Those who will study these books carefully and report the results of their practice and self-studies, or answer any of the following questions will receive a personal letter of advice. It is not necessary to repeat the questions. Simply use figures. 1. What is your occupation or profession? 2. How many hours a day do you work? 3. How many hours a day do you play? 4. Do you work and play regularly? 5. Do you enjoy your work, that is, do you unite the spirit of your play with your work? 6. What do you honestly regard as your greatest hindrance in life? 7. Have you beer able to smile when tempted to frown? 8. Have you, with Socrates, controlled some feeling by expressing the opposite? 9. Can you look upon difficulties as opportunities? 10. In the study of your own inner life have you found the 66 Great Divide "? See page 38. 11. Do you know what it means to be "led by the spirit"? 12. Do you think more over your hopes and helps than over your hindrances? 13. Do you enjoy talking about your difficulties and troubles? 14. How far does the spirit of the smile penetrate your life? 15. Does the smile predominate in your intercourse with others? 16. How many hours are you out of doors each day? 17. Do you positively enjoy intercourse with Nature? 18. In what phase of Nature study are you most interested? 19. Do you take regular walks and have direct contact with Nature? 20. Do you feel your courage increase in meeting difficulties? 21. Do you take more interest in the weaknesses or in the strong points of people? (For other questions, see "How to Add Ten Years to Your Life") Province of Expression. Principles and method of developing delivery. An Introduction to the study of the natural languages, and their relation to art and development. By S. S. Curry, Ph.D., Litt.D. $1.50; to teachers, $1.20, postpaid. Your volume is to me a very wonderful book,-it is so deeply philosophic, and so exhaustive of all aspects of the subject. No one can read your book without at least gaining a high ideal of the study of expression. You have laid a deep and strong foundation for a scientific system. And now we wait for the superstructure.-Professor Alexander Melville Bell. It is a most valuable book, and ought to be instrumental in doing much good.-Professor J. W. Churchill, D.D. A book of rare significance and value, not only to teachers of the vocal arts, but also to all students of fundamental pedagogical principle. In its field know of no work presenting in an equally happy combination philosophic insight, scientific breadth, moral loftiness of tone, and literary felicity of exposition.—William F. Warren, D.D., LL.D., of Boston University. Lessons in Vocal Expression. The expressive modulations of the voice developed by studying and training the voice and mind in relation to each other. Eighty-six definite problems and progressive steps. By S. S. Curry, Ph.D., Litt.D. $1.25; to teachers, $1.10, postpaid. It ought to do away with the artificial and mechanical styles of teaching.— Henry W. Smith, A.M., Professor of Elocution, Princeton University. Through the use of your text-book on vocal expression, I have had the past term much better results and more manifest interest on the subject than ever before.-A. H. Merrill, A.M., late Professor of Elocution, Vanderbilt University. The subject is handled in a new and original manner, and cannot fail to revolutionize the old elocutionary ideas.-Mail and Empire, Toronto. It is capital, good sense, and real instruction.-W. E. Huntington, LL.D., Ex-President of Boston University. Imagination and Dramatic Instinct. Func tion of the imagination and assimilation in the vocal interpretation of literature and speaking. By S. S. Curry, Litt.D. $1.50; to teachers, $1.20, postpaid. Dr. Curry well calls the attention of speakers to the processes of thinking in the modulation of the voice. Every one will be benefited by reading his volumes. Too much stress can hardly be laid on the author's ground principle, that where a method aims to regulate the modulation of the voice by rules, then inconsistencies and lack of organic coherence begin to take the place of that sense of life which lies at the heart of every true product of art. On the contrary, where vocal expression is studied as a manifestation of the processes of thinking, there results the truer energy of the student's powers and the more natural unity of the complex elements of his expression.-Dr. Lyman Abbott, in The Outlook. Address: Book Dept., School of Expression, 306 Pierce Bldg., Copley Square, Boston, Mass. Mind and Voice. Principles underlying all phases of Vocal Training. The psychological and physiological conditions of tone production and scientific and artistic methods of developing them. A work of vital importance to every one interested in improving the qualities of the voice and in correcting slovenly speech. 456 pages. By S. S. Curry, Litt.D. $1.50, postpaid. To teachers, $1.25, postpaid. It is indeed a masterly and stimulating work.-Amos R. Wells, Editor Christian World. It is a book that will be of immense help to teachers and preachers, and to others who are using their vocal organs continuously. As an educational work on an important theme, the book has a unique value.-Book News Monthly. There is pleasure and profit in reading what he says.-Evening Post (Chicago). Fills a real need in the heart and library of every true teacher and student of the development of natural vocal expression.-Western Recorder (Louisville). Get it and study it and you will never regret it.—Christian Union Herald (Pittsburg). Foundation of Expression. Fundamentals of a psychological method of training voice, body, and mind and of teaching speaking and reading. 236 problems; 411 choice passages. A thorough and practical text-book for school and college, and for private study. By S. S. Curry, Litt.D. $1.25; to teachers, $1.10, postpaid. It means the opening of a new door to me by the master of the garden.— Frank Putnam. Mastery of the subject and wealth of illustration are manifest in all your treatment of the subject. Should prove a treasure to any man who cares for effective public speaking.-Professor L. O. Brastow, Yale. Adds materially to the author's former contributions to this science and art, to which he is devoting his life most zealously.—Journal of Education. May be read with profit by all who love literature.-Denis A. McCarthy, Sacred Heart Review. It gets at the heart of the subject and is the most practical and clearest book on the important steps in expression that I have ever read.-Edith W. Moses. How splendid it is; it is at once practical in its simplicity and helpfulness and inspiring. Every teacher ought to be grateful for it.-Jane Herendeen, Teacher of Expression in Jamaica Normal School, N. Y. Best, most complete, and up-to-date.-Alfred Jenkins Shriver, LL.B., Baltimore. Public speakers and especially the young men and women in high schools, academies, and colleges will find here one of the most helpful and suggestive books by one of the greatest living teachers of the subject, that was ever presented to the public.-John Marshall Barker, Ph.D., Professor in Boston University. Address: Book Dept., School of Expression, 306 Pierce Bldg., Copley Square, Boston, Mass. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue. Nature and peculiarities of Browning's poetry. How to understand Browning. The principles involved in rendering the monologue. An introduction to Browning, and to dramatic platform art. By S. S. Curry, Litt.D., $1.25; to teachers, $1.10, postpaid. It seems to me to attack the central difficulty in understanding and reading Robert Browning's poetry. It opens a wide door to the greatest poetry of the modern age.—The Rev. John R. Gow, President of the Boston Browning Society. A book which sheds an entirely new light on Browning and should be read by every student of the great master; indeed, everyone who would be well informed should read this book, which will interest any lover of literature.-Journal of Education. Spoken English. A method of co-ordinating impression and expression in reading, conversation, and speaking. It contains suggestions on the importance of observation and adequate impression, and nature study, as a basis to adequate expression. The steps are carefully arranged for the awakening of the imagination and dramatic instinct, right feeling, and natural, spontaneous expression. 320 pages. By S. S. Curry, Litt.D., Ph.D. Price, $1.25; to teachers, $1.10, postpaid. Every page had something that caught my attention. You certainly have grasped the great principle of vocal expression.-Edwin Markham. Those who aim at excelling in public utterance and address may well possess themselves of this work.-Journal of Education. The specialist in reading will wish to add it to his book-shelf for permanent reference.-Normal Instructor. A masterly presentation of ideas and expression as applied in a wide range of excellent selections.-The World's Chronicle. Little Classics for Oral English. A companion to Spok en English. The problems correspond by sections with Spoken English. The books may be used together or separately. The problems are arranged in the form of questions which the student can answer properly only by rightly rendering the passages. It is a laboratory method for spoken English, to be used by the first year students in High School or the last years of the Grammar School. 384 pages. By S. S. Curry, Litt.D. Price, $1.25; to teachers, $1.10, postpaid. I am using Little Classics for Oral English in two classes and believe it is the most satisfactory text that I have used. The students seem to be able to get easily the principles from your questions and problems.-Elva M. Forncrook, St. Nor. Sch., Kalamazoo, Mich. A fine collection of fine things especially suited to young people. Every teacher of reading and English in our secondary schools ought to have the book.-Prof. Lee Emerson Bassett, Leland Stanford University, Cal. Address: Book Dept., School of Expression, 306 Pierce Bldg., Copley Square, Boston, Mass. What Students and Graduates Think of the School of Expression "We know that there is something BIG here. If only we can get it out to the world."-Caroline A. Hardwick (Philosophic Diploma), Instructor in Reading and Speaking, Wellesley College. "At no other institution is it possible to secure the training one secures at the School of Expression. It is far broader than a mere training for speaking. It is a fundamental training for life."-Florence E. Lutz (Philosophic Diploma), Instructor in Pantomime, New York City. "The School of Expression taught me how to LIVE. I think its training of the personality is its greatest work."— F. M. Sargent (Dramatic Artist's Diploma). "I feel deeply indebted to the School for some of the best and most lasting inspiration I have received for my own work as a teacher of my fellow-men."-Luella Clay Carson, Pres. of Mills College. "The success I have attained in my profession as a reader, I owe directly to the advanced methods of the School of Expression." Caroline Foye Flanders (Artistic Diploma), pression."-Caroline Public Reader, Manchester, N. H. "The School of Expression of Boston is the most thorough and best in the country. It is different from all other schools. I wish I could talk to any who intend taking a course of study. -I would say, Go to the School of Expression and if there is anything in you, they will bring it out; they will teach you to know youself; they will show you what you are in comparison with what you may become, and they will begin with the cause and start from the_bottom."-Hamilton Colman, Member Richard Mansfield Co. "When I was your student you held before me intellectual and ethical ideals which I am still trying to realize.”—Charles L. White, D.D., Ex-President Colby College. "The same principles of education which have installed manual training in public schools are even more applicable to the training of men's souls to rational self-expression. Dr. Curry will some day be recognized to have been an educational philosopher for having championed principles no less true of the spoken word than of every form of creative self-expression."-Dean Shailer Mathews, University of Chicago. "The whole world ought to learn about the School of Expression and your discoveries."—Rev. J. Stanley Durkee (Speaker's Diploma), Boston. |