Listening fear...E. v. veq-c-vhx.

Admiration...B vhc. wv. to x ; or E. U. B. seq.
Veneration...B. cr. H D.

Deprecation... B. cl. E U. to the person.
R. 2. x.

Appealing to Heaven...br-seq. E. U.
Appealing to conscience...br-R.

R. 1.

Great shame...B. on E. kneeling on both knees. Mild resignation... B. cr. E. U. kneeling. Sudden grief...Hand on E.-pdb.

R. 2.

Attention demanding silence...L.-R.

Extreme distress ..Hand on F.

r.

R. 2.

Ordinary deliberation... Hand on C.-K.
Melancholy...H. D. B. cl. in front.

SYMBOLS TO BE MARKED ON THE MARGIN.

Swell of the voice.

Lessening of the voice.

Rapidity of utterance.
Slowness of utterance.
Rise of the voice.

Lowering of the voice.

The style or manner of the discourse, and the

emotions requisite for certain passages can be marked also on the margin, or in any vacant space over the words.

The following is a passage from Shakspere, symbolically marked with pause, inflection, and ges

-shq

n

n [MILDLY.] n

Why, rather, sleep liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee.
.7

And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy

O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile,

st

In loathsome beds,

shq-shx

and leav'st the kingly couch,

n

n

A watchcase or a common larum bell.

phf-phq

E.U.

Wilt thou, upon the high and giddy mast,]

B. ap on br

Bshf

Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains

veq-phx [QUICK MANNER.] And in the visitation of the winds,

Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them, With deaf'ning clamours, in the slippery shrouds,

B vef wv

That with the hurly | death itself awakes

br-plx

n

H. sh.

n

Canst thou,707 partial sleep, give thy repose

To the wet sea-boy, in an hour so rude,]

Deny it to a king. Then, happy low, lie]

down,

[RIGHT HAND GRADUALLY APPROACHING H.]

Uneasy lies the head

that wears a crown. ||

The following is an extract from Lord Chatham's speech against the American war, marked only with the necessary pauses, inflections, and emphases, the latter being marked in Italics. Synepy is marked by hyphens :

"I cannot, my Lords, I will not join in congratulation on misfortune-and-disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis."

SELECTIONS FOR READING, RECITATION, AND DECLAMATION.

The poetical pieces are put first in order, that the reader may accustom himself to feel what he reads, and because "the regularity of cadences of verse, and the adjustment of the metrical quantities of syllables and pauses within the cadences, conduce to give a smoothness and melodious expression which cannot be acquired by prose alone." *