. Philosophic elocution: voice culture. A treatise on the structure, development and thorough cultivation of the voice for oratory, reading, etc. valuable item in the cur-riculum and make room for a study which whencorrectly taught becomes not only the grace ofspeaker and reader, but the exegesis of the exe-gete whereby half-blundering commentators arecorrected and explained. It needs no hesitationto assert that in a chair of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres the educated elocutionist accomplishedin the grace of gesture would, cceteris paribus, bea threefold better teacher than one unskilledtherein;
. Philosophic elocution: voice culture. A treatise on the structure, development and thorough cultivation of the voice for oratory, reading, etc. valuable item in the cur-riculum and make room for a study which whencorrectly taught becomes not only the grace ofspeaker and reader, but the exegesis of the exe-gete whereby half-blundering commentators arecorrected and explained. It needs no hesitationto assert that in a chair of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres the educated elocutionist accomplishedin the grace of gesture would, cceteris paribus, bea threefold better teacher than one unskilledtherein; and it may be fairly questioned if therecan be thorough and effective instruction in theformer branches unless supplemented by thelatter. 16 INITIAL CHAPTER. Let students consider how widely elocutionreaches, mixing and blending with all they knowand learn, not of English only but of all tongues,not shown alone in li readings or orations, butin composition and in conversation, giving finish,polish, grace and attractiveness to all thingseducational in school or college, because it refinestlie mind. It will be better understood. 17 Plate 1. Anatomical Section—Voice Organs and Cavities, or fissures, in the head bones (frontal and sphenoidal cells).2. Channels of the Nose (sup. mid. and inf. meatus). 3. Hard Palate. Nostril. 5. The Tongue. 6. The Tongue up-lifted, in action. 7. TheLarynx, with thyroid cartilage in front. 8. The Ventricle of Larynx. 9Vocal Cords, or bands. 10 Points to the glottis, or slit between the cordsthrough which the breath passes. 11. Trachea (or Windpipe). 12. Theupper part of Epiglottis, in act of shutting down. 13. The Tonsils oneach side of palate. U. The Uvula, or soft end of palate (lax or pendent).15. Dotted lines—The soft pulute raised. 16. The Eustachian Tube, open-ing to the ear. 17—17. The Pharynx. CHAPTER II. Physiology of Yoice. It is so common to speak of vocal organs, vocalcords, etc., without any true conception of t
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