Excerpt from Advanced Elocution: Designed as a Practical Treatise for Teachers and Students in Vocal Training Articulation, Physical Culture and GestureGrateful acknowledgments are due to authors and pub lishers for their courteous permission to use many of the selections. Acknowledgment is also made for the valuable assistance furnished by Professors John H. Bechtel and George B. Hynson. He former, from his careful study. And his experience in teaching Orthoepy, has most accept ably prepared the department of Articulation and the latter has no less ably prepared the department of Voice Culture.Believing the book will receive the recognition it merits be that little or great, the author sends it forth with the humble request that a thorough inspection or a fair trial be given it before a judgment is pronounced.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.