Excerpt from Gaskell's Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial: Embracing a Complete Self-Teaching Course in Penmanship and Bookkeeping, and Aid to English Composition, Including Orthography, Capital Letters, Punctuation, Composition, Elocution, Oratory, Rhetoric, Letter Writing in All Its FormsTwenty-four engravings illustrate Position, Gesture and Expression Of the Passions in Elocution and Oratory. In this department are embraced practical suggestions and rules on Style, Qualities of Voice, Articulation, Force, Gestures, in fact, all that pertains to Culture Of the Voice and Delivery. The student Of Elocution and Oratory will Obtain here much that is interesting and profitable, while all who desire to give an easy and forci ble expression to their thoughts or their selec tions will find this subject treated with suffi cient fullness for all ordinary purposes.The minute analysis Of letters given under Letter Writing, will secure an appreciation of the importance Of care in preparing letters in general while the forms given, and their ex planation, in conjunction with the treatise on Penmanship, furnish the means for neatness, exactness and dispatch in business correspond ence, as well as propriety, gentility and dignity in social notes, letters and invitations.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.