Chapter XL: Introduction: , iii

INVENTORY OF SPEECH EFFICIENCY, 11

_Irish Castles_, 344

_Ironsides, Old_, 625

Irwin, Wallace, 389, 421

_Isles, The Fortunate_, 583

J

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 498, 521

James, George Wharton, 119

Jaw, Exercises for the, 27

_Jeanie Morrison_, 424

_Jim, Lucky_, 357

_Jolly Good Friendship, A_, 568

_John Anderson, My Jo_, 574

Jones, Sir William, 55

Jordan, David Starr, 560, 694

_Josiah and Symanthy_, 408

Joyce, Robert Dwyer, 503

_Joy of the Hills, The_, 610

_Joy of the Human Voice_, 100

_Joy of Reading_, 119

K

_Kaweah’s Run_, 275

Keeler, Charles, 407, 408

Kelly, Myra, 137

_Kentucky Philosophy_, 379

_Khaki, A Prayer in_, 522

Kilmer, Joyce, 611

King, Ben, 327

King, Clarence, 275

_King and the Poet, The_, 213

_King’s Singer, The True Ballad of the_, 498

Kipling, Rudyard, 50, 63, 65, 68, 70, 355, 417, 471, 496, 515, 554,
574, 614, 634

_Kissing’s No Sin_, 412

Knowles (William Tell), 68

L

_Labor_, 543, 629

_L’Allegro_, 629

Lamb, Charles, 436

_Land of Heart’s Regret, The_, 638

_Lane, Down the_, 581

_Last Tattoo, The_, 552

_Leap, Peabody’s_, 207

_Lebanon, As I Came Down from_, 587

_Lee, Annabel_, 430

_ ” ” The Lover of_, 431

_Legend of Lake Champlain_, 207

Le Gallienne, Hesper, 581

_L’Envoi_, 554

_Les Miserables_ (quoted), 218

_Lesson, A Singing_, 622

_Lesson of Life, The_, 582

_Lesson of the Tragedy, The_, 694

_Life and Love_, 591

_Limerick, The Blacksmith of_, 503

_Lincoln, Abraham_, 66, 323, 671, 673, 684

_Lincoln, Abraham, Funeral_, 453

_ ” ” Man of the People_, 546

_Lincoln, Abraham, Walks at Midnight_, 520

Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel, 520

Linen, James, 436

Lips and Jaw, Exercises for, 28

Liquid Sounds, 29

Literature, How to Judge, 4

” Ideals in, 2

” Joy in, 4

” Necessity of Love for, 2

” Western, vii

_Little Billee_, 360

_ ” Brother_, 177

_ ” Fir Tree_, 191

_ ” Miss Study and Miss Play_, 343

_ ” Peach, The_, 360

_ ” Lady, When She Fell Ill_, 167

_Living, Daily_, 2

Lloyd, Robert, 299

_Lodore, How the Waters Come Down at_, 44

Longfellow, H. W., 54, 59, 64, 67, 447, 527, 578, 590, 630

London, Jack, 183, 259

_Lotus Eaters, The_, 620

_L’Overture, Toussaint_, 686

_Lost Youth, My_, 527

_Love, Life and_, 591

_ ” of Country_, 475

_ ” The Hieroglyphics of_, 288

_ ” Virtues of_, 22

_Lover of Annabel Lee_, 431

Lover, Samuel, 381

Lowell, James R., 19, 25, 71, 399

_Lucky Jim_, 357

_Lullaby, Mammy’s_, 602

Lyric Selections, 554 _et seq._

M

Mahony, Francis, 635

_Majesty of the Ocean_, 23

Malooney, Mistur, 383

_Mammy’s Lullaby_, 602

_Mandalay_, 614

_Man in the Shadow, The_, 250

_Man Under the Stone, The_, 486

_Man Who Wears the Button, The_, 103

_Man with the Hoe, The_, 470

Markham, Edwin, 311, 470, 477, 479, 485, 486, 540, 546, 610, 613, 637

Martin, William Wesley, 588

_Mary’s Night Ride_, 204

_Mary Cary_ (quoted), 132

_Master, The Face of the_, 172

Mastery of a Selection, 111

_Match, A_, 589

Mathews, Amanda, 288

McCarthy, J. H., 220

McClung, Littell, 362

M’Cluskey, Kate Wisner, 600

McIntyre, Robert, 526

McKillip-Stanwood, 125

_McNeal, The Ride of Jennie_, 507

_McTeague_ (quoted), 226

_Meadow Larks_, 604

MELODIOUS READING, 301 _et seq._

_Memorabilia_, 99

_Memory, Pictures of_, 609

_M-Made Memory Medley, My_, 37

_Mermaid, Who Would Be a_, 73

_Memorial Day Address_, 700

MEMORY, CULTIVATION OF, 714 _et seq._

_Merchant of Venice_ (quoted), 654

_Message to Garcia_, 9, 315

_Michael Strogoff, Courier of the Czar_, 233

_Mighty Majestic Mind_, 40

_Millionaire, The Dead_, 585

Miller, Joaquin, 105, 465, 477, 519, 583, 584, 585, 586, 626

Milnes, Richard Monckton, 579

Milton, John, 619

_Minaret Bells, The_, 621

_Misfortunes of Little Ike Templin_, 161

Mitchell, Ruth Comfort, 351

_Mocking-Bird in California, To a_, 561

Montague, James J., 330

Mood-Analysis, 102, 317

_Moo-Cow-Moo_, 396

_Moon-Cradle, The_, 600

_Morning_, 540

_Morrison, Jeanie_, 424

_Mother and Poet_, 442

Motherwell, William, 424

_Mountain Mist, The_, 581

_Mournful Tale of the Snee Zee Familee_, 353

Muir, John, 16, 255, 258

_ ” Poem on_, 569

Mulock, Dinah, 601

Mundy, Talbot, 50

_Music of America, The_, 21

_My Country_, 575

_My Heart Leaps Up_, 322

_My Love’s Like a Red Rose_, 617

_My Rival_, 355

_My Sword Song_, 628

_Mystic, Song of the_, 531

N

_Napoleon and Coat of Mail_, 20

Nasal Sounds, 29

_Nathan Foster_, 121

_Nathan Hale_, 440

Nattkemper, Leonard G., 403, 419, 420, 621

_Nature in Verse_, 58

_Newbrasky’s Fertile Shore, On_, 416

Newman, Cardinal, 676

_Night, A Bad_, 131

_Night Ride, Mary’s_, 204

Norris, Frank, 226, 279

_No Shootin’ Off This Year_, 406

O

O’Brien, Fitz-James, 344

_O Captain, My Captain_, 171

_Ocean, Apostrophe to the_, 536

_ ” Majesty of_, 23

_Octopus, The_ (quoted), 279

_Oh, I Dunno_, 380

_Old Familiar Faces, The_, 436

_Old Ironsides_, 625

_Old Times_, 595

_Old Woman of the Road, The_, 616

_One, Two, Three_, 337

_On Newbrasky’s Fertile Shore_, 416

_Opportunity_, 476

ORAL READING, 13, 116 _et seq._

” ” AND THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEECH, 671 _et seq._

_Order for a Picture, An_, 344

_Orphan, An Unthankful_, 132

_Oswald Dined with God, How_, 477

_Othello’s Apology_, 657

_Our Flag_, 554

_Out in the Fields with God_, 539

Outline, Condensed, 116

_Overworked Reciter, An_, 156

Owen, J. J., 537

_Ownership_, 605

P

Palate, Exercises for the Soft, 28

_Palermo, Catacombs of_, 146

_Paradise Bar, The Funeral at_, 364

_Passin’ By_, 423

Pathetic Selections, 167 _et seq._, 423 _et seq._

_Patriot, The_, 429

_Pauline Pavlovna_, 490

Paul, St., 22

Pause, A Study of, 311

” Kinds of, 313

_Pavlovna, Pauline_, 490

_Peabody’s Leap_, 207

Perry, James Raymond, 323

Personality, Pleasing, 12

_Pessimist, The_, 327

_Peter Cooper_, 589

_Peter, The Intervention of_, 293

_Petrified Fern, The_, 541

Phillips, Wendell, 686

Phyfe’s Words Mispronounced, 88

_Picture, An Order for a_, 334

_Pictures of Memory_, 609

Pierpont, John, 524

_Pioneer Celebration Speech_, 679

_Pippa Passes, Song from_, 57, 58, 627

_Pisgah Sight_, 321

Pitch, A Study of, 306

Pittsinger, Eliza A., 597

_Plain Language from Truthful James_, 375

Poe, Edgar Allan, 70, 430

_Poet, The King and the_, 213

Poetical Selections, 334 _et seq._

POETRY, HOW TO READ, 328 _et seq._

_Poor Little Birdies, The_, 363

_Potion Scene from Romeo and Juliet_, 660

_Poverty, Honest_, 547

_Prayer, A Fool’s_, 549

_Prayer in Khaki, A_, 522

_President Lincoln’s Funeral_, 453

Pronunciation, What Is, 27

PRONUNCIATION AND ENUNCIATION, 82 _et seq._

Pronunciation, Drill in, 88

” Key to, 88

Prose Selections, 119 _et seq._

Proteus, 23

Progressive Analysis, 112

_Put Flowers on My Grave_, 435

R

_Rainy Day, A_, 402

Read, Thomas Buchanan, 63, 67, 571

READING AND PUBLIC SPEECH, 1 _et seq._

Reading, Intelligent, vii

” Intelligible, vii, 99

READING, MELODIOUS, vii, 301 _et seq._

READING, ORAL, 13

Realf, Richard, 590, 591, 592, 628

_Recessional, The_, 574

_Reciprocity_, 337

_Reciter, An Overworked_, 156

_Red Rose, My Love Is Like a_, 617

_Redwoods, The_, 683

Reed, Myrtle, 172

_Republic, The Destiny of This_, 698

Reese, Lowell Otus, 438

_Return of the Hoe, The_, 164

_Revenge, The_, 512

Rhodes, W. H., 688

Ricker, R., 20

_Ride of Jennie McNeal_, 507

_Righteous Wrath_, 536

Riley, James Whitcomb, 71, 550

Rising Inflection, Overcoming, 45

_Rival, My_, 355

_Rivals, The_, 328

_Roads, The Old Woman of the_, 616

Robertson, Harrison, 379

_Rocking the Baby_, 434

_Romeo and Juliet_ (quoted), 660

_Rory O’More_, 381

Rowan (_Message to Garcia_), 9

Ruskin, John, 3

Russell, Irwin, 394

Ryan, Abram J., 531

S

_Sandpiper and I_, 71

_Sand Storm, The_, 438

_San Gabriel, The Bells of_, 631

_Santa Claus Forgot, Why_, 460

_School’s Commenced_, 403

Scollard, Clinton, 581, 587

Scott, John Milton, 552, 554, 559, 561, 644

Scott, Sir Walter, 51, 55, 64, 70, 305, 472, 475

Scripture, E. W., 75

_Sea, The_, 533

_ ” Christmas at_, 510

_ ” Wolves of the_, 624

_Seamstress, Song of the_, 592

_Seat, How Cy Hopkins Got a_, 155

Selections, How Made, vi

_Settling Under Difficulties_, 157

_Serenade_, 578

_Seven Ages, The_, 658

_S-H-H-H!_, 388

Shakespeare, 9, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 69, 71, 309, 310, 501,
654, 656, 657

_Shandon, The Bells of_, 636

Shortridge, S. M., 700

_She Liked Him Rale Weel_, 387

Shelley, P. B., 51

Shoup, Paul, 364

_Sierra Nevada_, 16

_Sierras, To the_, 537

_Sign of the Cross_, 187

Sill, E. Rowland, 53, 476, 540, 549

_Similar Case, A_, 353

_Simon Short’s Son Samuel_, 33

_Singing Lesson, A_, 622

_Sir Galahad_, 475

_Sleep_, 542

Smart, Frank Preston, 322

_Smike_ (Dickens), 54

Smith, Lewis Worthington, 527

_Snee Zee Familee, The Mournful, Tale of the_, 353

_Sodding as a Fine Art_, 158

_Solitude Preferred to Court Life_, 659

_Sombre_, 267

_Something to Love_, 538

_Somewhere Adown the Years_, 577

_Song, My Sword_, 628

_ ” of the Brook_, 603

_ ” of the Bullets_, 644

_ ” of the Flume_, 598

_ ” of the Indian Mother_, 594

_ ” of the Mystic_, 531

_ ” of the Seamstress_, 592

_ ” of Spring_, 592

_ ” The Arrow and the_, 630

_ ” The Cavalier’s_, 473

_Son of Copper Sin, A_, 262

Soule, Frank, 543

_Soul Sublime_, 41

Southey, Robert, 44

Speaker, How to Become a Good, 2

SPEECH, DEFECTS, CORRECTION OF, 75

SPEECH, EFFECTIVE, 6

SPEECH EFFICIENCY, INVENTORY OF, 11

Speech, Enjoyment of, iii

” Expressive, 299

” Force and Rate of, 62

” Importance of, iii, iv

_Spinning Wheel Song, The_, 580

_Springtime_, 621

_Squirrel, The Douglas_, 16

Stammerer, Characteristics of, 77

Stammering, How to Cure, 75

_Startling Adventure, A_, 150

Stephenson, R. L., 510

Sterling, George, 487, 489

Stewart, Dennar, 432

Stoddard, Charles Warren, 631

Stokes, William, 319

_Straight Jacket, Torture of the_, 259

Story, William Wetmore, 267

” Judge, 698

Stott, Roscoe Gilmore, 21

Stress, A study in, 308

_Strogoff, Michael, Courier of the Czar_, 233

STUTTERING AND LISPING, 75

Sublime Selections in Poetry, 531 _et seq._

Sub-Vocal Sounds, 28

_Sunset_, 538

_Sunshine_, 331

Sutherland, Howard V., 570

Swallowing the G, 43

Swinburne, A. C., 589

_Switch-Engine_ (exercise), 43

Sympathetic Reading, 98

_Symphony, Channing’s_, 324

T

_Tan, Under the_, 527

_Tattoo, The Last_, 552

Teacher’s Great Task, 13

Tennyson, Alfred, 50, 59, 66, 69, 74, 322, 433, 475, 512, 603, 620,
633

Thackeray, W., 360, 621

_Thanks for America and Its Flag_, 559

Thaxter, Celia, 72

Theme, Mastery of, 111

_Theophilus Thistle_ (exercise), 35

_There Was a Man_, 560

_Thief, Da_, 435

_Third Party, A Gallant_, 377

_Thoughts from Bub_, 419

_Thurru’ Rest, A_, 405

Thurston, John Mellen, 103

_Tiger’s Cave, The_, 239

_To a Usurper_, 354

_To Germany_, 487

_Tommy_, 471

Tompkins, Juliet Wilbur, 193

Tongue, Exercises for, 28

” Twisters, 30

Tone, Study of Importance of, 313

_Torture of Strait-Jacket_, 259

_To the War Lords_, 489

_Toussaint L’Overture_, 686

Tracey, Frederick Palmer, 678

_Tragedy, A Desert_, 226

_ ” The Lessons of the_, 694

_Tragic Story, A_, 362

_Trailman, The_, 569

_Tramp, The Young_, 339

_Travers’ First Hunt_, 202

_Trees_, 611

_True Ballad of King’s Singer_, 498

_Truthful James, Plain Language from_, 375

_Truthful James, Parody on_, 377

Twain, Mark, 316

_Twilight Fancies_, 577

_Two Georges, The_, 688

U

_Understaendlich_, 404

_Under the Tan_, 527

_Unexpected Adventure, An_, 258

_Unthankful Orphan, An_, 132

_Usual Way, The_, 341

_Usurper, To a_, 354

V

Van Dyke, Henry, 4, 57, 71, 72, 536

_Vegetable Man, The_, 420

_Vengeance Is Thine_, 641

Verne, Jules, 233

Vest, Senator, 710

_Viking, The Death-Song of the_, 506

_Villon, Story of_, 213

_Vinegar Man, The_, 351

_Virtues of Love_, 22

_Vision Rises, A_, 676

_Vision of War_, 324

Vocalization of Selections, 115

Voice and Spiritual Education, 97

” Use of, 11

_ ” of the Dove_, 586

_ ” from a Far Country_, 174

Vowel Sounds, Various, 89

W

Wagner, Madge Morris, 434

Waller, John Francis, 580

Walsh, Thomas, 534

_Walton’s Prayer, Ike_, 550

_War_, 474

_War Lords, To the_, 489

_Warren’s Address_, 524

_Warren, Joseph_, 310

Waterhouse, A. J., 353, 363, 412, 463

_Wave, The Brook and the_, 590

Webster, Daniel, v

Webster’s International Dictionary, 88

_Welcome to Alexandra_, 633

_West, The_, 600

_West, The Ballad of the East and_, 515

Western Literature, vii

_Whale Hunting_, 245

_What Is Our Country_, 678

_Wheat, A Death in the_, 279

_When de Co’n Pone’s Hot_, 397

_When the Grave Shall Cover Me_, 535

_When the Little Lady Fell Ill_, 167

_When Little Sister Came_, 465

_When the Old Man Dreams_, 463

_When the Old Man Smokes_, 466

_Where the West Begins_, 587

_Whistling Boy, The_, 359

Whitaker, Herman, 262

” Robert, 575, 577

Whitman, Walt, 171

_Why?_, 608

_Why Santa Claus Forgot_, 460

Wilder, Marshall P., 155

_Wilhelm, A Few Words from_, 389

_Wind, Hymn of the_, 570

_Windstorm in the Forests_, 255

_Wilson, Woodrow, Inaugural Address_, 675

_Wilson, Woodrow, Exercise on_, 35

_Wolf, Brown_, 183

_Wolves of the Sea, The_, 624

_Woodchuck Exercise_, 30

_Woods, The Honor of the_, 198

Wordsworth, William, 322, 601, 618

Words Often Mispronounced, 88

_Wordy Wabble on Women_, 42

_Work and the Worker_, 20

_Worker’s Guerdon, The_, 322

_Work, The Day and the_, 637

_Wounded, Home_, 621

_Wrath, Righteous_, 536

Y

_Yankee Man of War, The_, 523

_Years, Somewhere Adown the_, 577

_Yosemite_, 584

_Young Tramp, The_, 339

_Youth, My Lost_, 527