Abbott, Lyman, 94
Abdominal breathing, 117
Accent, as affecting pronuncia-
tion, 150; recessive character of
English, 167; rhythmic charac-
ter of English, 167; even, 169;
variable, 170
Acoustic conditions as affecting
speech, 270, 272
Action as a speech end, 10
Action in delivery, 57; foundation
of, 58; misconceptions of, 59;
effect and cause in, 62; as an
aid, not an end, 63; for display,
64; final test of, 64; value of
training in, 65; practical exer-
cises in, 103
"Ah" and "uh" habit, cause of,
227; remedy for, 228
American pronunciation versus
English, 148
American voice, the, 191
Analysis of the speech subject,
12; importance of writing in,
Andover Theological Seminary,
president of, 98
As You Like It, 240
Authorities, discrimination in, 17
Bashford, James, 52
Basis of vocal quality, the psycho-
logical, 250
Belief as a speech end, 10
Bell, Alexander Melville, 136
Bells, The, by Edgar Allan Poe,
Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace, 226
Bible, vocal interpretation of, 256,
309, 310
Biographical speech topics, 36
Conversational mode, 37; limits
of, 47
Costal breathing, 116
Crosby, Fanny, 247
Current speech topics, 35
Curry, S. S., 200, 252
Declamation, 318; practical selec-
tions for, 313
Declaration of Independence, the,
speech on, by Lincoln, 27
Delivery, preparing outline for, 25;
misconceptions of speech, 38;
foundation of, 42; the conversa-
tional in, 43; the recited form of,
47; the ministerial form of, 47;
the grandiloquent form of, 47
Discussion, value of, in speech
preparation, 18; as a division
of the speech outline, 23; topics
for, 33
Economic speech topics, 34
Elocution, rules of formal, 251
Eloquence, oration by Webster,
243
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 37
Emotions as affecting the body,
Emphasis, function of, 285; deter-
mining factor of, 286; not a
mechanical principle, 287; care-
less, 289; as applied to new and
repeated ideas, 291; as expres-
sive of contrast, 293; as deter-
mined by context, 294; impor-
tance of thought in, 296; logical
use of, 298; vocal training as a
prerequisite of, 299; by means
of pitch, 302; by means of time,
303; by means of quality, 304;
by means of force, 304
Emphatic gestures, 96
Encyclopedic Dictionary, 176
Ends of a speech, 9
American, 148
Enoch Arden, 265, 302
Entertainment as a speech end,
Enunciation, definition of, 127;
causes of poor, 128; foundation
of, 129; common faults of, 132;
acquiring good, 135
Errors of pronunciation, of vowel
sounds, 151; of consonant
sounds, 163; of accent, 167;
of syllabication, 177; in initial
syllables, 157; in final syllables,
159
Evils of political oratory, 42
Exercises, practical, in outline-
making, 27; for gaining the con-
versational mode, 53; in action,
103; for gaining breath control,
124; in enunciation, 139; in pro-
nunciation, 180; in pitch, 205;
in time, 239; in quality, 263; in
force, 280; in emphasis, 306
Exposition, topics for, 33
False adjustments of the voice,
Final speech plan, 19
Flexibility, vocal, 192, 194; as a
vocal habit, 201; exercises in,
207
Force, discussion of, 268; as re-
lated to acoustics, 270; reserve
power as related to, 273; prac-
tical experience with, 274; as
an expressive element, 275; for
variety of expression, 275; for
securing climax, 278; practical
exercises in, 280; as a means
of emphasis, 304
Foundations of good delivery, 42
Fox, Charles James, 81
Freedom in action, 79
Fulton and Trueblood's Practical
Elocution, 52
Garcia, A Message to, by Elbert
Hubbard, 55
Gaylord, J. S., 326
General ends of public speech, 9
Gesture, should it be taught? 65;
discussion of, 85; what to avoid
in, 86; what to seek in, 87; log-
ical cultivation of, 89; special
Literary speech topics, 35
Locative gestures, 99
Longfellow, Henry W., 213, 260
Lungs, function of, 113
Macbeth, 193, 308
Manner, public and private, of the
speaker, 45; upon the platform,
69
Mechanism, the vocal, III
Melody of speech, 188
Merchant of Venice, The, 264, 284
Message to Garcia, A, by Elbert
Hubbard, 55
Midsummer Night's Dream, A, 239
Mills, Wesley, 110
Ministerial form of delivery, 47
Ministerial tone, 38, 50
Misconceptions of speech de-
livery, 38
Movement, as a vocal element,
229; rate as a phase of, 229
Muscles, function of, in breathing,
Music the Noblest of the Arts, by
Robert G. Ingersoll, 265
Napoleon, Ingersoll's speech on,
214
Nicolay and Hay's Abraham Lin-
coln, 27
Notes of song and of speech, 195;
illustration by a cut, 196
Oral practice in speech prepara-
tion, 26
Orators, lives of, as a speech
topic, 36
Originality in the speech develop-
Outline, tentative, 16; final, 19;
main divisions of, 23; visualiz-
ing, 26; oral practice of, 26;
specimen of, 29
Overuse of the same kind of
gesture, 95
Oxford English Dictionary, 176
Pause, as a speech element, 217;
rhetorical and grammatical, 219;
within a phrase, 224; two essen-
tials of, 225; as manifesting
thought relations, 225; correla-
tion of, with other principles,
226; as a means of variety, 228
Phillips, A. E., 23
Phillips, Wendell, 43, 293; ora-
tory of, as a type, 51
Philosophy of Style, by Herbert
Spencer, 144
Phrasing, true foundation of, 221;
too little, 222; as related to
speech structure, 223; subject
to change, 223; clear expres-
sion by means of, 224
Pitch as a vocal element, 187; mel-
ody, 188; compass, 189; point
of departure in the study of, 191;
key, 192; flexibility, 194; skips
and glides in, 201; practical
exercises in, 205; as a means of
emphasis, 302
Plan of the speech, clearness in,
19; comprehensiveness in, 21;
conciseness in, 22
Planning the speech, I
Platform manners, 69; movements
as related to, 82
Poe, Edgar Allan, 210
Political oratory, 42
Position, the speaker's, 72
Practical exercises in outline-mak-
ing, 27
Practical experiment in breath
control, 120
Practice in enunciation, 136
Preacher's cadence, 38
Pronunciation, defined, 143; un-
usual, 145; best usage in, 146;
sectional, 146; English versus
American, 148; proficiency in,
149; four essentials of, 150;
exercises for proficiency in, 180
Prose, quantity values in, 214;
rhythm of, 236
Proverbs, the book of, 309
Public and private manner, 45
Pulpit oratory, 39
Pulsford, Reverend Hanson, 41
Quality, foundation of, 244; as
affected by disease, 245; as
influenced by habit, 246; as in-
fluenced by character, 247; as
affected by emotion, 248; physi-
ological basis of, 250; things to
avoid in the use of, 253; true
function of, 254; exercises in,
263; as a means of emphasis,
304
Quantity values, in speech, 210; in
prose, 214; importance of, 212
Rapid speaking, 230
Rate, as a speech element, 229;
deliberation as a factor of, 230;
as influenced by temperament,
231; determining factors of,
231, 232; as a means of securing
variety, 233
Reading, value of, in speech prep-
aration, 17
Recited mode of delivery, 47, 50
Reserve power in gesture, 93
Rhythm, as a vocal principle, 234;
used to impress the ear, 235; of
prose, 236; practical importance
of, 238
Ribs and muscles, function of, 112
Riley, James Whitcomb, 264
Sectional pronunciation, 146
Shakespeare, 193, 239, 240, 264,
284, 306, 308, 311
Shurter's Rhetoric of Oratory, 23
Social topics as speech material, 34
Song notes in speech, 195
Speaker's position, 72
Specimen outlines, 29
Speech, melody of, 188; quantity
values in, 210; rhythm, 238
Speech, a, object of, 9; general
ends of, 9; analysis, 12; theme,
13; plan of, 19; topics for, 33
Speech subject, the, how deter-
mined, 4; discrimination in the
choice of, 5; steps in the devel-
opment of, 7; analysis of, 12;
originality and development of,
13; friendly discussion of, 18
Spencer, Herbert, 144
Stormonth's Dictionary, 176
Stump-speaker's tone, 50
Suggestions to Teachers, 313
Suggestive gestures, 96
Suggestive speech topics, 33
Syllabication as affecting pronun-
ciation, 150, 177
Tact and Talent, 275
Temperament as affecting the time
elements of speech, 231
Tennyson, Alfred, 193, 212, 213,
239, 265, 302
Tentative outline, desirability of,
16
Thanatopsis, by Bryant, 213
Theme, choice of, 13
Thomas, President M. Cary, 242
Thurston, John M., 109, 283, 292
Tidal and complemental air, 118
Time, as a vocal element, 209;
quantity as related to, 210;
pause as related to, 217; move-
ment as related to, 229; rhythm
as related to, 234; practical ex-
ercises in, 239; as a means of
emphasis, 303
Tomb of Napoleon, The, by Robert
G. Ingersoll, 214
Tone, use of a confidential, 192
Tone color, 251
Topics for extempore work, 33
Trueblood, Thomas C., 52
Unconversational forms of deliv-
Usage as a guide in pronunciation,
146
Variety, by means of pause, 228;
by rate, 233; by force, 275
Vincent, President, 231
Visualizing the outline, 26
Vocal color, why voices lack, 255;
through emotional responses,
257; through imagination, 258;
through expressive literature,
259; through extempore speak-
ing, 262
Vocal flexibility, 192, 194, 202
Vocal mechanism, nature of, III
Vocal training a prerequisite of
emphasis, 299
Voice, the, compass of, 189; false
adjustments of, 190; the Amer-
ican, 191; flexibility of, 194
Voltaire, 62
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