A Companion to Baker's Reading Club.

ELOCUTION SIMPLIFIED;
WITH
AN APPENDIX ON LISPING, STAMMERING, STUTTERING,
AND OTHER DEFECTS OF SPEECH.

BY
WALTER K. FOBES,
GRADUATE OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ORATORY.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY
GEORGE M. BAKER,
AUTHOR OF THE READING-CLUB SERIES, ETC.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.
1877.

COPYRIGHT.
1877,
By Walter K. Fobes.

THIS LITTLE BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO
Prof. LEWIS B. MONROE,
IN TESTIMONY OF APPRECIATION OF HIS MANY QUALIFICATIONS AS A
TEACHER OF THIS ART, AND OF THE RESPECT AND AFFECTION
WITH WHICH HE WILL EVER BE
REGARDED BY HIS FRIEND
AND PUPIL,
THE AUTHOR.

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PREFACE.

"Why write this book?" say you.
"Because it is needed," say I.

There is no "digest" of elocution that is bothmethodical and practical, and that is low in price, nowin the market.

This book is an epitome of the science of elocution,containing nothing that is not necessary for you toknow, if you wish to make yourself a good reader orspeaker.

You who will thoroughly study and digest this book,and then put in practice what you here have learned,will have started on the road, the goal of which isOratory.

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CONTENTS.