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TABLE OF VOWEL SOUNDS.

A Vowel is a letter which represents a free and uninterrupted sound of the kuman voice.

An Equivalent is a letter or combination of letters used to represent an elementary sound more appropriately represented by another letter or letters. The Equivalents given in these tables are those of more common

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The following vowel sounds cannot be easily pronounced alone, as distinct elements, so as to be distinguished from some of the other sounds.

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TABLE OF CONSONANT SOUNDS.

A Consonant is a letter which cannot be sounded, or but imperfectly, without the aid of a vowel; or, it represents a sound that is modified by some interruption during its passage through the organs of speech.

Vocal Consonants are those uttered with a slight degree of vocality, but less than that of a vowel. They are formed with a vibration of the vocal cords. Aspirate Consonants are those in which the pure breath alone is heard. They are formed without any vibration of the vocal cords.

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Q has the sound of k, and is always followed by u, which, in this position, com monly has the sound of w, but is sometimes silent.

WH is an aspirated w, pronounced as if written hw.

1 Sometimes called Subvocals, or Subtonics.

2 H sounded before a vowel, is an expulsion of the breath after the organs are in a position to sound the vowel.

AN

INTRODUCTORY TREATISE

ON

ELOCUTION;

WITH

PRINCIPLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, ARRANGED FOR TEACHING

AND PRACTICE.

BY

PROF. MARK BAILEY,

INSTRUCTOR OF ELOCUTION IN

YALE COLLEGE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by MARK BAILEY, in the

Clerk's Office of the Listrict Court of Connecticut.

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PREFACE.

GOOD READING includes that mastery of the elements of language and elocution, which teachers and scholars so rarely attain. Articulation and pronunciation must be not only distinct and accurate, but expressive. This last excellence cannot be attained by merely enunciating meaningless sounds and syllables. Too many such mechanical exercises kill the instinctive use and recognition of expressive tones which the child brings to school, and in the end completely divorce his elocution from the spirit and sense to which it should be inseparably wedded, and which alone can inspire natural expression. The child feels and thinks before he talks. Nature, in her teaching, begins with the idea, and in her repeated efforts to express the idea more perfectly, perfects the elementary parts of language and elocution. Let us enlist Nature into our service by following her teachings. Let even the earliest lesson in reading be enlivened by the aid of some idea familiar and interesting to the child. He knows the thing, the idea, "man," or "sun," he has spoken the word a thousand that the mysterious art of

times, and he is pleased to learn reading is only conscious talking, that he is but analyzing, and sounding, and naming the unknown parts of a familiar whole. But especially with the advanced classes, (which are

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