Delsarte System of Oratory

Copyright By Edgar S. Werner 1882, 1884, 1887, 1892
Preliminary Ideas--Criterion of the Oratorical Art.
Organic Apparatus of the Voice--The Voice in Relation to Compass--The Voice in Relation to Vowels--Practical Conclusions
What is Understood by Intensity of Sound--Means of Augmenting the Timbre of the Voice--Rules for Intensity of Sound
Of Slowness and Rapidity in Oratorical Delivery--Of Respiration and Silence--Inflections--Rules of Inflection--Special Inflections
Gesture is the Direct Agent of the Heart--Gesture is the Interpreter of Speech--Gesture is an Elliptical Language
The Priority of Gesture to Speech--Retroaction--Opposition of Agents--Number of Gestures--Duration of Gesture--The Rhythm of Gesture--Importance of the Laws of Gesture
The Head--Movements of the head: The Normal State, The Eccentric State, The Concentric State--Of the Eyes--Of the Eyebrows
The Chest--The Shoulders.
The Arms--Inflections of the Forearm--Of the Elbow--Of the Wrist--Of the Hand: The Digital Face, The Back Face, The Palmar Face--Of the Fingers--Of the Legs.
The Types which Characterize Gesture--Of Gesture Relative to its Modifying Apparatus
The Conjunction--The Interjection in Relation to its Degree of Value--A Resumé of the Degrees of Value