TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Principles ofReading | [1-35] | ||
| Importance of Oral Reading | [1] | ||
| Mechanical Side of Oral Reading | [2] | ||
| Correct Pronunciation, DistinctArticulation. | |||
| Expression | [3] | ||
| Concrete Thinking, Abstract Thinking,Emotion. | |||
| Elements of Vocal Expression | [7] | ||
| Pause, Grouping, Time, Inflection, Pitch, Force,Stress, Emphasis, Shading, Perspective, Quality. | |||
| Selections | [36-305] | ||
The Banner of St. George | Shapcott Wensley | [36] |
Jean Valjean and the Bishop | Victor Hugo | [38] |
The Well of St. Keyne | Robert Southey | [43] |
Faith, Hope and Charity | Bible | [46] |
The Legend Beautiful | Henry W. Longfellow | [47] |
The Vicar's Family Use Art | Oliver Goldsmith | [52] |
The Soldier's Dream | Oliver Goldsmith | [58] |
Van Elsen | Frederick George Scott | [60] |
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu | Sir Walter Scott | [61] |
The Day is Done | Henry W. Longfellow | [63] |
The Schoolmaster and the Boys | Charles Dickens | [65] |
The Knights' Chorus | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [70] |
The Northern Star | Unknown | [71] |
The Indigo Bird | Ethelwyn Wetherald | [72] |
The Pasture Field | Ethelwyn Wetherald | [73] |
Shipwrecked | Robert Louis Stevenson | [75] |
On His Blindness | John Milton | [80] |
Briggs in Luck | William M. Thackeray | [81] |
The Laughing Sally | Charles G. D. Roberts | [84] |
The Prodigal Son | Bible | [88] |
Christmas at Sea | Robert Louis Stevenson | [90] |
The Evening Wind | William Cullen Bryant | [93] |
Paradise and the Peri | Thomas Moore | [95] |
The Lady of Shalott | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [100] |
Home they brought her Warrior dead | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [107] |
The Sky | John Ruskin | [108] |
The Return of the Swallows | Edmund W. Gosse | [111] |
Barbara Frietchie | John Greenleaf Whittier | [113] |
Bless the Lord, O My Soul | Bible | [116] |
The Eternal Goodness | John Greenleaf Whittier | [118] |
The King of Glory | Bible | [119] |
The Four-Horse Race | "Ralph Connor" | [121] |
Mrs. Malaprop's Views | Richard B. Sheridan | [126] |
The Glove and the Lions | Leigh Hunt | [131] |
The Fickleness of a Roman Mob | William Shakespeare | [133] |
Sir Peter and Lady Teazle | Richard B. Sheridan | [136] |
The Parting of Marmion and Douglas | Sir Walter Scott | [140] |
Columbus | Joaquin Miller | [143] |
From the "Apology" of Socrates | Benjamin Jowett | [145] |
Highland Hospitality | Sir Walter Scott | [151] |
The Outlaw | Sir Walter Scott | [154] |
Of Studies | Francis, Lord Bacon | [157] |
The Influence of Athens | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay | [159] |
National Morality | John Bright | [161] |
Hamlet's Advice to the Players | William Shakespeare | [164] |
Rosabelle | Sir Walter Scott | [166] |
The Island of the Scots | William E. Aytoun | [168] |
Cranford Society | Mrs. Gaskell | [178] |
Sir Galahad | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [182] |
Song for Saint Cecilia's Day | John Dryden | [186] |
The Day was Lingering | Charles Heavysege | [189] |
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | John Keats | [189] |
Great Things Were Ne'er Begotten in anHour | Sir Daniel Wilson | [190] |
A Wood Lyric | William Wilfred Campbell | [191] |
To Night | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [193] |
The Opening Scene at the Trial of WarrenHastings | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay | [194] |
Peroration of Opening Speech against WarrenHastings | Edmund Burke | [201] |
The Song My Paddle Sings | E. Pauline Johnson | [203] |
The Defence of the Bridge | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay | [206] |
On the Death of King Edward VII | Sir Herbert Henry Asquith | [217] |
The Heroes of Magersfontein | The London Daily News | [221] |
Funeral of Julius Cæsar | William Shakespeare | [225] |
The Revenge | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [234] |
Hervé Riel | Robert Browning | [241] |
The Handwriting on the Wall | Bible | [248] |
Paul's Defence before King Agrippa | Bible | [251] |
The Stranded Ship | Charles G. D. Roberts | [254] |
Sir Patrick Spens | Old Ballad | [258] |
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury | Old Ballad | [262] |
The Key to Human Happiness | George Eliot | [266] |
The Vision of Sir Launfal | James Russell Lowell | [271] |
On the Death of Gladstone | Sir Wilfrid Laurier | [278] |
The Downfall of Wolsey | William Shakespeare | [286] |
The Italian in England | Robert Browning | [290] |
Advantages of Imperial Federation | George Monro Grant | [296] |
Collect for Dominion Day | Charles G. D. Roberts | [305] |
| Appendix | A. Exercises in Vocalization and Articulation | [306] | |
B. Physical Exercises | [312] | ||
C. List of Reference Books | [314] | ||