DEFECTIVE SPEECH,
as lisping, stammering, stuttering, &c., can be entirely cured by a study and diligent practice of elocution.
UNPLEASANT VOICES,
either shrill, nasal, throaty, husky, or with any other disagreeable quality, can be made agreeable by practice of elocution.
To meet all these wants, this treatise has been prepared. Embracing as it does a thorough exposition of the principles of elocution in an eminently practical form, adapted to the requirements of the student, the professional man, and the amateur, by a graduate of the Boston School of Oratory (acknowledged to be the best Institute of Elocution America has produced), himself a successful teacher and reader, it seems to present the whole science in a nutshell, so that he "who runs may read" in reality, if he but follow the instructions of this Manual. Here elocution is not only simplified, but, in this neat and cheap form, placed within the reach of all.
GEORGE M. BAKER.