The Canadian Elocutionist

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Excerpt from The Canadian Elocutionist: Designed for the Use of Colleges, Schools and for Self Instruction As Quintilian remarks: A proof of the importance of delivery may be drawn from the additional force which the actors give to what is written by the best poets so that what we hear pronounced by them gives infinitely more pleasure than when we only read it. I think, I may affirm that a very indifferent speech, well set off by the speaker, will have a greater effect than the best, if desti tute of that advantage and Henry Irving, in a recent article, says In the practice of acting, a most important point is the study Of elocution and, in elocution one great difficulty is the use of sufficient force to be gener ally heard without being unnaturally loud, and without acquiring a stilted delivery. I never knew an actor who brought the art Of elocution to greater perfection than the late Charles Mathews, whose utterance on the stage was so natural, that one was surprised to find when near him that he was really speaking in a very loud key. Such are some of the testimonies to the value of this art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.