Province Of Expression. Principles and method of developing delivery.
An Introduction to the study of the natural languages, and their
relation to art and development. By S. S. Curry, Ph.D., Litt.D. $1.50;
to teachers, $1.20, postpaid.
Your volume is to me a very wonderful book,--it is so deeply
philosophic, and so exhaustive of all aspects of the subject.... No
one can read your book without at least gaining a high ideal of the
study of expression. You have laid a deep and strong foundation for
a scientific system. And now we wait for the
superstructure.--Professor Alexander Melville Bell.
It is a most valuable book, and ought to be instrumental in doing
much good.--Professor J. W. Churchill, D.D.
A book of rare significance and value, not only to teachers of the
vocal arts, but also to all students of fundamental pedagogical
principle. In its field I know of no work presenting in an equally
happy combination philosophic insight, scientific breadth, moral
loftiness of tone, and literary felicity of exposition.--William F.
Warren, D.D., LL.D., of Boston University.
Lessons in Vocal Expression. The expressive modulations of the voice
developed by studying and training the voice and mind in relation to
each other. Eighty-six definite problems and progressive steps. By S. S.
Curry, Ph.D., Litt.D. $1.25; to teachers, $1.10, postpaid.
It ought to do away with the artificial and mechanical styles of
teaching.--Henry W. Smith, A.M., Professor of Elocution, Princeton
University.
Through the use of your text-book on vocal expression, I have had
the past term much better results and more manifest interest on the
subject than ever before.--A. H. Merrill, A.M., late Professor of
Elocution, Vanderbilt University.
The subject is handled in a new and original manner, and cannot
fail to revolutionize the old elocutionary ideas.--Mail and Empire,
Toronto.
It is capital, good sense, and real instruction.--W. E. Huntington,
LL.D., Ex-President of Boston University.
Imagination and Dramatic Instinct. Function of the imagination and
assimilation in the vocal interpretation of literature and speaking. By
S. S. Curry, Litt.D. $1.50; to teachers, $1.20, postpaid.
Dr. Curry well calls the attention of speakers to the processes of
thinking in the modulation of the voice. Every one will be
benefited by reading his volumes.... Too much stress can hardly be
laid on the author's ground principle, that where a method aims to
regulate the modulation of the voice by rules, then inconsistencies
and lack of organic coherence begin to take the place of that sense
of life which lies at the heart of every true product of art. On
the contrary, where vocal expression is studied as a manifestation
of the processes of thinking, there results the truer energy of the
student's powers and the more natural unity of the complex elements
of his expression.--Dr. Lyman Abbott, in The Outlook.
Address: Book Dept., School of Expression, 306 Pierce Bldg., Copley
Square, Boston, Mass.
Mind and Voice. Principles underlying all phases of Vocal Training.
The psychological and physiological conditions of tone production and
scientific and artistic methods of developing them. A work of vital
importance to every one interested in improving the qualities of the
voice and in correcting slovenly speech. 456 pages. By S. S. Curry,
Litt. D. $1.50, postpaid. To teachers, $1.25, postpaid.
It is indeed a masterly and stimulating work.--Amos R. Wells,
Editor Christian World.
It is a book that will be of immense help to teachers and
preachers, and to others who are using their vocal organs
continuously. As an educational work on an important theme, the
book has a unique value.--Book News Monthly.
There is pleasure and profit in reading what he says.--Evening Post
(Chicago).
Fills a real need in the heart and library of every true teacher
and student of the development of natural vocal
expression.--Western Recorder (Louisville).
Get it and study it and you will never regret it.--Christian Union
Herald (Pittsburg).
Foundation of Expression. Fundamentals of a psychological method of
training voice, body, and mind and of teaching speaking and reading. 236
problems; 411 choice passages. A thorough and practical text-book for
school and college, and for private study. By S. S. Curry, Litt. D.
$1.25; to teachers, $1.10, postpaid.
It means the opening of a new door to me by the master of the
garden.--Frank Putnam.
Mastery of the subject and wealth of illustration are manifest in
all your treatment of the subject. Should prove a treasure to any
man who cares for effective public speaking.--Professor L. O.
Brastow, Yale.
Adds materially to the author's former contributions to this
science and art, to which he is devoting his life most
zealously.--Journal of Education.
May be read with profit by all who love literature.--Denis A.
McCarthy, Sacred Heart Review.
It gets at the heart of the subject and is the most practical and
clearest book on the important steps in expression that I have ever
read.--Edith W. Moses.
How splendid it is; it is at once practical in its simplicity and
helpfulness and inspiring. Every teacher ought to be grateful for
it.--Jane Herendeen, Teacher of Expression in Jamaica Normal
School, N. Y.
Best, most complete, and up-to-date.--Alfred Jenkins Shriver,
LL.B., Baltimore.
Public speakers and especially the young men and women in high
schools, academies, and colleges will find here one of the most
helpful and suggestive books by one of the greatest living teachers
of the subject, that was ever presented to the public.--John
Marshall Barker, Ph.D., Professor in Boston University.
Address: Book Dept., School of Expression, 306 Pierce Bldg., Copley
Square, Boston, Mass.
Browning and the Dramatic Monologue. Nature and peculiarities of
Browning's poetry. How to understand Browning. The principles involved
in rendering the monologue. An introduction to Browning, and to dramatic
platform art. By S. S. Curry, Litt. D., $1.25; to teachers, $1.10,
postpaid.
It seems to me to attack the central difficulty in understanding
and reading Robert Browning's poetry.... It opens a wide door to
the greatest poetry of the modern age.--The Rev. John R. Gow,
President of the Boston Browning Society.
A book which sheds an entirely new light on Browning and should be
read by every student of the great master; indeed, everyone who
would be well informed should read this book, which will interest
any lover of literature.--Journal of Education.
Spoken English. A method of co-ordinating impression and expression in
reading, conversation, and speaking. It contains suggestions on the
importance of observation and adequate impression, and nature study, as
a basis to adequate expression. The steps are carefully arranged for the
awakening of the imagination and dramatic instinct, right feeling, and
natural, spontaneous expression. 320 pages. By S. S. Curry, Litt. D.,
Ph.D. Price, $1.25; to teachers, $1.10, postpaid.
Every page had something that caught my attention. You certainly
have grasped the great principle of vocal expression.--Edwin
Markham.
Those who aim at excelling in public utterance and address may well
possess themselves of this work.--Journal of Education.
The specialist in reading will wish to add it to his book-shelf for
permanent reference.--Normal Instructor.
A masterly presentation of ideas and expression as applied in a
wide range of excellent selections.--The World's Chronicle.
Little Classics for Oral English. A companion to Spoken English. The
problems correspond by sections with Spoken English. The books may be
used together or separately. The problems are arranged in the form of
questions which the student can answer properly only by rightly
rendering the passages. It is a laboratory method for spoken English, to
be used by the first year students in High School or the last years of
the Grammar School. 384 pages. By S. S. Curry, Litt. D. Price, $1.25; to
teachers, $1.10, postpaid.
I am using Little Classics for Oral English in two classes and
believe it is the most satisfactory text that I have used. The
students seem to be able to get easily the principles from your
questions and problems.--Elva M. Forncrook, St. Nor. Sch.,
Kalamazoo, Mich.
A fine collection of fine things especially suited to young people.
Every teacher of reading and English in our secondary schools ought
to have the book.--Prof. Lee Emerson Bassett, Leland Stanford
University, Cal.
Address: Book Dept., School of Expression, 306 Pierce Bldg., Copley
Square, Boston, Mass.
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