My attention was called to this chapter, many years ago, as affording
good illustrations of the slighting of speech, by Mr. J. W. Taverner,
one of the best teachers of elocution I have ever known. His daughter,
Mrs. F. Taverner Graham, has embodied much of his instructions in her
valuable text-book, entitled 'Reasonable Elocution,' originally
published by A. S. Barnes & Co., in 1874. It is now published by the
American Book Company.