By ERNEST LEGOUVE, of the Academie Francaise.
Translated from the Ninth Edition by ABBY LANGDON
ALGER. 16mo. Cloth. 50 cents.
(_Dedication._)
TO THE SCHOLARS OF THE HIGH AND NORMAL SCHOOL.
For you this sketch was written: permit me to
dedicate it to you, in fact, to intrust it to your
care. Pupils to-day, to-morrow you will be
teachers; to-morrow, generation after generation of
youth will pass through your guardian hands. An
idea received by you must of necessity reach
thousands of minds. Help me, then, to spread abroad
the work in which you have some share, and allow me
to add to the great pleasure of having numbered you
among my hearers the still greater happiness of
calling you my assistants. E. LEGOUVE.
We commend this valuable little book to the
attention of teachers and others interested in the
instruction of the pupils of our public schools. It
treats of the "First Steps in Reading," "Learning-to
Read," "Should we read as we talk," "The Use and
Management of the Voice," "The Art of Breathing,"
"Pronunciation," "Stuttering," "Punctuation,"
"Readers and Speakers," "Reading as a Means of
Criticism," "On Reading Poetry," &c., and makes a
strong claim as to the value of reading aloud, as
being the most wholesome of gymnastics, for to
strengthen the voice is to strengthen the whole
system and develop vocal power.
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