OR

VOCAL CULTURE.

A MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY EXERCISES FOR THE
CULTIVATION OF THE VOICE
IN ELOCUTION.

FOUNDED UPON DR. JAMES RUSH'S "PHILOSOPHY
OF THE HUMAN VOICE."

COMPILED BY

WILLIAM RUSSELL,
AUTHOR OF "LESSONS IN ENUNCIATION," ETC.

REEDITED BY

REV. FRANCIS T. RUSSELL, M. A.

FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF ORATORY AT TRINITY AND HOBART COLLEGES

BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.

New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1884.

То

JAMES E. MURDOCH, Esq.

THE EMINENT ELOCUTIONIST AND TRAGEDIAN,

AND FORMER ESTEEMED ASSOCIATE OF THE ORIGINAL COMPILER OF THIS VOLUME,

The following Manual

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE EDITOR.