Elizabeth S. Bearce,

Wallace House

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," AND THE SYSTEM OF
VOCAL GYMNASTICS INTRODUCED
BY MR. JAMES E. MURDOCH.

REV. FRANCIS T. RUSSELL, M. A.

FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF ORATORY AT TRINITY AND HOBART COLLEGES.

Seventy-Ninth Edition.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1896.

KD37330

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

Copyright, 1882,
BY FRANCIS T. RUSSELL.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

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

The following Manual

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THE EDITOR.