Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1545, by William Russell, in the Clerk's Office of hite District Court of the district of Massachusetts. +742727 AT ASTO?, 15T'OX AND THE YOUNG LADIESENBLOOBMONARY READER, containing a Seldetish af klading Lessons, by ANNA U. RUSSELL, and the Rules of Elocution, adapted to Female Readers, by William Russell. Also, THE INTRODUCTION TO THE SAME, for Younger Classes. THESE works are intended to combine, in each volume, the twofold advantage of a series of Reading Lessons, selected under the special influence of feminine taste and habits, with a manual of Elocution, adapted expressly to the systematic instruction of females, in the art of reading. From Miss A. C. Hasseltine, Principal of Bradford Academy, Bradford, Ms. "I have examined the manuscript, plan, and contents of the · Young Ladies' Reader,' and am free to say, that the importance of the various Rules and Exercises in Elocution, and the fine selection of Pieces for Reading Lessons, will render it a very desirable work to be introduced into all our femalé schools. We shall not hesitate to introduce it into our academy as soon as it is published." From Mr. George B. Emerson, Instructor, Boston. "I have carefully examined the plan of the · Young Ladies' Reader;' and I like it so well - both the introductory portion and the selections -- that I say, without hesitation, I should immediately adopt it, as a reading book, in my own school, if it should be published.” From Mr. Asa Farwell, Principal of Abbot Female Academy, Andover, Ms. “The plan of the Young Ladies' Reader,' strikes me very favourably. The Selections are judiciously made ; and the Introductory Rules will be exceedingly valuable. Such a work, in schools for young ladies, will occupy a place for which there is not now, so far as my knowledge extends, any suitable textbook. The volume will be looked for with pleasure ; and, when published, we shall introduce it into our academy." From Mr. Joseph Hale Abbot, Instructor, Boston. "I have examined, with much satisfaction, the plan of the “Young Ladies' Reader,' and the selection of pieces which it contains. It appears to me to be prepared with much taste and judgment, and to be admirably adapted to the wants of a numerous class of pupils. I have long — in common, doubtless, with many others - felt the need of such a work; and I do not hesitate to express the confident opinion, that it will be extensively used.” From Rev. Hubbard Winslow, Boston. “I have examined the plan and many of the extracts for the · Young Ladies' Reader,' and have no doubt of the great merit of the work. I shall introduce it into my school. May it find its deserved success, generally!” .:: STEREOTYPED AT THE The book now offered as an aid to the education of young ladies, is designed to combine the advantages of a volume of reading lessons, selected under the special influence of feminine taste and habits, and of a manual of elocution, adapted to the instruction of females, in the art of reading. The selection of pieces has been regulated by a regard to their fitness for the exercise of reading aloud, - a test which, though inapplicable to many productions of the highest intellectual excellence, becomes indispensable, as the standard of a collection of reading lessons. A text-book of English literature, may justly contain passages of a character too abstract, or of a beauty too spiritual, for even the most skilful utterance ; but, in a reading book, the preference is necessarily given to matter adapted to the cultivation of a vivid and effective elocution. - The literary merit of the extracts imbodied in the following pages, has, however, in no instance, been overlooked; as a genial influence on taste, is one of the most desirable results of the various stages and means of education. Nor have the higher considerations of sentiment and principle, been neglected, in the compilation of materials which necessarily become elernents of thought and reflection, while repeated for the purposes of appropriate and impressive reading. The introductory rules and exercises, presented in this volume, will, it is thought, be found sufficiently extensive for the use of readers not yet advanced to the study of elocution, as a distinct branch of education. The systematic training of the voice may be pursued, - in conjunction with the use of the Reader, – on the system of exercises prescribed in a manual compiled by J. E. Murdoch and William Russell, and entitled “Orthophony, or Vocal Culture in Elocution ;” and at a later stage of progress, the rules and principles of correct reading, may be studied, to greater extent, in Russell's “ American Elocutionist” CONTENTS Page PREFACE... 16 • .. 17 18 • MANAGEMENT OF THE VOICE ........ Faults in the Mode of Utterance ..... Identity of Musical and Elocutionary Culture...... Vocal Culture applicable to Conversation .... The Music of the Female Voice.......... Faulty Utterance an Indication of mental and physical Defects, 14 Intellectual and moral Effects of Bad Reading......... ... 15 Mrs. Sigourney's Remarks on Reading...... Comparative Value of Reading and Music ........ Neglect of the proper Modes of Organic Action.... Proper Attitude for the Exercise of Reading....... Mode of Respiration required for appropriate Readin Appropriate Mode of producing Vocal Sound... Management of the Breath.......... Utterance as modified by the Glottis...... Articulation, as dependent on the minor Organs Faults in " Quality”.................. Exercises in Pure Tone.................. Exercises in “ Orotund Quality”......... Exercises in “ Aspirated” Utterance......... Exercises in “Stress”............................... 78 Page 6. Margaret Davidson ................... Washington Irring. 57 7. To My Sister Lucretia ................ Margaret Davidson. 58 8. Voices of English Birds......................... Jardine. 60 9. My Mother's Sigh ......................... Mrs. Osyrood. 10. Accomplishments .......................... Jane Taylor. 11. The Clergy man's Daughter ................ Mrs. Hojiand. 12. To a Departed Friend..................0. W. B. Peabody. 13. The Old Elm of Newbury...................H. F. Gould. 14. The Farmer...................................... non. 15. The Iron Mine of Dannamoura..................... Anon. 17. The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant ..... Couper. 19. The Instructions of Jesus ................Hannah Adams. 20. Hymn of Miriam ........................... ........ Margaret Daridson. 85 ..................... Anon. 86 24. The Ferryman's Daughter .................T. C. Grattan. 26. The Child Angel .......... 27. Lucretia Davidson.......... 28. To My Mother............... 29. The Planet Jupiter............... 30. Fate of Missolonghi .......... 36. Alpine Scenery............ 40. Autumn Scenery of England... 42. Fortitude of the Pilgrims.. 43. Chorus in the Fall of Jerusalem....... ........... Milman. 132 45. Conversation and Accomplishments ... .....G. B. Emerson. 137 48. Use of an Interjection..... 49. Death of the Princess Charlotte...... ............R. Hall. 147 55. Good Society ...............................Miss Leslie. 158 ....................... . Fitz-Green Hulleck. 161 57. The Spectator's Return to Town ..... ........... Steele. 162 58. The Rich and the Poor....................Mrs. ifterers....................................Jino ....... ......... er ............................... oman ....................... Dr. Jo .......... . .. ..... ..... ... ..... . Pago 62. Moral Philosophy .............. ......Prof. Frisbie. 179 65. Lake Leman and the Alps .. 67. Flowers the Gift of Divine Benignity ...... Mrs. Hemans. 189 68. Flowers sent Me during Illness... ....R. H. Dana. 191 ..................... Ibid. .................. ..Joanna Baillie. 219 83. Maternal Instruction ....................G. B. Emerson. 221 ......................Addison. 227 87. Morning Hymn in Paradise..... 90. Morning........................ .................................. Sinon. .................................... Jinon. 240 93. Immortality ............... 94. State of the Soul at Death ... 95. Sufferings of the Pilgrims...... .........E. Everett. 245 96. The Useful and the Ornamental ... .......... Mrs. Farrar. 247 97. Sir Kit and Lady Rackrent..............Miss Edgeworth. 98. The Southern Cross.........................Dr. Bacon. 252 99. Baden.............. .......................... Anon. 254 ..........Mrs. H. B. Stowe. 256 101. Influence of Christianity on Woman.............Muzzey. 258 102. The Aurora Borealis............................. Barry. 260 103. The Two Voices.......................... Mrs. Hemans. 262 104. The Ettrick and the Yarrow ...................... Anon. 263 ........... Miss Sedgwick. 269 107. Light Conversation with a Heavy Man............. Anon. 271 109. The Blind ............................... Sydney Smith. 275 110. The Blind Man's Lay....................Mrs. Whitman. 112. A Tongue in every Leaf......................C. Bovoles. 281 113. Reading of the Bible ..........................J. Abbott. 282 |