Excerpt from Illustrated Phonics: A Text-Book for Schools The success of an earlier text-book of phonics leads the author to believe that this book needs no apology. The theory and methods herein described and illustrated have been used with success in many of our public schools and by public speakers and have the hearty endorsement of many prominent school teachers and officials. These methods make use of the muscles of the diaphragm and abdomen, as an aid to the production of correct sound and purity of tone, thereby overcoming throaty and imperfect articulation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.