Excerpt from The American Elocutionist: Comprising "Lessons in Enunciation," "Exercises in Elocution," And "Rudiments of Gesture"; With a Selection of New Pieces for Practice in Reading and Declamation; And Engraved Illustrations in Attitude and Action A' third department of elocution, embraces the con sideration of tone, as adapted to the utterance of pas sion, or the strongest forms of emotion, and is designated by the technical name of Modulation. 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.