Chapter I: Front Matter

PRACTICE BOOK

LELAND POWERS SCHOOL

1909

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

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My gratitude to publishers who have generously permitted the reprinting of copyrighted selections, I would here publicly express. To Little, Brown & Company I am indebted for the use of the extract called "Eloquence," which is taken from a discourse by Daniel Webster; to Small, Maynard & Company for the poem "A Conservative," taken from a volume by Mrs. Gilman, entitled "In This Our World;" to the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company for the poems by Mr. Burton; and to Longmans, Green & Company for the extracts from the works of John Ruskin. The selections from Sill and Emerson are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, publishers of their works.

The quotations under the headings "Exercises for Elemental Vocal Expression" and "Exercises for Transition," with a few exceptions, are taken from "The Sixth Reader," by the late Lewis B. Monroe, and are here reprinted through the courtesy of the American Book Company.

LELAND POWERS.

INDEX

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ACROSS THE FIELDS TO ANNE, _Richard Burton_

BROOK, THE _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_

CAVALIER TUNES _Robert Browning_
I. Give a Rouse.
II. Boot and Saddle.

COLUMBUS _Joaquin Miller_

COMING OF ARTHUR, THE _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_

CONSERVATIVE, A _Charlotte Perkins Gilman_

EACH AND ALL _Ralph Waldo Emerson_

ELAINE _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_

ELOQUENCE _Daniel Webster_

EXERCISES FOR ELEMENTAL VOCAL EXPRESSION

EXERCISES FOR TRANSITION

FEZZIWIG BALL, THE _Charles Dickens_

FIVE LIVES _Edward Rowland Sill_

GREEN THINGS GROWING _Dinah Mulock Craik_

HERVÉ RIEL _Robert Browning_

IF WE HAD THE TIME _Richard Burton_

LADY OF SHALOTT, THE _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_

LAUGHING CHORUS, A

LIFE AND SONG _Sidney Lanier_

LOCHINVAR _Sir Walter Scott_

MONT BLANC BEFORE SUNRISE _S.T. Coleridge_

MY LAST DUCHESS _Robert Browning_

MY STAR _Robert Browning_

PIPPA PASSES, Extracts from _Robert Browning_
I. Day.
II. The Year's at Spring.

RHODORA, THE _Ralph Waldo Emerson_

RING AND THE BOOK, THE, Extract from _Robert Browning_

SCENE FROM DAVID COPPERFIELD, I. _Charles Dickens_

SCENE FROM DAVID COPPERFIELD, II. _Charles Dickens_

SCENE FROM KING HENRY IV--"Falstaff's Recruits" _William Shakespeare_

SCENE FROM THE SHAUGHRAUN _Boucicault_

SELF-RELIANCE _Ralph Waldo Emerson_

TALE, THE--From The Two Poets of Croisic _Robert Browning_

TRUE USE OF WEALTH, THE _John Ruskin_

TRUTH AT LAST _Edward Rowland Sill_

WORK _John Ruskin_

EXERCISES FOR ELEMENTAL VOCAL EXPRESSION.

The exercises under each chapter have _primarily_ the characteristics of that chapter, and _secondarily_ the characteristics of the other two chapters.