PRINCIPLES and EXERCISES, followed by a Copious Selection of Extracts in Prose and Poetry, classified and adapted for Reading and Recitation, by DAVID CHARLES BELL, Professor of Elocution, Dublin; and ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL, Inventor of Visible Speech.

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New Edition, greatly enlarged and improved. 512 pp., and an Alphabetically arranged Index. Strongly half-bound in roan, 3/6. To the New Edition has been added all the new pieces of merit that have recently appeared, thereby making it the largest and most complete book ever offered at the price. It now contains

FIVE HUNDRED OF THE CHOICEST SELECTIONS, adapted for effective Reading and Recitation, embracing, besides a great variety of Original Selections from Modern Authors, a large collection of extracts from older compilations, the merits or peculiar fitness of which, for Elocutionary exercise, have established them as favourites.

It also contains a chapter devoted to the "Theory of Elocution," with relative exercises, which will be found useful to both teachers and pupils.

"The Standard Elocutionist is strongly bound, and in every way fitted for the use of schools."-Dublin Daily Express.

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We therefore commend to the notice of our readers a new edition, greatly enlarged, of Bell's Standard Elocutionist,' which has long been accepted and held as one of the best books on the subject.North British Daily Mail.

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BELL'S LADIES' ELOCUTIONIST:

A CLASS BOOK of POETRY, chiefly intended for the use of Young Ladies, selected from the writings of eminent authors; with an Introduction on the "Principles of Elocution, by Professor DAVID C. BELL. 290 pp., with index. Cloth, 2/6.

"Of the volume intended for ladies we can speak with equal eulogium. The pieces chosen are from poets and thinkers whose triumphs we all acknowledge, but who are especially dear to the female mind.

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Gives extra space to the poetry of reflection and imagination, and avoids passages which, however excellent for declamation, are unfitted for the study of young ladies, and accordingly everything is meant to be either innocently gay, morally good, or poetically beautiful."-Glasgow Herald. "It is well adapted for ladies' schools."-Publishers' Circular.

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A SELECTION of CLASSIFIED EXTRACTS in POETRY, adapted for Recitation in Schools.

204 pp., with an Alphabetically arranged Index. Cloth, 2/

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Selected from a mass of most favourable reviews of Mr. BELL'S

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The passages chosen are from the best authors, and they express every variety of human feeling, passion, and emotion.

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volume is accurately printed in clear and legible type, and neatly bound in cloth."-Belfast News-Letter.

And, as we have said, the selections are so good that they will attract even the tyro tired of failure."-Freeman's Journal.

"The Junior Elocutionist' consists of very choice pieces in prose and verse, selected from the best literary sources--English, Irish, Scotch, and American-including a rich and varied assortment of "humorous" pieces for recitation, which is sure to be perused with exquisite relish."-Londonderry Standard."

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"Mr. DAVID C. BELL, the well-known and highly-talented Professor of the Art of Elocution, has brought out a new edition of his very popular volumes of Selections from English Prose and Poetry. The pieces are chosen with a view to their suitability as reading exercises, and for the purpose of recitation, and include a vast number of the very best things in the English language."-Nation.

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