poetry. Contemplating sublime things, events or deeds, we feel lifted into a sympathetic, though unconscious identification with a whole race, or with the highest ideal of man or even the highest possibilities of the whole universe and of the infinite Source of our life and love. All forms of poetry are necessary and exalted, but we should not neglect the highest, as too frequently we do. This little book has endeavored to awaken you to the importance of your own voice, and to show you how to think, how to control or increase your attention when talking, speaking, reading or reciting. You have learned that right use of the voice and body are developed by right actions of thought and feeling. You have also, I trust, learned to observe better the great world around you. You can receive deeper impressions from thinking, and from experiences, and can enter more enjoyably into your relations with your fellow-men. Thus, you can conceive vivid mental pictures, can think and act while standing upon your feet, can set all your powers to work in unity and let them express themselves in harmony. Deeper than this, our endeavor has been to introduce you to your true self; to show you that literature and poetry are embodiments of life, the expression of human experience. You have found the fact that the poems and stories and art of the voice, mirror you to yourself and awaken your highest faculties and powers to their true activity. "Education," said Carlyle," is learning the use of tools." It is important for each of us as early as we can to learn the use of a hammer, a saw, a chisel, and every means given us of accomplishing an end, but we should remember that the first of all tools, that which is most immediately connected with our thinking and our feeling, which can express our finest imaginative and creative energies, is our own voice, that agent which is most neglected, most carelessly used. who will get control of his voice will find a key that will lead him to realize the experiences of his race as embodied in literature; it will help in the awakening of his faculties and powers, it will lead him to the discovery of the co-ordinate relation of impression and expression. INDEX Abbey, Henry, What do we plant? 14. Alcott, Louisa M., First Robin, 13. Ancient Cumulative Story, A Kid, 152. Articulation, Exts. for, 55-91. Ballad of Sir John Franklin, Boker, 229. Be Strong, 142. Be to Others Kind and True, 258. Better than Grandeur, Smart, 68. Birdie with Yellow Bill, Stevenson, 47. Blow Loud for Blossoms, Dodge, 205. Bluebird, Rexford, 267. Boker, George Henry, Ballad of Sir John Bonar, Horatio, Be True, 170. Boston Boys, Perry, 51. Bourdillon, F. W., Summit of Snowdon, 215. Brook, The, Thompson, 241. Brooks, C. T., Our Native Land, 88. Brown, T. E., Royal Visitor, 226. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, In the Browning, Robert, Year's at the Spring, Brün, Frederike, Ext., Chamouni, 239. Captive Maid, Bible, 193. Carman, Bliss, Joys of the Road, 113. Chandler, Bessie, The Hen, 191. Chestnut Burr, Hamilton, 199. Childress, W. L., Beautiful World, 28. Clark, Mrs. R. E., And Then-What? 285. Cleon and I, Mackay, 253. Cocke, Zitella, What Wind Said, 215. Come, Cheer Up! McCarthy, 58. Come unto these yellow sands, Sh., 69. Cunningham, Allan, Ext., Morning, 58. Dabley, G., Robin's Cross, 208. Do not Look for Wrong, Cary, 129. Dole, Nathan Haskell, Native Birds, 260. Eliot, George, Ext., Choir Invisible, 102. 79; Ext., For Flowers that Bloom, 122; Ext., Bumble Bee, 177; Ext., Wood- Emphasis, Exts. for, 149-160. Far in the Woods, Thomas, 46. Fawcett, Edgar, Ext., Here is a Lesson, Fernald, Hannah G., When Mary Reads, Field, Michael, The Dancers, 71. Fitzgerald, Edward, The Welcome, 300. Fletcher, John Ext., Man his own Star, 96. For Flowers that Bloom, Ext., Emerson, For Want of a Nail, 149. Foss, Sam Walter, Ext., On Fear, 270. Galloping, Galloping in, Woolson, 258. Gem, A, 249. Gem of the Ocean, Shaw, 87. Gentleman, A, 263. Giant, The, Mackay, 54. Gilder, Richard Watson, Midsummer Song, 80; Ext., Nature as an Army, 98. Goodale, Dora Read, Ext., High and Low, 180. Gossips, Clinton Scollard, 45. Grasshopper and Cricket, Keats, 266. Hale, Edward Everett, Look Up, Not Hamilton, Christine H., Chestnut Burr, Happy World, Rands, 101. Hark to the Wind, Ext., 55. Havergal, Frances Ridley, That's Not the Hayne, Wm. H., Band of Bluebirds, 218. Hemans, Felicia, Ext., Oh, Blest art Hickey, Emily H., Sea Story, 309. Hilliard, John N., Vagabond Song, 57. Hogg, James, Billy and Me, 24. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Ext., Katy-did, Hood, Thomas, Youth and Age, 298. How Thrushes Crossed Sea, McCook, Howe, Julia Ward, Battle Hymn, 262. Howells, William Dean, Song the Oriole Humming Bird, Tabb, 222. Hunter, Eleanor, Accident in High Life, 177. Hurrah for the Flag, Ext., 55. Hymns of the Marshes, Ext., Lanier, 116. I sell you the Key, Ext., 155. Imagination, Exts., 175-186; 199-202. In the Rain, Bensel, 181. Inchcape Rock, Southey, 236. Inflexion, Exts., Direction, 129-135; Length, 136–143. Ingelow, Jean, Ext., Divided, 88. Jack in the Pulpit, Smith, 166. Jackson, Helen Hunt, September, 39; Jelliffe, Helena Leeming, Clovers, 112. Joy of the Hills, Markham, 65. Katy-did, Ext., Holmes, 131. Keeler, Charles A., Child's Book, 22; Kellogg, E., Ext., If ye are beasts, 140. King and Gooseherd, 102. Kinney, Coates, When Showers hover, Knights and King, Watson, 143. Lanier, Sidney, Ext., Hymn of Marshes, 116. Larcom, Lucy, March, 40. Laughter, Exts., for, 70-77. Lear, Edward, Duck and Kangaroo, 286. Legend Beautiful, Longfellow, 202. Lewis, J. M., A Boy's Whistle, 63. Little Postboy, Taylor, 288. 202; Ext., Flower-de-luce, 206; Wreck Look Up and not Down, Hale, 135. Lyly, John, Song of Fairies, 199. M'Alpine, R. W., Two Surprises, 275. McCarthy, Denis A., Come, Cheer up! Macdonald, George, What would you Mahoney, Francis, O the Bells of Shan- Man is his own Star, Fletcher, 96. Markham, Edwin, Joy of the Hills, 65; An Old Road, 75; A Prayer, 126; Ext., Marzials, Theophile, Twickenham Ferry, 80. Mellowness of Tone, Contrasts for, 206, Merrily swinging, Ext., Bryant, 62. Milton, John, Ext., Sweet Bird, 180. Modulations of Voice, Exts. for, 269-270. Mother Earth is sound asleep, 188. Mulock, Dinah M., Three Companions, National Flag, Sumner, 65. Nature in Tune, Ext., Paine, 23. Nesbit, E., Song of Poppy Seed, 224. Newbolt, Henry, Fighting Téméraire, 91. Night, Approach of, Urmy, 39. Nightingale, Florence, Story of, 251. Now the Sun is Sínking, 200. October, Ext., Jackson, 126. O pleasantly the Harvest Moon, Whit- O the Bells of Shandon, Mahoney, 68. Old William the Goat, 73. Our Friend in the Garden, Ewing, 148. Over the Round Earth (School Bell), 218. 23. Perry, Nora, Boston Boys, 51; Way to Peter Pan, Barrie, 185. Pewee, The, Trowbridge, 41. Pitch, Change of, Exts. for, 117–122. Pope, Alexander, Ext., God in Universe, Poppy Seed, Song of, Nesbit, 224. Prescott, Mary N., The Brook, 44. 121. Pussy-Cat Bird, Clinton Scollard, 19. Rain, Deland, 76. Rainbow, Ext., Rossetti, 181. Rands, Wm. Brighty, Happy World, 101; The World, 171. Reason Why, Cooper, 196. Reminding the Hen, Chandler, 191. Rich, Helen Hinsdale, Somewhere, 141. Ring Out the Old, 163. River, Song of, Ryan, 219. Robin, The, Alma-Tadema, 107. Robin, The, Dickinson, 175. Robin, The First, Alcott, 13. Robin's Cross, Dabley, 208. Rose to the Living, Waterman, 269. Royal Visitor, Brown, 226. Ruskin, John, Whoever you are, be Ryan, Abram J., Song of the River, 219. Sailor of Seas, Ext., Foss, 270. Scollard, Clinton, Pussy-Cat Bird, 19; Sea Story, Hickey, 309. Setoun, Gabriel, Wind's Song, 191. Shaw, David T., Gem of the Ocean, 87. Sill, Edward R., Ext., Opportunity, 254. Sir Lark and King Sun, Macdonald, 189. Smart, Alexander, Better than Grand- Smith, Clara, Jack in the Pulpit, 166. Snowdrop, The, Mackay, 201. Song the Oriole Sings, Howells, 30. Spring, Weymouth, 17. Spring on Boston Common, Warman, 298. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, Going a- Stevenson, Robert Louis, Travel, 26; Story of New Dress, Beckwith, 154. Summit of Snowdon, Bourdillon, 215. Sweet and low, Tennyson, 256. Humming Bird, 222; The Stranger, There rolls the deep, 216; Ext., Charge 256. Thackeray, Wm. M., Ext., Storm, 208. Thomas, Edith M., Vesper Sparrow, 29; Thompson, Maurice, The Brook, 241. Tiger, Brahman, and Jackal, Steel, 233. Transitions, Examples of, 250. Tree and the Reed, Fable, 100. Trench, Richard C., Content and Dis- Trifles, Colesworthy, 99. Trowbridge, John Townsend, The Pewee, Vacation-Time, Scollard, 94. Vagabond Song, Ext., Hilliard, 57. Van Dyke, Henry, Exts., Angler's Wish, Veery, The, Van Dyke, 297. Voice, Exts., 55-65; Ease of, 59-66; Voice of Spring, Howitt, 85. Warman, Cy, Spring on Boston Common, Wasson, David A., Joy Month, 69. Watson, William, Knights and King, 143. Westwood, Thomas, Mine Host of "The Weymouth, Blanche, Spring, 17. Who has seen the Wind? Rossetti, 15. Whoever you are, be noble, Ruskin, 142. Wild Roses and Snow, Bell, 11. Wilkins, Mary E., Katy-did-Katy- Wind, The, Landon, 178. Wisdom's Ways, Ext., 172. Woolson, Constance F., Galloping in, 258. World, The, Rands, 171. Wreck of Hesperus, Longfellow, 244. Yo ho! past hedges, Dickens, 67. |