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"Dimple-cheeked and rosy-lipped,

With his cap-brim backward tipped,
Still in fancy I can see

Little Tommy smile on me—
Little Tommy Smith.

"Little unsung Tommy Smith-
Scarce a name to rhyme it with;
Yet most tenderly to me
Something sings unceasingly-

Little Tommy Smith."

From RILEY'S "Little Tommy Smith."

A little watchfulness over ourselves will save us a great deal of watchfulness over others, and will permit the kindliest of religions to drop her inconvenient and unseemly talk of enmity and strife, cuirasses and breastplates, battles and exterminations. To produce as much happiness as we can, and to prevent as much misery, is the proper aim and end of true morality and true religion. Only give things their right direction; there is room, do but place and train them well." EPICTETUS.

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IMPASSIONED

"""Be still!'

He shouted to the kneeling priest,
'Stay, hold thy peace! Be still!
Did he not say "Be merciful ''?
Did I show mercy when

Flowed down with lives of men?
Did I show mercy when that wail
Of anguish rent the air?

Did I show mercy e'en to one

In all that black despair?

See pag

"Sir, when I heard principles laid down that plac murderers of Alton side by side with Otis and Han with Quincy and Adams, I thought those pictured lips w have broken into voice to rebuke that recreant Americar slanderer of the dead. Sir, for the sentiment he has ut on soil consecrated by the prayers of Puritans and the b of patriots the earth should have yawned and swallowed up!" See page 3

DECLAMATORY

"He would have seen his great arguments in the repl Hayne, in the debates with Calhoun, inspiring, guid commanding, strengthening. The judge in the cour citing them. The orator in the Senate is repeating th The soldier by the camp-fire is meditating them. The Un cannon is shotted with them. They are flashing from muzzle of the rifle. They are gleaming in the stroke of saber. They are heard in the roar of the artillery. T shine on the advancing banner. They mingle with shouts of victory. They conquer in the surrender of App They abide forever and forever in the returni reason of an estranged section and the returning loyalty of united people." See page 91.

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"Force compelled the signature of unwilling royalty the Magna Charta; force put life into the Declaration Independence and made effective the Emancipation Procla mation; force beat with naked hands upon the iron gatewa of the Bastile and made reprisal in one awful hour for cen turies of kingly crime; force waved the flag of revolution over Bunker Hill and marked the snows of Valley Forge with

See page 10.

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blood-stained feet; force held the broken line at Shiloh,
climbed the flame-swept hill at Chattanooga, and stormed
the clouds on Lookout heights; force marched with Sherman
to the sea, rode with Sheridan in the valley of the Shenan-
doah, and gave Grant victory at Appomattox; force saved
the Union, kept the stars in the flag, made 'niggers' men.
The time for God's force has come again."
See page 30.

PITCH

The Pitch of a sound is its place upon the musical scale. It must not be confused with loudness or with quality. Loudness depends upon the force with which the voice is sent from the larynx; quality upon the size, shape, and condition of the resonance-chambers and vocal cords; but pitch depends upon the rapidity with which the vocal cords vibrate. Therefore, although high pitch and loudness are generally associated, a sound may be "subdued" and far up on the scale or loud and well down among the lower

notes.

DEGREES OF PITCH

Although the degrees of pitch are numerous, for purposes of clearness we may divide the range in pitch of the speaking voice into five parts,-Low, Very Low, Middle, High, and Very High. These divisions are of course relative; women as a general thing speaking at a higher pitch than men; and the middle, normal, voice of one man being lower or higher than that of another. The dominant tone of the middle voice of men is on an average about D on the bass staff, while that of women is nearly an octave higher. The range of the average speaking voice is about an octave and a half. Of this the Very Low degree compasses two notes, the Low two, the Middle four, the High two, and the Very High two.

The Middle Degree of Pitch appeals primarily to the in

degree of pitch is used by far the most; hence the imp of cultivating a good middle voice. *

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The Low and the Very Low express sentiments serious, solemn, gloomy, pathetic, discouraging, des horrible, sublime, emotion intense but controlled". The High Degrees express joy, brightness, gayely, intensity, astonishment, pain, fear, emotion acute a

controlled".

Thoughtful and appreciative reading of the fol selections will afford practice in securing the different of pitch.

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Middle Pitch

What is it, Lillo?' said Romola, pulling his hair from his brow.

'Mamma Romola, what am I to be?' he said, contented that there was a prospect of talking till it v be too late to con 'Spirto gentil' any longer. "What should you like to be, Lillo?

"I should like to be something that would make great man, and very happy besides-something that w not hinder me from having a good deal of pleasure.'

That is not easy, my Lillo. It is only a poor so happiness that could ever come by caring very much al our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the hig happiness, such as goes along with being a great man having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of world as well as ourselves; and this sort of happiness of brings so much pain with it that we can only tell it fr pain by its being what we would choose before everyth else, because our souls see it is good. There are so ma things wrong and difficult in the world that no man can great he can hardly keep himself from wickedness-unl

*This suggestion may possibly be found valuable to teachers. 7 many in the classroom, in their desire to make plain, use predominan the high degree of pitch rather than the middle.

he gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful.'

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From GEORGE ELIOT'S "Romola."

Eastward of Zanesville, two or three

Miles from the town, as our stage drove in,
I on the driver's seat, and he

Pointing out this and that to me, –
On beyond us-among the rest—
A grovey slope, and a fluttering throng
Of little children, which he guessed
Was a picnic, as we caught their thin
High laughter, as we drove along,
Clearer and clearer. Then suddenly
He turned and asked, with a curious grin,
What were my views on Slavery? 'Why?'
I asked, in return, with a wary eye.”

Low and Very Low

See page 234.

'Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.

"Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

'Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

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For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

'Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

'O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.