PREFACE

HIS little book on voice is the result of

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its author's observation-first in the college and social world, and later as reader, teacher, and actress-of the crying need, in each and all of these circles, for some simple and practical instruction in the training of the speaking voice.

There are volumes of recognized authority, considerable in length and exhaustive in detail, which one who intends to use his voice professionally should master, if possible, but which it is almost impossible for the college, society, or business man or woman to study and follow, from sheer lack of time. This book offers a method of voice training which is the result of a deliberate effort to simplify and condense, for general use, the principles which are fundamental to all recognized sys