This textbook provides course content in elocution with reading exercises. In the selection of articles for Reading Exercises, great care has been taken to present a variety of style and subject, to attract by interest of matter, to elevate by purity and delicacy of sentiment, and especially to furnish the mind with valuable information, and to influence the heart by sound moral and religious instruction. Part 1 contains the principles of elocution. Parts 2 and 3 contain reading lessons in prose and poetical lessons.