PART I.
NEW TOBK :

PUBLISHED BY THE INSTITUTION FOB THE IMPBOVED

INSTBUCTION OF DEAF-MUTES,
LizraeTON Atxnub, Bitwibn 67th and 66th Streets.
1894.
Press of J. J. Little & Co.
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PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL

WHOSE EXCKLLBNT C0NTRIBDTI0N8 TO THE LITER-
ATUBE OF THE SCIENCE OP VOCAL PHYSIOLOGY
BENDER THE MOST PRACTICAL AID TO ARTICULATION
TEACHERS, THIS TREATISE IS DEDICATED AS A
MARE OF THE AUTHOR'S ESTEEM AND ADMIRATION.
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PREFACE.
By far the greater number of priociples and theories
which are advocated in this little volume did not origi-
nate in my mind. I adopted them after a good deal of
thought and study and experiment Being anxious to
gain information from any source whatever, and to make
use of anything that might be beneficial to my pupils, I
have always tried to get hold of every book and periodi-
cal from which I thought I could gather knowledge that
might directly or indirectly aid me in my work of giving
speech to the deaf. I would gladly mention the names
of all those whose ideas I have made my own, and whose
suggestions I have followed in working out the system of
instruction which is described herein, but refrain from
attempting to do so, because I am afraid I might not
remember them all ; and, therefore, take this way of
expressing my grateful acknowledgments to every one
of them.
