A late number of the World, published in the city of brotherly love, contains a very commendatory notice of the eminent ability and success which attend the labours of this learned and indefatigable practitioner, in an important branch of science, to the investigation of which his whole life has been devoted. Knowing well the history of this gentleman, and having once enjoyed the honour of a personal acquaintance, we do not hesitate to recommend his school as possessing the highest claims to public confidence.

Extract from the Lyceum Report, published in the World, Philadelphia, June 19, 1839.

At 4 o'clock the meeting was called to order, and a lecture delivered on Elocution, by Dr. Comstock, and an interesting exhibition by his class, several of whom had been inveterate stammerers; one in particular, a married gentleman from the east, (who said he had to do his courting by signs,) spoke so well, after only six weeks' instruction, as to prove Dr. C.'s teaching completely effectual.

Half-past 5 o'clock, the company, in fine health and spirits, adjourned.
G. W. WOOLLEY, Secretary, pro. tem.

From the United States Gazette, June 29, 1839.

Sometime since, Dr. Comstock called on us with a person from Vermont, who had applied to him to be cured of stammering; he certainly needed help. Yesterday, the Doctor and his patient called on us again; the latter talked and read as fluently as any person we ever saw. The person to whom we refer, mentioned that he should now go home, and talk with a near relation, to whom he had never spoken, as she was rather deaf, and he had stammered so abominably as to be wholly unable to make her comprehend him.

From the Village Record, West Chester, Penn., September 10, 1839.

STAMMERING AND ELOCUTION.

From numerous testimonials of the success of DR. COMSTOCK, of Philadelphia, in improving the voice, particularly of Stammerers, we sometime since selected the following from a Philadelphia paper, for presentation to our readers. To those afflicted with an impediment of the speech, all discoveries, or efficient modes for amending the vocal organs, must be matter of peculiar interest. We have repeatedly visited the institution of Dr. C., and have seen numerous instances of improvement no less striking than the one referred to below. Dr. C. is unremitting in his attention to his pupils; exact in his exposition of the principles of elocution; and affords to his pupils a wide range for practice. As a teacher, he commands the respect of his pupils, while his gentlemanly deportment towards them is sure to win their permanent esteem. His office is at No. 100 Arch Street, Philadelphia.

"MR. CHARLES R. READ, from Vermont, called upon us, and read as fluently as any one. Eight weeks since we conversed with the same gentleman, and he could not articulate a sentence without stammering badly. He had been afflicted from his infancy. His mother stammered, and he has a sister who is also subject to the same infirmity. Mr. Read tells us he intends to send her to the care of Dr. Comstock, who has been so successful in his own case. We look upon it as doing stammerers a kindness, by constantly keeping them advised of such important facts."—Saturday Courier.

From the Philadelphia Gazette, October 5, 1839.

VOCAL GYMNASTICS.

We attended an exhibition of DR. COMSTOCK's class of stammerers last evening, at the Temperance Hall, N. L., and were much pleased with the exercises. We believe that Dr. C.'s system is well calculated to accomplish the very desirable relief so much needed by those afflicted with a hesitancy of speech. One individual, who had been under tuition but nine days, gave ample testimony of the efficiency of the system.

From the Pennsylvania Inquirer, Philadelphia, Nov. 22, 1839.

A STAMMERER CURED.

We were called upon yesterday by a gentleman of Bradford county, Pa., thirty-seven years of age, who, until within a month, had been an inveterate stammerer from childhood. A few weeks since, however, he was induced to place himself under the care of Doctor Comstock, of this city, who speedily effected a perfect cure. The gentleman called upon us to illustrate the excellence of the system, in his own case; and, also, with the object of making some public acknowledgment of the great and important benefit that had been conferred. He spoke with ease and fluency, and recited one or two passages of poetry, with taste and discrimination. Those of our citizens, however, who desire the most satisfactory evidence of the effects of this system, are invited to visit the Musical Fund Hall, on Monday evening next, when Dr. Comstock and his class of stammerers will give a variety of exercises and recitations.

From the Public Ledger, November 25, 1839.

Dr. Comstock's exhibition of Vocal Gymnastics takes place at the Musical Fund Hall, this evening, November 25, at half-past seven o'clock.-It gives us pleasure to recommend the Doctor's system of instruction, which, after cool examination, we believe to be excellent and unrivalled. The performances of his pupils, who were formerly stammerers, are truly astonishing.— Let every one judge for himself. We were pleased to see his former exhibition, at Temperance Hall, attended by a crowd of ladies and gentlemen.

From the North American, Philadelphia, March 19, 1840.

Dr. COMSTOCK left with us yesterday for exhibition, one of his charts, representing the mouth in every form and position which it seems to be enabled to assume in the enunciation of sounds. Attached to it are scales for the modulation of the voice, which are of great service to the student. The suc cess which has attended Dr. Comstock's instructions, has been of the most striking character.

From the Philadelphia Gazette, March 21, 1840.

Dr. COMSTOCK, elocutionist of this city, has published a large chart, mounted on rollers and varnished, entitled "A Table of the Elements of the English Language." This table condenses, as it were, the instruction of a half years' study, in the useful and requisite art of elocution. It should be hung up in the library of every orator, or every one who would be an orator, whether of the Pulpit or the Bar. If one is naturally an orator, it will assist in developing those powers; if he is not, an assiduous study of the chart will make him one. Pebbles helped DEMOSTHENES, until the wide round world was vocal with his name; and why should not a map of mounted eloquence do the same, to some one in the nineteenth century?

From the Pennsylvanian, March 24, 1840.

ELOCUTION.-Dr. Comstock, of this city, has published a large chart mounted upon rollers, entitled "A Table of the Elements of the English Language." This Table gives, in a condensed form, and as it were, at a single view, the principles upon which Dr. Comstock's system of instruction in elocution is founded, and as he is eminently successful in making good speakers, and in curing defects in articulation, the chart will doubtless be found very serviceable both to his pupils and to others.

From the Inquirer, Philadelphia, March 30, 1840.

Dr. COMSTOCK'S TABLE.-Dr. Andrew Comstock, of this city, has published a Table of the Elements of the English Language, which appears to us admirably suited to facilitate boys in their exercises of reading and improvement of gesticulation. For stammerers, and those affected with impediments of speech, it possesses great merit. Indeed, the chart is particularly calcu lated for schools, and embodies, in a single sheet, an entire system, very simple in its operation, and the result of years of labour. Dr. Comstock has deservedly acquired much reputation, in Philadelphia, as a successful teacher in the particular branch to which he devotes his attention.

From the United States Gazette, Philadelphia, April 15, 1840. Dr. COMSTOCK has issued a large sheet, containing the Elements of the English Language, with illustrations of the mode of uttering simple and com. pound sounds, figures exemplifying the gestures for certain recitations, and mots or notes for the pitch and government of the voice in reading; the latter in accordance with Dr. Rush's system of the human voice.

Dr. Comstock has been eminently successful as a teacher of elocution, because he teaches radically; and, as a curer of stuttering, we believe Dr. C. has never been excelled.

From the World, Philadelphia, March 20, 1839.

DR. COMSTOCK.-We have received from the author a small pamphlet, containing a Lecture on Elocution, with remarks on stammering, delivered before the American Lyceum in this city, on the 6th of May, 1837, by Dr. Comstock. He is well known in this city, as remarkably successful in the cure of all defects in speech, and also for teaching elocution upon philosophical principles. His school contains pupils from various and distant parts of the country, resorting to him for the cure of stammering and other vocal defects. He has published a work on Practical Elocution, the perusal of which will show that his lessons are important to others besides those afflicted with stammering; for all public speakers, whether lawyers, preachers or politicians, will derive advantages from observing his rules. The voice, like any other part of the system connected with voluntary muscular action, is susceptible of cultivation. It is regulated by a very complicated system of muscles, and must therefore be more or less under command, in proportion to the control of the individual over these muscles. Why are the muscles of a blacksmith's striking arm larger than those of his holding arm? Because they are more exercised. Why have porters, stage drivers, and those whose legs are most exercised, larger femoral and crural muscles, than people of sedentary habits? For the same reason. Then if one set of muscles improved by cultivation, so may be another; and therefore, as the voice is regulated by muscular action, it must necessarily be improved by proper exercise.

This theory, which, as every anatomist knows, is founded on fact, explains the whole system of stammering and other vocal defects. They proceed from paralysis, weakness, or other causes, producing want of control over the vocal muscles. Such defects in the leg or arm, produce lameness in these limbs. Similar defects or infirmities in the vocal muscles, must produce lameness of the voice. This point established, the indication of cure is obvious. It consists in restoring activity to the vocal muscles by exercise, by cultivation. Singers never stammer, and stammering is often cured by singing. Why? Because singing gives active exercise to the vocal muscles. But it will not always cure stammering, because the defect may be in certain muscles which singing cannot reach, or reach with sufficient force. To supply the deficiency, we need the professor of elocution, who understands the voice anatomically, physiologically, and pathologically, or in other words, who understands the structure, actions, and diseases of the parts of the human system subservient to the voice. Dr. Comstock has particularly studied this subject, and his success as a practitioner proves that he has studied it faithfully.

I most cheerfully endorse the preceding certificates relative to Dr. Comstock's success in removing impediments of speech. Having spent several weeks in his Gymnasium, for the purpose of improving my voice, and of removing an impediment to which I had always been more or less subject, I am able to speak both from observation and experience. I consider his system of vocal gymnastics eminently fitted to accomplish the end designed: viz. to bring the organs of speech, by a thorough course of drilling, entirely under the control of volition. True it is, that much energy and perseverance, as well as time and patience, are necessary on the part of the afflicted in order to be entirely relieved. But I am confident that where there is no mal-formation of the vocal organs, an entire cure may be effected. F. W. FISK.

Philadelphia, April 27th, 1840.

From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier, April 3, 1841.

CURE OF STAMMERING.

Two young gentlemen called in our sanctum the other morning, and we had a pleasant conversation with them on the extraordinary benefit they had derived from having been a few weeks in the Vocal Gymnasium of Dr. Comstock. One of them, John Scribner, jr., is from Poplin, N. H. He told us, that fourteen weeks ago he could not converse at all without stammering in the pronunciation of almost every word. He conversed with us the morning we saw him, as fluently as Daniel Webster or Mr. Forsyth could; and we should say his friends will be delighted to hold converse with him on his return to the salubrious atmosphere of the "Granite State." The other young gentleman is Mr. William H. Cornell, of Clinton, New York. He is eighteen years old, and had been a stammerer all his life, until Dr. Comstock had the gratification of receiving him under his discipline of the vocal powers. has been there but four weeks, and conversed with us with very little impediment of speech; and by the first of May, when he proposes to return to the beautiful region of Dutchess county, he will be able to descant upon the sweets of the "buds and the flowers" with as much buoyancy of speech as the most lovely young damsel around his romantic home. We are happy in stating such cases, for the encouragement of others in distant portions of the country, who may be labouring under the painful difficulties which impediments of speech impose.

From the National Gazette, Philadelphia, Nov. 17, 1841.

A STAMMERER CURED.

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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10, 1841. Messrs. EDITORS-For nearly twenty years I was an inveterate stammerer. The habit was contracted when I was four years old, in consequence of the severe treatment of a schoolmaster. Being anxious to have a cure effected, if possible, but almost despairing, I placed myself, six weeks ago, under the care of Dr. Andrew Comstock of this city, and the result has been a most happy one. Since the third day after I entered his Vocal Gymnasium, I have been able to converse with friends and strangers, without any impediment whatever. I unhesitatingly recommend all who stammer to make a trial of Dr. C.'s mode of treatment. It is founded on philosophical principles, and I feel confident, if persevered in, will always produce the same beneficial results as my own case. I shall reside, during the winter, at No. 200 Arch Street, where I shall be happy to receive a visit from any one who may desire farther information on the subject.

Respectfully,

LEVI S. YATES, of Williamston, N. C., Student of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier, July 21, 1838.

STAMMERERS.

We notice as an interesting fact, that C. H. J. Pigman, Esq., (a young gentleman who was recently in our office, while under the care of Dr. Comstock, for stammering,) delivered the oration at Cumberland, Md., on the 4th instant. It was a clear and distinct performance, and was well received by a large auditory. A copy in print has been received by us. The Civilian of that place remarks, that the enunciation of Mr. Pigman is so clear, that if it had not previously been known that he had laboured severely under an impediment, none who hear him speak would be aware that he had ever been troubled with such a difficulty. Mr. Pigman and his friends (who are highly respectable), unite in bestowing great credit upon the scientific skill of Dr. Comstock. We think we do unfortunate stammerers a kindness by commending this gentleman to their consideration.