Just as the reading of beautiful and exalted thoughts will impart these same qualities to your character, so the reading of daring and courageous deeds will develop in you a high degree of valor. It is well to bear in mind that

courage means something more than mere self-confidence. It means the spirit to do and dare. It is a positive virtue, implying action. You are recommended to read frequently noble and heroic passages, both of prose and poetry, and to seek to make their spirit animate your own daily life. True courage manifests itself unmistakably in voice and manner, and should be resolutely cultivated by every student who aspires to eminence.

EXAMPLES FOR PRACTISE

1. Press bravely on! and reach the goal,
And gain the prize, and wear the crown!
Faint not! for to the stedfast soul
Come wealth, and honor, and renown.
To thine own self be true, and keep

Thy mind from sloth, thy heart from soil;
Press on! and thou shalt surely reap
A heavenly harvest for thy toil.

"Press On."

PARK BENJAMIN.

2. Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

"Julius Caesar."

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

3. As from the power of sacred lays
The spheres began to move,
And sung the great Creator's praise
To all the blest above;

So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,

The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky.

"Song for Saint Cecilia's Day."

4. Stand! the ground's your own, my
Will ye give it up to slaves?
Will ye look for greener graves?

Hope ye mercy still?

What's the mercy despots feel?
Hear it in that battle peal!

Read it on yon bristling steel!
Ask it, ye who will.

Fear ye foes who kill for hire?
Will ye to your homes retire?
Look behind you! they're afire!
And before you, see

Who have done it! From the vale
On they come! and will ye quail?
Leaden rain and iron kail

Let their welcome be!

In the God of battles trust!
Die we may-and die we must;
But, oh, where can dust to dust

Be consigned so well,

JOHN DRYDEN.

As where heaven its dews shall shed

On the martyred patriot's bed,

And the rocks shall raise their head,

Of his deeds to tell?

"Warren's Address."

braves

JOHN PIERPONT.

5. At eve they all assembled, then care and doubt were fled; With jovial laugh they feasted, the board was nobly spread. The elder of the village rose up, his glass in hand,

And cried, "We drink the downfall of an accurst land!

"The night is growing darker, ere one more day is flown,
Bregenz, our foeman's stronghold-Bregenz shall be our own!"
The women shrank in terror (yet pride, too, had her part),
But one poor Tyrol maiden felt death within her heart.

Nothing she heard around her (tho shouts rang forth again); Gone were the green Swiss valleys, the pasture and the plain; Before her eyes one vision, and in her heart one cry,

That said, "Go forth, save Bregenz; and then, if need be, die!"

With trembling haste and breathless, with noiseless step she sped;

Horses and weary cattle were standing in the shed;

She loosed the strong white charger that fed from out her hand, She mounted, and she turned his head toward her native land.

Out-out into the darkness-faster, and still more fast!
The smooth grass flies behind her, the chestnut wood is passed;
She looks up; the clouds are heavy; why is her steed so slow?
Scarcely the wind beside them can pass them as they go.

"Legend of Bregenz."

ADELAIDE PROCTER.

TWENTIETH LESSON

PART 1. DRILL

1. Physical Culture. Combine various movements of the arms and hands, first to sides, then to front and above head, slowly and rapidly. Alternate the tensing and relaxing of the muscles.

2. Deep Breathing. Read in a distinct, loud whisper five lines of prose, with the throat easily open, and with all the expression possible. Do not use any voice in this exercise, but let the enunciation be clear, deliberate, and powerful enough to be heard at a considerable distance.

3. Voice Exercise. Sing oo-oh-ah, beginning very softly, changing almost imperceptibly from one tone to the other, and gradually increasing the volume. Sustained singing tones are valuable to the speaker in securing command of voice, while they also improve the ear for musical quality.

4. Articulation. Repeat the following, slowly at first, then increase until they can be said with great rapidity:

The bleak breeze blighted the bright broom blossoms.
Two toads totally tired tried to trot to Tedbury.

Susan shineth shoes and socks; socks and shoes shines Susan. She ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for shoes and socks shock Susan.

A haddock, a haddock, a black-spotted haddock; a black spot on the black back of a black-spotted haddock.

Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and an oyster. Did Oliver Oglethorp ogle an owl and an oyster? If Oliver Oglethorp ogled an owl and an oyster, where are the owl and the oyster Oliver Oglethorp ogled?