Gontents for August, 1897. FRONTISPIECE: Mary Howe in Poses in the Mad Scene in "Lucia." The Study of Elocution as Related to Literature. By George L. Raymond, The Science of Voice-Production. By Floyd S. Muckey, M.D., CURRENT THOUGHT: 64 PAGE. 679 683 695 709 Leoncavallo's New Opera; The "Lost Art" of Perpetual Youth; " The Musical Races in Art-Development.-A Critique on the New York Convention Sketch and Portrait of Thomas C. Trueblood, Elocutionary and Musical Associations.-Officers for 1897-8, M. Helena Zachos, 715 724 727 733 739 750 764 774 778 779 INTELLECTUAL & EMOTIONAL TRAINING IN EXPRESSION. Special care taken to develop original talent under the laws of Dramatic Art. Address, Care Friends' Seminary, East 16th Street, New York City. ROBERT H. HATCH'S RECITALS. A BOOK FOR EVERY PUBLIC RECITER. Many of the recitations were written for Mr. Hatch, and many he has the exclusive right to publish. Price, 30 cents, post-paid. Edgar S. Werner, Publisher, 108 E. 16th St., N. Y. Please mention WERNER'S MAGAZINE, when you write to Advertisers. THE Columbia School of Oratory A SCHOOL OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL CULTURE FOR MEN AND WOMEN Giving instruction in: Elocution, Voice-Culture, English Literature, Bible Reading, Life Study, Personation, Dramatic Art, Analysis and Presentation of Shakespeare, Oratory, Extemporaneous Speaking, Rhetoric, Parliamentary Law, Physical Culture, Anatomy, Bodily Expression, Acoustics, Visible Speech, Psychology, Methods of Teaching. A School of Oratory that Teaches Oratory.<<<< The methods are thoroughly educational, the pupils learn to do by doing, criticism is constructive and kindly, and the central aim is to develop personal power. The writer ventures to offer this volume to the public as the result of her personal investigation, observation, and the collated wisdom of many eminent authorities. The need of it was felt in the many years of her student-life, as well as since then in her professional life, to combat the ignorance shown by the masses of otherwise well-educated women, in regard to all functions of the human body, so that in girlhood many follies are committed that render the woman's life wellnigh a burden. This work has been in preparation for six years, and all accessible works bearing on the subject have been carefully studied. The works of the most noted anatomists, physiologists. hygienists, as well as those of the most eminent authorities on the diseases of women, have been freely drawn upon, since many of them are inaccessible to the general reader; while by means of profuse illustrations the writer has endeavored to further elucidate her subject. CONTENTS: The Key to Physical Beauty-Relative Proportion of a Perfect Female Form-The Muscular System-Outdoor Exercises: Walking, Running, Rowing, Bicycling, Swimming, etc., and Gymnastics, and what they will do to Develop the Form and Restore the Health. The Maintenance of Health: A Balance of Power between Food Supply, Digestion, and Excretion-The Digestive a Vigorous Circulation and a Healthy Body-The Blood-The Circulatory and Respiratory ApparatusThe Changes in the Air Caused by Respiration-Ventilation. Dress, the Fundamental Cause of the Physical Deterioration of the American Woman-The History of Woman's Dress-The Influence of the French Court on Dress-The Corset-Hygienic Dress-Décolleté Evening Dress -Artistic Evening Dress. Work, Recreation, Rest, and Sleep, in a Rational Combination as a Preservative of Good Temper and Good Health-A Definite Occupation a Physical Necessity-Number of Hours Allotted to Brain-Work-Signs of OverworkPhysiological Necessity for Recreation-Number of Hours Required for Sleep-Health a Duty from an Ethical Point of View. tem-Varieties of Food and the Amount Necessary w Health-Alcoholic Beverages-Constipation-The Kidneys-The Skin and the Complexion-Baths-Menstruation. The Bony Skeleton, Its Uses and AbusesThe Skull and Spinal Column Viewed in Connection with their Contents, the Brain and Nervous SystemArtificial Deformities of the Head and Foot, with a Description of a Perfect Foot. The Importance of Good Chest-Development and Ventilation in Order to Obtain 77 illustrations, including full-page cuts of Hygeia, Juno, Venus de Capua, Venus de Medici, Venus de Milo, the Sleeping Ariadne, Greek Costumes, etc. The regular price of this book is $1.75, but the few remaining will be sold EDGAR S. WERNER, 108 East 16th Street, New York. Please mention WERNER'S MAGAZINE when you write to advertisers. WERNER'S MAGAZINE. EDGAR S. WERNER FOWLER MERRITT. 108 East 16th St., (East of Union Square) N. Y. PUBLISHED MONTHLY, AT $2.00 A YEAR. SINGLE NUMBERS, 25 cents. Postage to countries other than the United States and Canada, 48 cents additional. If any subscriber does not receive his paper by the 15th of the month, he may write to us and we will send a copy of that issue free; but after that date we shall not supply back numbers unless paid for them. Unless otherwise ordered, subscriptions received before June 1, will be dated from the preceding January, and back numbers sent. After June 1 subscriptions will begin with the June number, unless otherwise ordered. Accounts cannot be opened for subscriptions. Subscribers will please remít with order. Names are not entered until the full amount is received. Believing that the majority of our subscribers wish the paper regularly, our rule is to continue the Magazine until an order to discontinue is received and all arrearages are paid. Manuscript should be received by the first of the month, to insure insertion in the succeeding month's number. Articles on live and practical topics, and good, new recitations, are desired. Contributors will please put their names to their articles, and send sufficient postage for their return, if found unavailable. The Editor will be pleased to hear from those who contemplate writing special articles, or poems and stories that have vocal or elocutionary themes. Voluntary contributions, for which compensation is desired, must be marked with the price expected. DO NOT STAMMER. Edwin S. Johnston, one of Philadelphia's specialists, has probably made more remarkable cures than any living practitioner. The method employed for the permanent cure of stammering and stuttering is the fruit of a long personal effort of Mr. Johnston to overcome a severe impediment from which he had suffered forty years. The system is endorsed by Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, M. E. Church, Phila. Pa.; Hon. John Wanamaker, Phila. Pa., ex-Postmaster General U. S.; Prof. Horatio C. Wood, M. D.,LL. D., and Dr. Harrison Allen, University of Penna. Send for 60-page book to Philadelphia Institute, 1033 Spring Garden St., Phila. Pa. Edwin S. Johnston, Principal and Founder. Established 1884. AURILLA COLCORD POTÉ, Reading, Dramatic Art, Vocal and Physical Culture. CONSULTATION THURSDAYS. STUDIOS: 601-2 CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK. Complete Instruction in the Dramatic Art. NEW YORK. [Formerly Principal of the Empire Theatre Dramatic School.] Office and Studio: 1440 Broadway (Holland Building), New York City. specialty. Term begins October, ends April. Special term for Summer. Preparation for the Drawing-room. Public Performances by the Pupils a Careful Training and Please mention WERNER'S MAGAZINE when you write to Advertisers. Mme. Luisa Cappiani Voice Culture THE PARKER, 123 West 39th Street, NEW YORK. VOCAL LESSONS The Ohio Wesleyan Organized on the University plan. Course specially designed for preparation of students for Teachers of Oratory in colleges. Diplomas conferred on collegiategraduates only. Post-graduate course for the University degree of Master of Arts. Attendance last year 160. All of our graduates are filling fine positions. For special catalogue, or other information, address JAMES W. BASHFORD, Ph.D., President, or ROBERT IRVING FULTON, A M., Dean. Delaware, Ohio. HOW TO READ ALOUD A series of Graded Reading Lessons in Vocal Expression, adapted for Public School, High School, and Private Classes, by S. H. CLARK, The University of Chicago. The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Remittances for Single Copies may be made in LEMUEL B. C. JOSEPHS, DELSARTIAN, Public Reader, Lecturer, and Teacher of MRS. HARRIET WEBB... Shakespearian Reader and Teacher of Elocution and Dramatic Art. Through Correspondence Engagements made for Public and Private Readings. For the production of the speaking and singing voice. MADAME LOUISE POWELL, 251 Fifth Avenue, For circulars, terms, etc., address MRS. HARRIET WEBB, 107 W. 68th St, N. Y. FOUNDED 1880. CHARTERED 1883. Mt. Vernon Institute of Elocution and Languages, 1336 Spring Gorden St., Philadelphia, Pa. FRANCES E. PEIRCE, PRINCIPAL. Our handsome new building is now completed and with our largely increased facilities, we have opened many new departments, increased the old ones, and are able to accommodate one thousand pupils. Our school is one of the few that have steadily increased during the hard times. Send for circular. DO YOU Cause and Correction of Speech Defects, by GEORGE ANDREW LEWIS, who stammered for more than 20 Write for our 140 page book, THE ORIGIN OF STAMMERING. A practical and scientific treatise on the STAMMER years. Sent FREE with full particulars Please mention WERNER'S MAGAZINE when you write to advertisers. AMBLER SEEcution, Dramatic Art. Graduate of N. Y. School of Expression, 80 Montgomery Street, Middletown, N. Y. ERRY, EDWARD PERKINS, PUBLIC READER, BANKS, EMMA DUNNING, Medal Pupil of the Na-RUSSELL, LOUIS ARTHUR, Choral and Orchestral tional School of Oratory. All branches of Elocution, Bobolink Tones, Baby Cries. Permanent address, 18 Liberty St., Bridgeport, Conn. BRINK Ft Of Singing. New studio: in West 42nd RINKERHOFF, MME. CLARA, Voice-production Street (bet. 5th and 6th Aves.). New York. ARPENTER, MISS JENNETTE, Public Reader, and Conductor. Voice-Culture and Pianoforte. Room 815 Carnegie Music Hall, New York, or College of Music, Newark, N. J. SUTTON, MARY HAVILAND, Dramatic Reader and Impersonator. and Teacher of Elocution and Phys ical Culture. 130 West 43rd Street, New York City. ON DER HEIDE, J. F. Vocal Instruction. Principal of the School of Oratory and Expression Placing and Toning the Voice a Specialty. in Art. Boston methods. 30 Y. M. C. A., Cleveland, Ohio. YRANE, MME. OGDEN, Concert, Oratorio, and Vocal Instruction. Italian Method. Summer School at Asbury Park, N. J. Appleby Building, Room 24. Studio: 3 East 14th Street, New York City. CRANE, MISS JE., Teacher of Vocal Culture. Pu pils Prepared for Church and Concert Singing. A Special Course for Teachers of Music in the Public Schools. Apply to Crane Normal Institute of Music, Potsdam, N. Y. COURTNEY, MME. LOUISE GAGE, 805-806 Carnegie Hall, New York. Singing-Lessons. Read "Hints About My Singing-Method." MRS. ANNA RANDALL. DIEReader, Teacher, Author of Elocutionary Books. RVING, ELIZABETH MANSFIELD, Public Reader and Teacher of Elocution and Oratory. 1025 Grand Ave., Toledo, Ohio. UDLUM, MRS. MARY HOGAN, Teacher of Elocution and Physical Culture. High School, St. Louis, Mo. MAYER, MRS. ELIZABETH CHURCHILL, Vocal Instruction. Specially recommended as Singer and Teacher by Mr. William Shakespeare, of London, Eng. Hours from 12 to 1 p. m. 3 East 41st Street, New York. MILNE. MISS SAIDEE VÉRE, Elocutionist, Teacher of Reading, Vocal Culture. Physical Culture and Dramatic Art. Mondays and Thursdays, Studio, 305 Carnegie Hall, 56th Street and Seventh Avenue. Residence, 129 West 83d Street. EWCOMB, LYDIA J., Lecturer and Teacher. Permanent address: Grand Rapids, Mich. PARKER GEORGE J.. Tenor Soloist; Concert and Oratorio. Rooms 5 and 6, 666 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 36 East 23rd Street (near Madison Square), N. Y. MR. & MRS. HANNIBAL A. WILLIAMS, Summer and permanent address: Saratoga, N. Y. The Crane Normal Institute of Music UNION TEACHERS' AGENCIES of AMERICA. Rev. L. D. BASS, D.D., Manager. Pittsburg, Pa.; Toronto, Canada; New Orleans, La.; New York, N. Y.; Washington, D. C.; San Francisco, Cal.; Chicago, Ill.; St. Louis, Mo., and Denver, Colorado, There are thousands of positions to be filled within the Address all applications to UNION TEACHERS' AGENCIES, TEACHERS WANTED! Over 4,000 vacancies-several times as many vacancies as members. Must have more members. Several plans two plans give free registration; one plan GUARANTEES positions. 10 cents pays for book, containing plans and a $500.00 love story of College days. No charge to employers for recommending teachers. SOUTHERN TEACHERS' BUREAU. (Rev. Dr. O. M. Sutton, A. M., SUTTON TEACHERS' BUREAU, S. W. Cor. Main & 3d Sts., Louisville, Ky. President and Manager. 1 69-71 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Northern vacancies Chicago office, Southern vacancies Louisville office. One fee registers in both offices. 400 Choice Readings and Recitations, bound in handsome paper cover, mailed to any address, postpaid, for 35 cents in stamps. This book contains the choicest gems for Reading, and we guarantee satisfaction or will refund the money. Address J. S. OGILVIE, 71 Rose Street, New York. Please mention WERNER'S MAGAZINE when you write to advertisers. |