With Portrait of Author

HARMONIC GYMNASTICS

A Complete System of Psychical, Esthetic and Physical Culture.

By GENEVIEVE STEBBINS,

Author of "The Delsarte System of
Expression," ""Society Gymnastics," &c.

THE BREATHING EXERCISES include Normal Breathing, Rhythmic Breathing, Dispersive Breathing, Yoga Breathing, The Packing Breath, Inspirational Breathing, Aspirational Breathing, Double Respiration, Therapeutic Breathing for Women, Anti-Dyspeptic Breathing.

THE RELAXATION AND ENERGIZING EXERCISES include the
Training of the Head, Trunk and Extremities.

THE HARMONIC GRACE EXERCISES include Various Poses, Spiral Move-
ments, the Salaam, and Special Directions for the Head, Hand, Torso, Arms and
Limbs.
THE PRINCIPLES OF GESTURE treat of Correspondence, Direction of
Gesture, Opposition of Movements, Priority of Gesture to the Word, Form in
Gesture, Numerical Principle of Gesture, Rhythm of Gesture, Psychological
Principle of Gesture.

THE PHYSICAL CULTURE EXERCISES include the Instep Balance, Rotating Foot, Rotating Waist, Crank Arm Motion, Rotating Head, Vibrating Leg, Waist Twist, Vibrating Arm, Head Vibration, Shaking Leg, Dervish Exercise, Angular Arm Exercise, Head Twist, Swinging Leg, Trunk Oscillation, Flying Arm, Oblique Head, Leg Stretch, Trunk Vibration, Circular Arm Motion, Head Nodding, Abdominal Tension, Side Tension, Leg Suspension, Trunk Raising, Hip Exercise, Abdominal Sway, Side Swing, General Exercise.

THE APPENDIX is an illustrated article on "Fashion in Deformity," by the eminent authority, William Henry Flower, LL.D., F. R. S.

COMMENTS.

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Boston Herald: Tells the reader how to breathe and what gymnastics to use, and shows the intimate connection between these actions and mental and spiritual states. Deserves profound consideration.

Zion's Herald: This book is the outcome of the author's latest investigations, and of many years' teaching of old and young in different walks of life. She is the greatest Delsartian in America.

The Chautauquan: A carefully prepared text-book on the Delsarte System for class-instruction and for private use.

Dr. Chas. W. Emerson: The work is original, eloquent and fascinating. The chapter on The Power of the Imagination" alone is worth more than the price of the book. God speed the book and bless its author!

Price, $1.50, postpaid.

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Musically Accompanied Recitations!

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The Reader does not Sing but recites the Piece in the Usual Way, while another Person Plays the Accompaniment on Piano or Organ, thus Lending the Power of Music to the Reader's Voice in Bringing Out the Effects of the Recitation.

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AUX ITALIENS. Poem by Owen Meredith. Music by G. Verdi. As arranged and
recited by Mr. Charles Roberts, Jr. This poem is too well known to need descrip-
tion. With this musical accompaniment it is doubly effective
THE LAST HYMN. Poem by Marianne Farningham. Music by P. Giorza. Story
of a shipwreck near the shore. A man is seen clinging on a spar, without hope of
rescue. The people hear him sing "Jesus, lover of my soul." The reader that can
sing this simple, familiar hymn will have a most powerful and pathetic piece..
THE SHADOW OF A SONG. Poem by Campbell Rae-Brown. Music by Edgar
S. Place. Story of a girl who sings to her dead, blind, twin brother whom she had
tended with marvelous affection. Her lover overhearing her sing, suspects her of
communing with a dead love and accuses her. She is so wounded by his suspicion
that she leaves him forever, saying as she goes, that she will sing the song again
just before she dies. A year afterward, the lover, who is alone and disconsolate,
hears the song, and realizes that she (who is unseen) is dying. Introduces a song.
Both the singer and the piano are invisible. This is the greatest reading of the
year, and, with proper rendering, produces wonderful effect upon an audience....
VERY DARK. Music by G. M. Rosenberg. The pathetic death of a soldier
whose last words are "It is growing very dark, mother.".

THE BENEDICTION. Poem by François Coppée. Music by Edgar S. Place.
This, as is well known, is a story of the siege of Saragossa, where the troops shot
down a lot of monks, finally shooting an old priest at the altar who was in the act
of giving the benediction. Very dramatic, and one of the chief pieces in the
repertoire of Prof. J. W. Churchill and Mr. Charles Roberts, Jr.......
THE RED FAN. Words by Grace Ada Brown; music by Nettie Arthur
Brown. Humorous account of how a lady, by fanning his cigar smoke back
into his face, squelched a pompous man......

THE UNCLE, as recited by Henry Irving. Poem by H. G. Bell. Music composed
by Sir Julius Benedict, expressly for Mr. Irving. Very dramatic story of two
brothers who loved the same woman. The unsuccessful suitor murders his brother
by locking him in a chest. Years afterward the murderer, in a fit of remorse, tells
the story to his nephew, and dies........

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THE STORY OF SOME BELLS. Music by Edgar S. Place. Story of an artisan
who, having cast a tuneful chime that was carried off in war, became disconsolate
and wandered for years through foreign lands in search of his bells. At last he
finds them, and as they play "Home, Sweet Home," he dies. Very appropriate
for young ladies...
THE STATUE SCENE FROM SHAKESPEARE'S " WINTER'S
TALE." Music arranged from Beethoven, by Edgar S. Kelley. A very fine
recitation.

COUNTRY SLEIGHING. Poem by E. C. Stedman. Charming, semi-humorous description of an old-fashioned country sleigh-ride. Light and frolicsome, with splendid opportunity for by-play..

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MUSIC ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK. Poem by C. C. Somerville. Story of Northern and Southern armies encamped on the banks of the river, so near that each can hear the other's band. When one army plays a war-tune, the other army responds with its war-tune, until, finally, one side plays "Home, Sweet Home, which so touches the other side that it joins in, and for the time being the North and the South are one. Appropriate for G. A. R. meetings, etc......

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I DREAM. Poem by Rev. Dwight Williams. The happiness and beauty of the here
after as foreshadowed in a dream. Suitable for Sunday-school and church enter
tainments, as well as for other occasions..
THE FUGITIVES. Poem by Shelley. Music by Robert Schumann. Story of
runaway lovers, who are cursed by her father, and who are exposed to a storm
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Delsarte System of Oratory,

-CONTAINING THE UNABRIDGED WORKS OF

M. l'Abbe Delaumosne and Mme. Angelique Arnaud,

(PUPILS OF DELSARTE), AND THE

LITERARY REMAINS of FRANCOIS DELSARTE,

WITH THE FAMOUS

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THIS BOOK CONTAINS ALSO: LECTURE AND LESSONS OF Mme. MARIE GÈRALDY, during her visit in America.

ARTICLE BY F. A. DURIVAGE, the first writer to bring DELSARTE to the notice of the American public.

ARTICLE BY ALFRED GIRAUDET, the celebrated French singer, who was for years a pupil of DELSARTE.

ARTICLE BY HECTOR BERLIOZ, a contemporary of DELSARTE, describing one of DELSARTE'S inventions.

MEDALLION PORTRAIT OF DELSARTE.

PORTRAIT OF Mme. GÉRALDY, DELSARTE'S DAUGHTER.

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and Recitations No. 15

Compiled by Caroline Earnest Dickenson. PRICE, 35c., IN PAPER,

CONTENTS

Ann Jane's Mother at a Classical Concert.

April Fools. Kate Masterson.

At the Concert. James Lindsay Gordon.
Automatic Woman, The. Saidee V. Milne.
Bill and Belle. Arden S. Fitch.

Birds' Convention, The. Miller Hageman.
Bishop Orders His Tomb, The. Browning.
Boy and Girl. Mary E. Bradley.
Buying a Feller. Marietta Holley.
Carmelita. Julia Mills Dunn.
Changed Her Mind.

Child and Mother. Eugene Field.
Child's Laughter, A. A. C. Swinburne.
Cosmopolitan Woman, A. S. W. Foss.
Country Courtship. W. D. Kelly.

Death of Guinevere, The. H. L. Koopman.
Demon Kittens, Thé.

Discontent. Sarah Orne Jewett.
Engaged. F. H. Curtiss.

Frog Story, A.

Give Me Rest. George Edgar Grisham.

Glen Allen's Daughter.

Graduating Essay, A. H. C. Dodge.
Grandmamma's Fan. Edith S. Tupper.
Grandma's Angel. Sydney Dayre.
Granny. James Whitcomb Riley.
Grapevine Swing, The. Samuel M. Peck.
Heads, not Hearts, are Trumps. K. Field.
Hebe.

Helping Hand, A. Ella Higginson.

Hotel in the Storm, A. Julia N. Stickney.
House of Clouds, The. E. B. Browning.
How Colonel Ashton Signed the Pledge.
K. A. Peters.

How the Gates Came Ajar. H.L.Bostwick.
Husking Song. A. W. Bellaw.

I Can't, I Won't, and I Will.

If I were a Boy Again. Edgar W. Nye.
In the Spring. Eva Wilder McGlasson.
In Trouble. Josephine Pollard.
"Kiss Me, Mamma, I Can't Sleep."
Ladye Maude. Cora Fabbri.
Land of Nod, The. Lucy M. Blinn.

Land of Nowhere, The. Ella W. Wilcox.

Last Day in District No. 6. J.M. Harriman.
Lazyland. Margaret Vandegrift.

Little Jim. George R. Sims.

Little Lizette. Katherine S. Alcorn.
Lovejoy Cow, The.

Lucky Jim.

Mammy's Story. Susan Archer Weiss.

Meeting at Night--Parting at Morning.
Robert Browning.

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Miller's Maid, The. F. E. Brooks.
Miracle of Cana, The. F. E. Brooks.
Mitten, The. A. W. Bellaw.

Most Fellows Know.

Muzzer's Chil'ren. James Otis.

My Last Duchess. Robert Browning.
New Baby, The C. M. Snyder.
Not Willin'.

October's Party. George Cooper.
Old, Old Story, The.

Old time Negro, An. Bill Arp.
Once. W. L. Lampton.

Only One Kind Word. Ella Dare.
Our Hired Girl. Frank R. Stockton.

Periton's Ride. Miller Hageman.

Piecing the Preacher's Quilt. I. Plowman.
Po' Little Jude. B. Hackley.

Queer Boy, A.

Race Prejudice.

Reason Why, The. Mary E. Bradley.
Reminding the Hen. Bessie Chandler.
Repentance.

Rhyme of Robin Puck, A. Helen G. Cone.
Robin Good-Fellow.

Seven Stages, The.

She Showed Him Stars.

She was Traveling All Alone. F. Marion.
Sign-board, The. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Simple Sign, A.

Song That Silas Sung, The. S. W. Foss.
"Späcially Jim."
"That Calf."

That Kiss of Marthy's. Eben E. Rexford.
They Sang for It.
Three Women.

Tilly Bones. Elizabeth Whitfield Bellamy.
To a Tired Mother. May Riley Smith.
Trials of the Musical Amateur. Jerome.
Trundle-bed Theology. L. G. Brown.
Trying Situation, A. Mark Twain.
Two Christmas Eves. E. Nesbit.
Two Opinions. Eugene Field.

Uncle Peter's Masterly Argument. Frank
R. Stockton.

Unsuccessful Plan, The.

Usual Way, The.

Victim to One Hundred-and-Seven Fatal
Maladies. Jerome K. Jerome.
Victoria Grey. Eugene J. Hall.

What a Boy Can Do.

What Grandma Says. George Cooper.
Yellow Roses. J. Hooker Hamersley.
Yesterday. Edith K. Percy.

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