Affirmation. (Figs. 28, 29, 30.)

Here the action is up and down instead of outward. The arm first folds as in self-indication, but without bringing the hand quite so near to the body, while the head bows toward it. Then the head rises to the normal attitude, or is even lifted in strong affirmation, while the arm unfolds, finishing its gesture with the palm open toward the audience..

Practise this as well as the preceding with three degrees of emphasis: (1) moderate; (2) with considerable energy; (3) with head uplifted and arm extended

straight downward at the front, with the hand fully expanded. Practise also bringing the edge of the hand instead of the palm toward the audience. This is definition, or the teacher's affirmation, and is appropriate to quiet, earnest moods of the mind. Also with clinched fist. This affirmation is appropriate to anger, defiance, and the like.

The head rises, the eye seeking heaven, then returns

to the audience while the arm is lifted.

Practise this with forefinger pointing upward and with open palm. The former is intellectual, the latter more emotional, open-hearted, strong.

The hands are thrust out as if to push something away, while the whole body draws back and turns away as if shrinking from some dreaded or displeasing object.

Of course, the strength of the action will depend upon the degree of repugnance. It may vary from playful, or pretended repulsion to that caused by ex

treme fear. Remember to draw back the hips more than the shoulders.

Practise in various directions: in front, at the sides, upward, and downward, keeping the eye fixed on the object, and also turning the face away, as if unable to endure the sight.

EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE.

It is only the pure fountain that brings forth pure water. The good tree only will produce the good fruit. If the centre from which all proceeds is pure and holy, the radii of influence from it will be pure and holy also. Go forth, then, into the spheres that you occupy, the employments, the trades, the professions of social life; go forth into the high places or into the lowly places of the land; mix with the roaring cataracts of social convulsions, or mingle amid the eddys and streamlets of quiet and domestic life; whatever sphere you fill, carrying into it a holy heart, you' will radiate around you life and power, and leave behind you holy and beneficent influences.-Cumming.

Up from the meadows, rich with corn,
Clear, in the cool September morn,

The clustered spires of Frederick stand,

Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.- Whittier.

"Come back, come back, Horatius!" loud cried the fathers all.

Back, Lartius! back, Herminius! Back, ere the ruin fall!"

"The olde sea-wall (he cried) is downe;

The rising tide comes on apace,

And boats adrift in yonder towne
Go sailing uppe the market-place."

-Macaulay.

He shook as one that looks on death.
"God save you, mother!" straight he saith;
"Where is my wife, Elizabeth?"

A moment there was awful pause-
When Berkeley cried, "Cease, traitor! cease;
God's temple is the house of peace!"

The other shouted, "Nay, not so,

When God is with our righteous cause;

His holiest places then are ours!"-T. B. Read.

BRUTUS.

How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?

I think it is the weakness of mine eyes

That shapes this monstrous apparition.
It comes upon me. Art thou anything?

Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,

That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare?
Speak to me what thou art.

GHOST. Thy evil spirit, Brutus.

BRU. Why comest thou?

GHOST. To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.

BRU. Well; then I shall see thee again?

GHOST. Aye, at Philippi.

BRU. Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then. [Exit GHOST.]

Now I have taken heart, thou vanishest:

Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee.
Boy Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake!
Claudius! Shakespeare.

While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or