VOCAL GYMNASTICS. IN NTRODUCTORY to the general exercises in Calisthenics and Gymnastics, and as an indispensable accompaniment, in order to insure strength, tone, purity, and flexibility to the voice, and as conducive to general health,the instructor will make it an imperative school duty for the student to acquire a thorough and practical knowledge of VOCAL GYMNASTICS. While a combination of Vocal Exercises with Calisthenics and Gymnastics is valuable to all classes and conditions of men, it is absolutely indispensable in the early training of public singers, readers, and orators. The full recognition of this fact by DEMOSTHENES, in his youth, gave him the command of that admirable and masterly force of masculine eloquence, which, as it overpowered all who heard it, can not, at this day, be read without emotion. COLTON says of him: "His studies, though embracing a liberal and wide range of letters, philosophy, and science, are not confined to the academy or the public grove. We see him daily ascending the Acropolis, and panting for breath as he gains the summit. Again he is seen laboriously climbing Olympus, the Hymettus, and every eminence where genius or the muses have breathed their inspiration. "His object, which he pursues with an ardor that never flags, and a diligence that never tires, is twofold, viz.: to |