Delsarte System of Oratory
  1.  The Complete Work of L'Abbé Delaumosne
  2. The Complete Work of Mme. Angélique Arnaud
  3. All the Literary Remains of François Delsarte    (Given in his own words)
  4. The Lecture and Lessons Given by Mme. Marie    Géraldy (Delsarte's Daughter) in America
  5. Articles by Alfred Giraudet, Francis A. Durivage,    and Hector Berlioz
Fourth Edition
New York
Edgar S. Werner
1893
Copyright
By Edgar S. Werner
1882, 1884, 1887, 1892
Contents.
Delaumosne On Delsarte.
 Biographical Sketch
 Preface
Part First.
Voice.
 Chapter I.
    Preliminary Ideas--Criterion of the Oratorical Art.
Chapter II.
 Of The Voice.
    Organic Apparatus of the Voice--The Voice in Relation to    Compass--The Voice in Relation to Vowels--Practical Conclusions
Chapter III.
 The Voice in Relation to Intensity of Sound.
    What is Understood by Intensity of Sound--Means of Augmenting the    Timbre of the Voice--Rules for Intensity of Sound
Chapter IV.
 The Voice in Relation to Measure.
    Of Slowness and Rapidity in Oratorical Delivery--Of Respiration and    Silence--Inflections--Rules of Inflection--Special Inflections
Part Second.
Gesture.
Chapter I.
 Of Gesture in General
Chapter II.
 Definition and Division of Gesture.
    Gesture is the Direct Agent of the Heart--Gesture is the Interpreter    of Speech--Gesture is an Elliptical Language
Chapter III.
 Origin and Oratorical Value of Gesture
Chapter IV.
 The Laws of Gesture.
    The Priority of Gesture to Speech--Retroaction--Opposition of    Agents--Number of Gestures--Duration of Gesture--The Rhythm of    Gesture--Importance of the Laws of Gesture
Chapter V.
 Of Gesture in Particular.
    The Head--Movements of the head: The Normal State, The Eccentric    State, The Concentric State--Of the Eyes--Of the Eyebrows
Chapter VI.
 Of The Torso.
    The Chest--The Shoulders.
Chapter VII.
 Of The Limbs.
    The Arms--Inflections of the Forearm--Of the Elbow--Of the Wrist--Of    the Hand: The Digital Face, The Back Face, The Palmar Face--Of the    Fingers--Of the Legs.
Chapter VIII.
 Of the Semeiotic, or the Reason of Gesture.
    The Types which Characterize Gesture--Of Gesture Relative to its    Modifying Apparatus
Chapter IX.
 Of Gesture in Relation to the Figures Which Represent It.