with increase of teachers, to do the very best work that has ever been done.

During the last year, the School of Expression has nearly doubled its number of students. It is expected that the same advance will be made in respect to our summer term.

The work arranged will be most thorough. There will be twelve to fifteen hours a day from which courses may be selected, suited to every need. The number of teachers will be larger than ever before, and a greater amount of work devoted to section drill and individual lessons.

Full programme will be given in the March number.

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CONFERENCE ON EXPRESSION.

HE success of the conference on expression which met in Boston last summer inspired those present to arrange for All teachers from any part of the world, of any phase of elocutionary belief, are invited.

another.

Those who are willing to speak, or who have a desire to hear some special topic discussed, are requested to send suggestions to the chairman of the committee, Rev. Louis Ellms, Hanover, Mass.

The question-box will form a feature again this year. Two hours will be given at a better time than last summer. All questions, of every conceivable form, in relation to every kind. of difficulty, are requested. If desired, they can be forwarded to the chairman of the committee, or to the editor of this magazine, who will answer the questions. Questions will also be presented to the conference for general discussion.

The sessions will last from nine until one o'clock each day, double sessions having been found to be too taxing to the energies of the participants.

The conference will meet Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, July 6, 7, and 8, at Association Hall, 458 Boylston Street, Boston.

The programme will be printed in the June quarterly. The periodical is open to any communication or suggestions that may tend to make it a permanent success.

Wednesday afternoon, July 8, all will take the train for an excursion to Plymouth Rock, and the opening exercises of the summer term of the School of Expression.

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SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION DAY AT ATLANTA.

HE authorities of the Southern Exposition have invited the School of Expression to occupy a day in presenting the methods and reforms which were undertaken by the trustees and founders of the school. December 23d has been chosen.

Every effort is being made to present the various aspects of vocal training and the educational uses of the spoken word; to give teachers and speakers a practical insight into the fundamental principles underlying the latest methods in vocal training and vocal expression.

Mrs. Gordon, the lady who has been foremost in making a success of the Exposition, one of the foremost ladies of the South, is expected to preside.

The Dean will make an opening address at 10 A. M., upon the needs of vocal training and expression in education. He will also give, in the afternoon, a practical voice lesson. One of his lectures on art, illustrated by the stereopticon, will also be a feature of the day.

A recital will be given by Mrs. Anna Baright Curry, Professor Wellington A. Putnam, Miss Florence I. Horlbeck, Miss Fay Witte, and others, to illustrate the different phases of the vocal interpretation of literature.

These interesting exercises will be open, free, to all who enter the Fair grounds that day. The school will spare no expense to make the day a pleasure and inspiration to all true lovers of art, and to those who desire to improve the American voice, and to see more practical methods in the study of literature.

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