By S. S. Curry, Ph.D., Litt.D., President of the School of Expression, Boston. With an Introduction by Professor Francis G. Peabody, D.D., of Harvard University. $1.50 net.

There is nothing formal nor forced, nothing of the letter that killeth, and killeth never so surely as in elocution. With this book a man can prepare himself both for writing his sermon and preaching it. The ample index gives an open door into many fresh interpretations of Scripture and to the expression of them. It is the most original and stimulating book on the conduct of public worship we have seen. May it bring in a new time in the ministry of the world. CRITICAL REVIEW, London.

Dr. Curry has an ample equipment for his difficult task. It is certainly a work that needed to be done. The book cannot fail to improve the reading of Scripture by all who study it, and we wish for it a wide circulation and assiduous study. — THE EXAMINER, London.

A cultured and erudite treatise upon a matter too often left to teachers of mere physical accomplishments. It deserves the attention of everyone interested

In its subject.THE SCOTSMAN, Edinburgh.

The fruits of long years of study and teaching are garnered in this book. It is such teaching as this, which develops from within and is not imposed from without, which our students and preachers need. - THE CONGREGATIONALIST, Boston.

A most timely volume, which, indeed, can scarcely be said to have a predecessor. THE CHURCHMAN, New York.

No one could be better fitted than Dr. Curry to have written such a book, which fills a new place altogether in the literature of comment and criticism. INTER-OCEAN, Chicago.

Full of suggestion. By far the most helpful work with which we are acquainted. THE WATCHMAN, Boston.

Practically without precedent either in spirit or method. Dr. Curry's suggestions are so clear, definite, and detailed that they could not fail to be helpful to one who follows him in distinguishing religiously between expression as a means and as an end. -THE CHRISTIAN REGISTER.

Dr. Curry is the first to prepare a text-book on this subject; but he has prepared a good one.- INDEPENDENT, New York.

It is a book which the young minister would do well to get by heart.TRIBUNE, Chicago, Ill.

A book that we would introduce into every theological seminary and into every conference course in the country. . . . The work of a master in his sphere. METHODIST PROTESTANT, Baltimore.

Everyone that leads a meeting or that would get the most out of his private reading of the Bible will gain very many helpful suggestions in this book. It throws new light on many a passage. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR WORLD, Boston.

Dr. Curry is not only a veteran teacher of his art, but a seasoned student of the English Bible as a revelation of truth through personality. His book goes as far as any book can to take the place of the living teacher. Dr. LYMAN ABBOTT,

in The Outlook.

The only comprehensive and thorough manual existing intended for instruction in the difficult art of good reading in the pulpit. Well calculated for adoption as a text-book for seniors in divinity schools, and no person set to conduct public service in the church could fail to improve himself by following its teachings. NEW YORK TRIBUNE.

The most charming virtue of the book is its sanity. You make the art spring from spiritual appreciation and insight. Most Bible readers see no more depth and literary beauty in Scripture than in a sign-post by the wayside. - Rev. J. CUMMING SMITH, Ď.D., Indianapolis.

The book does credit to the author's care. Dealing with a technical subject, its treatment is anything but technical, and Professor Curry has performed the almost impossible task of giving literary value to a subject which is too often treated with unintelligible vocabularies or with a smartness which destroys respect, even though it may command attention. We earnestly recommend this volume to every preacher. A careful study and practice of the principles it contains will give new charm and efficiency to the public reading of the Bible. Dr. Shailer Matthews, of the University of Chicago, in the Biblical World.

This volume is a pioneer. No other writer has ever attempted what is here done, and well done, by Professor Curry. He has long been known as an eminently successful teacher of the art of expression, has been the leading exponent in recent years of really scientific methods in the training of public speakers, and at Yale, Harvard, Boston University, Newton Theological Institution, and his well-known School of Expression in Boston, has delivered hundreds of students, readers, preachers, and teachers from bondage to elocutionary rules and mechanical posings and imitations, and taught them that in order to expression there must be impression, and that all reading and speaking must be simply the revela

peculiarities of Browning's poetry. How to understand Browning. The principles involved in rendering the monologue. An introduction to Browning, and to dramatic platform art. By S. S. Curry, Litt. D., $1.25; to teachers, $1.10 postpaid.

It seems to me to attack the central difficulty in understanding and reading Robert Browning's poetry. It opens a wide door to the greatest poetry of the modern age. The Rev. JOHN R. Gow, President of the Boston Browning Society.

A book which sheds an entirely new light on Browning and should be read by every student of the great master; indeed, everyone who would be well informed should read this book, which will interest any lover of literature. — Journal of Education.

A scholarly and thoroughly readable introduction to Browning's poetry and dramatic platform art, which should be read by every lover of Browning. - Woman's Home Journal.

Dr. Curry's study of Browning through the dramatic monologues, in which so much of his poetry is cast, is a work of many-sided values. It helps the reader of the poet to a new means of approaching the verse, and aids the interpreter to new sources of inspiration in rendering the poems before an audience. He teaches drama and dramatic interpretation at the same stroke. His book is one that easily leads the reader to a new appreciation of the art of the great poet. It is a genuine and sympathetic contribution to culture. Boston Advertiser.

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"Browning and the Dramatic Monologue" is a unique presentation of an old form of literary composition which Robert Browning brought to perfection. The work should prove very suggestive to those who wish to interpret these literary masterpieces before any audience of from one to a thousand persons, and there is much in it which will add to the appreciation of the poems by any reader, though he read to no ear but his own. - Dr. BUCKLEY, in the Christian Advocate.

It is a volume to be read and studied by those who admire the best in modern literature. — Mirror, Manchester, N. H.

It is the work of a serious student of the art, who has a comprehensive knowledge of literature, a sympathetic understanding of all that it should mean in education, and a practical experience in giving this information to others. The theme is clearly conceived and exceptionally well presented. Where it would be easy to muddy the water, or to talk platitudes, he has given a clear-cut, vital, satisfactory discussion. Information, suggestion, inspiration are to be found on every page. The book commends itself to the scholarly and critical, and furnishes valuable reading for every sincere student of the art of expression. Every student of literature, every teacher of expression will be proud of the book, and grateful to Dr. Curry for so adequate a discussion. Throughout Dr. Curry's book is satisfying, especially so after one has turned in vain through the many books on expression that are more or less promising in title or description only to find a smattering of outworn theory. This book is fresh, vital. Dr. Curry speaks with authority, and this latest book is the most important addition of recent years to the literature of public speaking. No student of literature, no student of expression can afford to miss reading it carefully. - Lyceumite and Talent, Chicago.

Few can read this book without obtaining from it a better understanding of Browning. — Miss PILSBURY, in Boston Ideas.

Dr. Curry has rightly divined that the most notable quality in Browning's verse is the dramatic, and he truthfully states that the poems lose their obscurity when the reader bears that quality in mind. Even the most recondite poem becomes illuminated if regarded as a monologue. This theme Dr. Curry treats at length and with a wealth of illustrative examples. Altogether this is an exceedingly helpful study. It has a twofold appeal. The book should prove invaluable to the public reciter, but it is not less suggestive for the student of Browning who has no intention of delivering the lines of the poet before an audience. Boston Herald.

The statement that many have testified to the fact that Dr. Curry was first instrumental in leading them to an appreciation and genuine love of Browning will be accepted without discount after reading this book, in which Dr. Curry's method of giving insight into Browning's work is embodied. Other writers of monologues receive attention in the book, but the fact remains that interest for many readers will center in the lifting of the veil of obscurity from the writings of Browning. Milwaukee, Wis., Sentinel.

That Browning's poems are more readily understood by considering them as dramatic monologues and by an understanding of the characteristics of the dramatic monologue, is interestingly explained. The Watchman.

The book is a serious study and deserves to be taken seriously. Dr. Curry brings to his work an open and critical mind, an enthusiasm essential to the teacher and the critic, and a literary acumen all too rare in these days he is no mere Christopher Columbus of the obvious he has certain things to say regarding the interpretation of Browning's dramatic monologues that no serious student of the poet can well afford to ignore. San Francisco, Calif., The Overland Monthly.

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As a contribution to Browning literature, it is a distinct advance how to love and understand Browning, but you have probed deeper and shown why one must understand him a close hold on a vital subject. PAULINE SHERWOOD TOWNSEND, Teacher of Expression, Belmont College, Nashville, Tenn.