e and School.

Chapter XI. Delsarte's Family.

Chapter XII. Delsarte's Religion.

Chapter XIII. Delsarte's Friends.

Chapter XIV. Delsarte's Scholars.

Chapter XV. Delsarte's Musical Compositions.

Chapter XVI. Delsarte's Evening Lectures.

Chapter XVII. Delsarte's Inventions.

Chapter XVIII. Delsarte before the Philotechnic Association.

Chapter XIX. Delsarte's Last Years.

Literary Remains Of Francois Delsarte.

Part Fifth.

Publisher's Note.

Delsarte's Last Letter To The King Of Hanover

Episode I.
Episode II.
Episode III.
Episode IV.
Episode V.

Semeiotics of the Shoulder.

Episode VI.
Episode VII.

What I Propose.
The Beautiful.

Trinity.

Reversal of Processional Relations.

Passion of Signs, Signs of Passion.

Definition of Form.

On Distinction and Vulgarity of Motion.

Gesture.

Definition of Gesture.

Attitudes of the Head.

Attitudes of the Hands.

Affirmation of the Hand.

Table of the Normal Character of the Nine Attitudes.

Attitudes of the Legs.

The Holy Trinity Recovered in Sound.

Speech.

Breathing.

Vocal Respiration.
Logical Respiration.
Passional Respiration.

Vocal Organ.

Definition Of The Voice.

What the Register is.
On Shading.
Pathetic Effects.
On the Tearing of the Voice.

Number.

Medallion of Inflection.

The Nature of the Colors of Each Circle in the Color Charts.

The Attributes of Reason.

Random Notes.

Part Sixth.

The Lecture and Lessons Given by Mme. Marie Geraldy (Delsarte's
Daughter) in America.

Part Seventh.

Article by Alfred Giraudet.
Article by Francis A. Durivage.
Article by Hector Berlioz.

Delaumosne On Delsarte.

The Delsarte System,

by

M. l'Abbe Delaumosne,

(_Pupil of Delsarte._)

Translated by Frances A. Shaw.

Francois Delsarte.

Francois Delsarte was born November 11, 1811, at Solesme, a little town
of the Department of the North, in France. His father, who was a
renowned physician and the author of several inventions, might have
secured a fortune for his family, had he been more anxious for the
morrow, but he died in a state bordering upon poverty.

In 1822, Francois was apprenticed to a porcelain painter of Paris, but,
yielding to a taste and aptitude for music, in the year 1825, he sought
and obtained admission to the Conservatory as a pensioner. Here a great
trial awaited him--a trial which wrec