Identifier: delsarterecit00wilb (find matches)
Title: Delsarte recitation book and directory
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Wilbor, Elsie M., ed
Subjects: Delsarte system Recitations
Publisher: New York, E.S. Werner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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136 72 91299 29229176287 18240 237 270 280 205 24 lOI 217167219 255140, 168, 181, 198 214, 225, 246, 27s, 285, 302 . 49 NOTICE! Every piece in the Delsarte Recitation Book, withtwo or three exceptions, has been either written, translated,arranged, or adapted specially for the book. Every se-lection is protected by me by copyright. All persons aretherefore hereby warned against reprinting any of theserecitations, as no infringement of the copyright will be per-mitted. I hereby cordially thank the following publishers for theircourtesy in making special arrangements whereby I ampermitted to use their copyright matter: Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Jovita,* TheMinisters Housekeeper, and The Government Spy. Messrs. Jordan, Marsh & Co. for Jack Halls Boat-Race. The New England Journal of Education for The StatelyMinuet. Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls for The B. B. Romance. Messrs. Bromfield & Co. for Jimmy Browns Dog. The D. Lothrop Co. for John Spicer on Clothes. EDITOR, ix
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FRANCOIS DELSARTE. TN 1811, in Solesmes, France, was born a child whowas destined to achieve the greatest triumphs inart, to contribute the deepest knowledge to science,and to command the most marvelous homage in so-ciety. This child was christened Frangois Delsarte.When Delsarte was but six years of age his father dieda bankrupt. His mother took him and his brother toParis, hoping to earn there a livelihood. But disap-pointment, toil, poverty, and despair soon achievedtheir cruel work. The mother died suddenly, leavingher boys friendless waifs, to drift at the mercy of thefearful flood of Parisian life. This was not the last blow that death was to deal tothe tender heart of this desolate child. The winter of1821 was unusually severe in Paris. One night, in adeserted loft, two little boys entwined in each othersarms lay fast asleep. The sleep of one of them waseternal ; and when morning broke, Frangois Delsartewas hugging to his heart the starved and frozen bodyof his brother. Returni

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