Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), April 12, 1845, vol. 1, no. 15, p. ???-???

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A PLAIN SYSTEM OF ELOCUTION, or Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation, with Exercises in Prose and Verse, &c., &c. By G. Vandenhoff, Professor of Elocution in the City of New York. Second edition. C. Shepard, 191 Broadway. 1 vol. 12mo. pp. 327.

We must defer to another time a full notice of the merits of this very excellent work. We are happy to learn that a second edition has been called for, because it shows a just appreciation in the public of a work of unpretending utility, and because it is a pretty good assurance that a certain number of persons have been benefitted by its use. It is a rare thing to find a good reader, yet no person who is not afflicted by a malformation of his organs, can have a good excuse for reading badly. The directions in Mr. Vanderhoff's book are so simple, so easy of comprehension. and may be so readily practised. that there should be no mercy shown, hereafter, to any slovenly or inelegant reader, who has the means to possess himself of a copy of this excellent system.