Publisher's Synopsis
Realizing that my book on the voice, "Health, Speech and Song," published in 1902, was inadequate to cope with the rapid progress in voice culture during the last few years, I decided that a more comprehensive and progressive work was essential, if my labors were to prove of any value. I have, therefore, written an entirely new book, embracing what I considered of vital interest in the earlier work and developing it to meet what I believe to be the need of today. I sincerely hope that the result of my added years of untiring investigation will both carry conviction and prove of service. Thirty years of practical experience as a lecturer and teacher of voice culture have led me to believe that there is but one reasonable way of training the vocal organ, and that its systematic development can be so practically presented in book form, that students, to a great extent, can do the fundamental work without the aid of a master.
