he voice, which is, of course, the worst time for them to
employ it. As a rule, men re-acquire the natural manner of breathing
more easily and quickly than women; this may be partly accounted for by
their greater freedom from constricting garments. After a few weeks'
training of the respiratory muscles, the lung capacity frequently
exceeds, in women especially, the average given in Hutchinson's tables.

"Thanking you in anticipation for your courtesy in publishing this
letter,--I am, sir, yours &c.,

"K. BEHNKE

"18, Earl's Court Square, S.W."

INDEX.

Artificial female voice, Roman teachers, 2

Back ring pyramid muscles, 46, 48

Bands uniting shield and tongue-bone, 34

Belts _v._ braces for men, 25

Breast bone, 11

Breathing, Collar-bone, 17
----, Curing defective, 23
---- during sleep, 28
---- exercises, 106
----, midriff and rib combined, 17
----, Mouth _v._ nostril, 26
---- neglected by teachers, 19
----, View of larynx, 84

Breath, Singers' half-, 26

Browne, Lennox, on breathing, 18, 22

Carpenter, Dr., How tone is produced, 39

Cartilages of Santorini, 51, 54, 80
---- of Wrisberg, 51, 54, 81

Catlin on American Indian breathing, 28

Chest described, 12
---- voice used for pay, 4

Chink, Vocal, 45, 81

Clergymen's sore throat, 22

Collar-bones, 11

Composers disregarding voices, 3
----' ignorance of harp, 3
----, Modern, wed music and words, 3
---- to blame for vocal decline, 4

Cords, Vocal, a misleading term, 38
----, ----, False, 60
----, ----, origin of term, 8

Corsets for gentlemen, 26

Curwen's names for registers, 87

Czermak's test in vowel formation, 59
---- use of the laryngoscope, 75

Duprez' Chest C, 5

Eberth's case, voice-box without lid, 35

Elsberg on nose-breathing, 28
---- on wedges (posterior nodules), 55

Eustachian tubes, 58

Exercises, Ah, legato, scala, 117
----, Breathing, 106
----, Controlling tongue, 124
----, glottis, check and glide, 112
---- for tone quality, 119, 121
---- in changing registers, 118
----, Mixed-voice, 119
---- on koo, 124
---- on vowels, 116
----, Opening mouth, 125
----, Resonator, 119
----, Soft palate, 121
---- to govern pitch, 115
----, Voice production, 110

Experiment, calf's lungs, 12
----, Czermak on vowels, 59
----, defects in breathing, 23
----, feeling ring-sh