Chapter I.

Preliminary Ideas—Criterion of the Oratorical Art.

Chapter II. Of The Voice.

Organic Apparatus of the Voice—The Voice in Relation to Compass—The Voice in Relation to Vowels—Practical Conclusions

Chapter III. The Voice in Relation to Intensity of Sound.

What is Understood by Intensity of Sound—Means of Augmenting the Timbre of the Voice—Rules for Intensity of Sound

Chapter IV. The Voice in Relation to Measure.

Of Slowness and Rapidity in Oratorical Delivery—Of Respiration and Silence—Inflections—Rules of Inflection—Special Inflections

Chapter II. Definition and Division of Gesture.

Gesture is the Direct Agent of the Heart—Gesture is the Interpreter of Speech—Gesture is an Elliptical Language

Chapter IV. The Laws of Gesture.

The Priority of Gesture to Speech—Retroaction—Opposition of Agents—Number of Gestures—Duration of Gesture—The Rhythm of Gesture—Importance of the Laws of Gesture

Chapter V. Of Gesture in Particular.

The Head—Movements of the head: The Normal State, The Eccentric State, The Concentric State—Of the Eyes—Of the Eyebrows

Chapter VI. Of The Torso.

The Chest—The Shoulders.

Chapter VII. Of The Limbs.

The Arms—Inflections of the Forearm—Of the Elbow—Of the Wrist—Of the Hand: The Digital Face, The Back Face, The Palmar Face—Of the Fingers—Of the Legs.

Chapter VIII. Of the Semeiotic, or the Reason of Gesture.

The Types which Characterize Gesture—Of Gesture Relative to its Modifying Apparatus