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Excerpt from Expression in Singing: Including Thirty-One Exercises for Voice Culture I, theodore drury, feel that no higher compliment could be paid me than Mr. Howard's request to write a preface to this work, and I start with full knowledge of my inability to do justice to the writings of so great a master and genius. Books on voice culture are no more a novelty. I am certain, however, that in this, Mr. Howard has written a work of the greatest interest and benefit to students of vocal culture. That he is the foremost scientist living, on the voice - or for that matter that has ever lived - there is not the slightest doubt in the mind of anyone who has given the subject serious study. Mr. Howard has been happily endowed with one of the most aristo cratic lineages. His claim to have exhausted the hitherto little-known science and art of voice production may seem to the reader more reason able if they are given the principal points of his remarkable ancestry. It may seem more probable that he could accomplish so great a task if he had been in a measure prepared for it by his wonderful pedigree. Mr. Howard is the direct descendant of seven lines of kings and emperors, also a descendant through his father of the earliest American colonists, one of whom was a general in the Pequot Indian war. Two of his female ancestors married governors of Massachusetts; his father was wounded in the Mexican War, and he himself served in the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War. The Southworth genealogy, which can be found in the Lenox Library, begins with Wodin, Emperor of the second century, and leads down to the Earl of Leicester, where the Southworth family name begins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.