AUTHOR:
Alfred Ayres = pseudonym of Thomas Embley Osmun.
COMPLETE TITLE: Acting and Actors, Elocution and Elocutionists. A Book about Theater Folk and Theater Art by Alfred Ayres, Author of the Orthoëpist, the Verbalist, the Essentials of Elocution, the Mentor, etc. With Preface by Harrison Gray Fiske, Introduction by Edgar S. Werner, Prologue by James A. Waldron.

LATER EDITIONS:
Second edition "with supplement": New York, D. Appleton, 1894 and 1903.
Online text: HATHI TRUST