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Day............ _T. De
Witt Talmage_ Cassius against Cæsar.............. William Shakespeare
The Spirit of the South............ _Henry W. Grady_ Something Rankling
Here............ Daniel Webster Faith in the People................ John Bright
The French against Hayti........... Wendell Phillips The Necessity of
Force............. _John M. Thurston_ Against War with Mexico............
Thomas Corwin The Murder of Lovejoy.............. Wendell Phillips
DEPICTING CHARACTER A Tale of the Plains............... Theodore
Roosevelt Gunga Din.......................... Rudyard Kipling Address of
Sergeant Buzfuz......... Charles Dickens A Natural Philosopher..............
Maccabe Response to a Toast................
Litchfield Moseley Partridge at
the Play.............. Henry Fielding A Man's a Man for a That...........
Robert Burns Artemus Ward's Lecture............. Charles Farrar Brown
Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Belle... John Hay The Trial of Abner

Barrow.......... Richard Harding Davis
PART THREE
PLATFORM PRACTICE
THE SPEECH OF FORMAL OCCASION The Benefits of a College
Education Abbott Lawrence Lowell What the College Gives............. Le
Baron Russell Briggs Memorial Day Address............... _John D. Long_
William McKinley................... John Hay Robert E. Lee......................
_John W. Daniel_ Farewell Address to the United States
Senate. ....................................Henry Clay The Death of
Garfield.............. _James G. Blaine_ The Second Inaugural Address.......
Abraham Lincoln The Death of Prince Albert......... Benjamin Disraeli
An Appreciation of Mr. Gladstone... _Arthur J. Balfour_ William E.
Gladstone............... Lord Rosebery The Soldier's Creed................
Horace Porter Competition in College............. Abbott Lawrence
Lowell THE PUBLIC LECTURE A Master of the Situation..........
_James T. Fields_ Wit and Humor...................... _Minot J. Savage_ A
Message to Garcia................ Elbert Hubbard Shakespeare's "Mark
Antony"........ Anonymous André and Hale..................... _Chauncey M.
Depew_ The Battle of Lexington............ Theodore Parker The Homes
of the People............ _Henry W. Grady_ General Ulysses S.
Grant........... _Canon G. W. Farrar_ American Courage...................
Sherman Hoar The Minutemen of the Revolution.... George William
Curtis Paul Revere's Ride................. George William Curtis The Arts
of the Ancients........... Wendell Phillips A Man without a
Country............ Edward Everett Hale The Execution of Rodriguez.........
Richard Harding Davis THE INFORMAL DISCUSSION The Flood of
Books................. Henry van Dyke Effectiveness in Speaking..........
William Jennings Bryan Books, Literature and the People... Henry van
Dyke Education for Business............. Charles William Eliot The
Beginnings of American Oratory. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Daniel Webster, the Man............ Thomas Wentworth Higginson The
Enduring Value of Speech....... Thomas Wentworth Higginson To
College Girls................... Le Baron Russell Briggs The Art of
Acting.................. Henry Irving Address to the Freshman Class at
Harvard University ....................................
Charles William Eliot With
Tennyson at Farringford....... By His Son Notes on
Speech-Making............. Brander Matthews Hunting the

Grizzly................ Theodore Roosevelt
ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION
DEBATES AND CAMPAIGN SPEECHES On Retaining the
Philippine Islands _George F. Hoar_ On Retaining the Philippine
Islands William McKinley Debate on the Tariff............... _Thomas B.
Reed_ Debate on the Tariff............... _Charles F. Crisp_ South Carolina
and Massachusetts... _Robert Y. Hayne_ South Carolina and
Massachusetts... Daniel Webster The Republican Party............... John
Hay Nominating Ulysses S. Grant........ Roscoe Conkling The Choice of
a Party.............. Roscoe Conkling Nominating John Sherman............
_James A. Garfield_ The Democratic Party............... _William E.
Russell_ The Call to Democrats.............. _Alton B. Parker_
Nominating Woodrow Wilson.......... _John W. Wescott_ Democratic
Faith................... _William E. Russell_ England and America................
John Bright On Home Rule in Ireland............ _William E. Gladstone_
THE LEGAL PLEA The Dartmouth College Case......... Daniel
Webster In Defense of the Kennistons....... Daniel Webster In Defense
of the Kennistons, II... Daniel Webster In Defense of John E.
Cook......... _D. W. Voorhees_ In Defense of the Soldiers......... _Josiah
Quincy, Jr._ In Defense of the Soldiers, II..... _Josiah Quincy, Jr._ In
Defense of the Soldiers, III.... _Josiah Quincy, Jr._ In Defense of Lord
George Gordon... Lord Thomas Erskine Pronouncing Sentence for
High Treason ................................... Sir Alfred Wills The Impeachment
of Andrew Johnson.. _George S. Boutwell_ The Impeachment of
Andrew Johnson.. _William M. Evarts_ The Impeachment of Andrew
Johnson, II ................................... _William M. Evarts_
THE AFTER-DINNER SPEECH At a University Club Dinner........
_Henry E. Howland_ The Evacuation of New York......... _Joseph H.
Choate_ Ties of Kinship.................... Sir Edwin Arnold Canada,
England and the United States ................................... Sir Wilfred
Laurier Monsieur and Madame................ _Paul Blouet (Max O'Rell)_
The Typical American............... _Henry W. Grady_ The Pilgrim
Mothers................ _Joseph H. Choate_ Bright Land to
Westward............ _E. O. Wolcott_ Woman..............................
Theodore Tilton Abraham Lincoln.................... Horace Porter To
Athletic Victors................ _Henry E. Howland_
THE OCCASIONAL POEM Charles Dickens.................... William

Watson The Mariners of England............ Thomas Campbell Class
Poem......................... Langdon Warner A Troop of the Guard...............
_Hermann Hagedorn, Jr._ The Boys........................... Oliver Wendell
Holmes THE ANECDOTE The Mob Conquered.................. George
William Curtis An Example of Faith................ _Henry W. Grady_ The
Rail-Splitter.................. _H. L. Williams_ O'Connell's Wit....................
Wendell Phillips A Reliable Team.................... Theodore Roosevelt
Meg's Marriage..................... Robert Collyer Outdoing Mrs.
Partington........... Sidney Smith Circumstance not a Cause........... Sidney
Smith More Terrible than the Lions....... _A. A. McCormick_ Irving,
the Actor.................. John De Morgan Wendell Phillips's Tact............
James Burton Pond Baked Beans and Culture............ Eugene Field
Secretary Chase's Chin-Fly......... _F. B. Carpenter_
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