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may serve for cultivating facility in giving entertaining touches to serious discourse. All the selections for platform practice are designed, as seems most fitting, to occupy about five minutes in delivery. Original speeches, wherein the student presents his own thought, may be intermingled with this more technical work in delivery, or may be taken up in a more special way in a subsequent course.
It should, perhaps, be suggested that the plan of procedure here prescribed can be modified to suit the individual teacher or student. The method of advance explained in the Discussion of Principles is believed to be the best, but some who use the book may prefer, for example, to begin with the second group of selections, the familiar, colloquial passages, and proceed from these to those more elevated and sustained. This or any other variation from the plan here proposed can, of course, be adopted. For any plan the variety of material is deemed sufficient, and the method of grouping will be found convenient and practical.
The making of this kind of book would not be possible except for the generous privileges granted by many authors and many publishers of copyrighted works. For the special courtesies of all whose writings have a place here the editor would make the fullest acknowledgment of indebtedness. The books from which extracts are taken have been mentioned, in every case, in a prominent place with the title of the selection, in order that so far as possible students may be led carefully to read the entire original, and become fully imbued with its meaning and spirit, before undertaking the vocal work on the selected portion. For the purpose of such reading, it would be well to have these books collected on a section of shelves in school libraries for easy and ready reference.
The publishers from whose books selections have been most liberally drawn are, Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, Messrs. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, Messrs. Little, Brown, and Company, of Boston, and Messrs. Harper and Brothers, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Messrs. G. W. Dillingham Company, Messrs. Doubleday, Page and Company, and Mr. C. P. Farrell, New York. Several of the after-dinner speeches are taken from the excellent fifteen volume collection, "Modern Eloquence," by an arrangement with Geo. L. Shuman and Company, Chicago, publishers. In the first three volumes of this collection will be found many other attractive after-dinner speeches.
I. L. W. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CONTENTS

PREFACE INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
A DISCUSSION OF PRINCIPLES
TECHNICAL TRAINING Establishing the Tone Vocal Flexibility The Formation of Words Making the Point Indicating Values and Relations Expressing the Feeling Showing the Picture Expression by Action
PLATFORM PRACTICE The Formal Address The Public Lecture The Informal Discussion Argumentative Speech The After-Dinner Speech The Occasional Poem The Making of the Speech
PART TWO
TECHNICAL TRAINING
ESTABLISHING THE TONE O Scotia!.......................... Robert Burns O Rome! My Country!................ Lord Byron Ring Out, Wild Bells!.............. Alfred Lord Tennyson Roll On, Thou Deep!................ Lord Byron Thou Too, Sail On!................. _Henry W. Longfellow_ O Tiber, Father Tiber!............. Lord Macaulay Marullus to the Roman Citizens..... William Shakespeare The Recessional.................... Rudyard Kipling The Cradle of Liberty.............. Daniel Webster The Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Edmund Burke Bunker Hill........................ Daniel Webster The Gettysburg Address............. Abraham Lincoln VOCAL FLEXIBILITY C?sar, the Fighter................. _Henry W. Longfellow_ Official Duty...................... Theodore Roosevelt Look Well to your Speech........... George Herbert Palmer Hamlet to the Players.............. William Shakespeare Bellario's Letter.................. William Shakespeare Casca, Speaking of C?sar........... William Shakespeare Squandering of the Voice........... Henry Ward Beecher The Training of the Gentleman...... _William J. Tucker_
MAKING THE POINT Brutus to the Roman Citizens....... William Shakespeare The Precepts of Polonius........... William Shakespeare The High Standard.................. Lord Rosebery On Taxing the Colonies............. Edmund Burke Justifying the President........... _John C. Spooner_ Britain and America................ John Bright VALUES AND TRANSITIONS King Robert of Sicily.............. _Henry W. Longfellow_ Laying the Atlantic Cable.......... _James T. Fields_ O'Connell, the Orator.............. Wendell Phillips Justification for Impeachment...... Edmund Burke Wendell Phillips, the Orator....... George William Curtis On the Disposal of Public Lands.... _Robert Y. Hayne_ The Declaration of Independence.... Abraham Lincoln EXPRESSING THE FEELING Northern Greeting to Southern Veterans. ................................... Henry Cabot Lodge Matches and Overmatches............ Daniel Webster The Coalition...................... Daniel Webster In His Own Defense................. Robert Emmet On Resistance to Great Britain..... Patrick Henry Invective against Louis Bonaparte.. Victor Hugo SHOWING THE PICTURE Mount, the Doge of Venice!......... Mary Russell Mitford The Revenge........................ Alfred Lord Tennyson A Vision of War.................... _Robert G. Ingersoll_ Sunset Near Jerusalem.............. Corwin Knapp Linson A Return in Triumph................ _T. De Witt Talmage_ A Return in Defeat................. _Henry W. Grady_
EXPRESSION BY ACTION In Our Forefathers' Day............ _T. De Witt Talmage_ Cassius against C?sar.............. 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_