The Art of Public Speaking

The Art of Public Speaking
by
Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale
Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

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Title: The Art of Public Speaking
Author: Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
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The Art of Public Speaking
BY
J. BERG ESENWEIN
AUTHOR OF
"HOW TO ATTRACT AND HOLD AN AUDIENCE,"
"WRITING THE SHORT-STORY,"
"WRITING THE PHOTOPLAY," ETC., ETC.,
AND
DALE CARNAGEY
PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING, BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF
COMMERCE AND FINANCE; INSTRUCTOR IN PUBLIC
SPEAKING, Y.M.C.A. SCHOOLS, NEW YORK, BROOKLYN,
BALTIMORE, AND PHILADELPHIA, AND THE NEW YORK
CITY CHAPTER, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BANKING
THE WRITER'S LIBRARY
EDITED BY J. BERG ESENWEIN
THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1915

THE HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO F. ARTHUR METCALF
FELLOW-WORKER AND FRIEND
Table of Contents Page
THINGS TO THINK OF FIRST--A
FOREWORD IX
CHAPTER I
--ACQUIRING CONFIDENCE BEFORE AN
AUDIENCE 1
CHAPTER II
--THE SIN OF MONOTONY 10
CHAPTER III
--EFFICIENCY THROUGH EMPHASIS AND
SUBORDINATION 16
CHAPTER IV
--EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PITCH 27
CHAPTER V
--EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PACE 39
CHAPTER VI
--PAUSE AND POWER 55
CHAPTER VII
--EFFICIENCY THROUGH INFLECTION 69
CHAPTER VIII
--CONCENTRATION IN DELIVERY 80
CHAPTER IX
--FORCE 87
CHAPTER X
--FEELING AND ENTHUSIASM 101
CHAPTER XI
--FLUENCY THROUGH PREPARATION 115
CHAPTER XII
--THE VOICE 125

CHAPTER XIII
--VOICE CHARM 134
CHAPTER XIV
--DISTINCTNESS AND PRECISION OF
UTTERANCE 146
CHAPTER XV
--THE TRUTH ABOUT GESTURE 156
CHAPTER XVI
--METHODS OF DELIVERY 171
CHAPTER XVII
--THOUGHT AND RESERVE POWER 184
CHAPTER XVIII
--SUBJECT AND PREPARATION 199
CHAPTER XIX
--INFLUENCING BY EXPOSITION 218
CHAPTER XX
--INFLUENCING BY DESCRIPTION 231
CHAPTER XXI
--INFLUENCING BY NARRATION 249
CHAPTER XXII
--INFLUENCING BY SUGGESTION 262
CHAPTER XXIII
--INFLUENCING BY ARGUMENT 280
CHAPTER XXIV
--INFLUENCING BY PERSUASION 295
CHAPTER XXV
--INFLUENCING THE CROWD 308
CHAPTER XXVI
--RIDING THE WINGED HORSE 321
CHAPTER XXVII
--GROWING A VOCABULARY 334
CHAPTER XXVIII
--MEMORY TRAINING 343
CHAPTER XXIX
--RIGHT THINKING AND PERSONALITY 355
CHAPTER XXX
--AFTER-DINNER AND OTHER OCCASIONAL
SPEAKING 362

CHAPTER XXXI
--MAKING CONVERSATION EFFECTIVE 372
APPENDIX A--FIFTY QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE 379

APPENDIX B--THIRTY THEMES FOR SPEECHES, WITH
SOURCE-REFERENCES 383
APPENDIX C--SUGGESTIVE
SUBJECTS FOR SPEECHES; HINTS FOR TREATMENT 386

APPENDIX D--SPEECHES FOR STUDY AND PRACTISE 394

GENERAL INDEX 506

=Things to Think of First=
A FOREWORD
The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect:
its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book
may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his
subject from the wrong angle even his excellent advice may prove to be
ineffective.
This book stands or falls by its authors' attitude toward its subject. If
the best way to teach oneself or others to speak effectively in public is
to fill the mind with rules, and to set up fixed standards for the
interpretation of thought, the utterance of language, the making of
gestures, and all the rest, then this book will be limited in value to such
stray ideas throughout its pages as may prove helpful to the reader--as
an effort to enforce a group of principles it must be reckoned a failure,
because it is then untrue.
It is of some importance, therefore, to those who take up this volume
with open mind that they should see clearly at the out-start what is the
thought that at once underlies and is builded through this structure. In
plain words it is this:
Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is
not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not a matter of
conformity to standards--at all. Public speaking is public utterance,

public issuance, of the man himself; therefore the first thing both in
time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel
things that are worthy of being given forth. Unless there be something
of value within, no tricks of training can ever make of the talker
anything more than a machine--albeit a highly perfected machine--for
the delivery of other men's goods. So self-development is fundamental
in our plan.
The second principle lies close to the first: The man must enthrone his
will to rule over his thought, his feelings, and all his physical powers,
so that the outer self may give perfect, unhampered expression to the
inner. It is futile, we