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Title: The Training of a Public Speaker

Author: Grenville Kleiser

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THE TRAINING OF A PUBLIC SPEAKER

BY GRENVILLE KLEISER

_Formerly Instructor in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity
School, Yale University. Author of_ "_How to Speak
in Public_," "_Great Speeches and How to Make
Them_," "_Complete Guide to Public Speaking_,"
"_How to Build Mental Power_,"
"_Talks on Talking_," _etc., etc._

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FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY

GRENVILLE KLEISER

[_Printed in the United States of America_]

Published, February, 1920

Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910

PREFACE

The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally
recognized. To-day the public speaker plays a vital part in the solution
of every great question and problem. Oratory, in the true sense, is not
a lost art, but a potent means of imparting information, instruction,
and persuasion.

Eloquence is still "the appropriate organ of the highest personal
energy." As one has well said, "The orator is not compelled to wait
through long and weary years to reap the reward of his labors. His
triumphs are instantaneous."

And again, "To stand up before a vast assembly composed of men of the
most various callings, views, passions, and prejudices, and mold them at
will; to play upon their hearts and minds as a master upon the keys of
a piano; to convince their understandings by the logic, and to thrill
their feelings by the art of the orator; to see every eye watching his
face, and every ear intent on the words that drop from his lips; to see
indifference changed to breathless interest, and aversio