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Title: The Art of Lecturing
Revised Edition

Author: Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis

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Language: English

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THE ART OF LECTURING

by

ARTHUR M. LEWIS

Revised Edition

Chicago
Charles H. Kerr & Company
Co-operative

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. INTRODUCTORY
II. EXORDIUM
III. BEGIN WELL
IV. SPEAK DELIBERATELY
V. PERORATION
VI. READ WIDELY
VII. READ THE BEST
VIII. SUBJECT
IX. LEARN TO STOP
X. CHAIRMAN
XI. MANNERISMS
XII. COURSE LECTURING--NO CHAIRMAN
XIII. COURSE LECTURING--LEARN TO CLASSIFY
XIV. PREPARATION
XV. DEBATING
XVI. TRICKS OF DEBATE
XVII. RHETORIC
XVIII. THE AUDIENCE
XIX. STREET SPEAKING:
THE PLACE
THE STYLE
DISTURBERS
POLICE INTERFERENCE
BOOK-SELLING AND PROFESSIONALISM
XX. BOOK-SELLING AT MEETINGS
XXI. EXAMPLE BOOK TALKS
XXII. CONCLUSION

THE ART OF LECTURING

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

For some time I have been besieged with requests to open a "Speakers'
Class" or "A School of Oratory," or, as one ingenious correspondent puts
it, a "Forensic Club." With these requests it is impossible to comply
for sheer lack of time.

I have decided, however, to embody in these pages the results of my own
experience, and the best I have learned from the experience of others.

There are some things required in a good lecturer which cannot be
imparted to a pupil by any teacher, and we may as well dispose of these.

One is a good voice. Modern methods, however, have done much to make the
improvement of the voice possible. While it is probably impossible in
the great majority of cases to make a very fine voice out of a very poor
one, no one, with an average voic