e technic of voice and action. In
illustration of the principles full selections as well as illustrative
passages are given, together with the necessary explanation, _xiv_ +
_250 pages_
BRITISH AND AMERICAN ELOQUENCE
Accounts of the lives and public careers of twenty-two noted British and
American orators together with selections from their greatest speeches.
The purpose is to point out by concrete example the abstract principles
of public speaking which should guide the beginner. The book aims to
select, adapt, and utilize in a single volume such helpful material as
the student of public speaking can find elsewhere only in many separate
volumes. _403 pages, illustrated_
CHOICE READINGS FROM POPULAR AND STANDARD AUTHORS
The number, variety, and interest of the selections are noteworthy. They
include prose and verse from a wide range of writers. Selections are
grouped in fourteen divisions, according to the nature of the subject
matter, _xix_ + _729 pages_
STANDARD SELECTIONS
Edited by ROBERT I. FULTON, THOMAS C. TRUEBLOOD, and EDWIN P. TRUEBLOOD
The purpose of the book is to provide material in poetry and oratory
that has never before appeared in books of this character, and to
stimulate interest in the authors represented. Nearly two hundred
selections of varying character are included. _510 pages_
GINN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS
EXTEMPORE SPEAKING
By EDWIN DUBOIS SHURTER, Associate Professor of Public Speaking in the
University of Texas
12mo, cloth, 178 pages
This manual provides an analysis of the art of extempore speaking,
together with specific examples and exercises. It is distinctly modern
in treatment, although drawing also from the rich fund of material in
classical and modern literature.
MASTERPIECES OF MODERN ORATORY
By EDWIN DUBOIS SHURTER
12mo, cloth, 369 pages
These fifteen orations, edited with introductions and notes, are
intended to furnish models for students of oratory, argumentation, and
debate. The orators represented are Burke, Webster, Lincoln, Phillips,
Curtis, Grady, Watterson, Daniel, Porter, Reed, Beveridge, Cockran,
Schurz, Spalding, and Van Dyke.
VOCAL EXPRESSION IN SPEECH
By HENRY EVARTS GORDON, late Professor of Public Speaking in the
University of Iowa
12mo, cloth, viii + 315 pages
A fresh and stimulating treatise on the fundamentals of public speaking
from its cultural side, intended primarily for college classes but
easily adapt
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