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Title: Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z

Author: Various

Release Date: May 19, 2006 [EBook #18422]

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MODERN ELOQUENCE

LIBRARY OF

AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES, LECTURES

OCCASIONAL ADDRESSES

[Illustration: _PRISCILLA AND JOHN ALDEN_

_Photogravure after a painting by Lasalett J. Potts_

An admirable conception of the old story of an early Puritan courtship
famous in song and story, and made use of by many New England orators.]

MODERN

ELOQUENCE

EDITOR

THOMAS B REED

JUSTIN McCARTHY . ROSSITER JOHNSON

ALBERT ELLERY BERGH

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

VOLUME III

After-Dinner

Speeches

P-Z

GEO. L. SHUMAN & CO.
CHICAGO
Copyright, 1903
JOHN R SHUMAN

_COMMITTEE OF SELECTION_

EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Author of "The Man Without a Country."

JOHN B. GORDON, Former United States Senator.

NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, Associate Editor "International Library of
Famous Literature."

JAMES B. POND, Manager Lecture Bureau; Author of "Eccentricities of
Genius."

GEORGE McLEAN HARPER, Professor of English Literature, Princeton
University.

LORENZO SEARS, Professor of English Literature, Brown University.

EDWIN M. BACON, Former Editor "Boston Advertiser" and "Boston Post."

J. WALKER McSPADDEN, Managing Editor "Edition Royale" of Balzac's
Works.

F. CUNLIFFE OWEN, Member Editorial Staff "New York Tribune."

TRUMAN A. DEWEESE, Member Editorial Staff "Chicago Times-Herald."

CHAMP CLARK, Member of Congress from Missouri.

MARCUS BENJAMIN, Editor, National Museum, Washington, D. C.

CLARK HOWELL, Editor "Atlanta Constitution."

INTRODUCTIONS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES BY

THOMAS B. REED,
LORENZO SEARS,
CHAMP CLARK,
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE,
JONATHAN P. DOLL