matter was adopted in order to insure the student's interest being aroused in the subject at the start, thereby preventing an extinguishing of his enthusiasm by initiating him into the dry mysteries of the technical parts of speech before he had gained a fair idea regarding the means to employ in qualifying himself to become a public speaker. When, however, it is intended to use the work as a textbook, it should not be studied as it is read, but the lessons should be taken up in a natural sequence, beginning with breath and continuing through to the production of the finished speech or oration. Here is given an outline of study, or syllabus, showing the order in which the different subjects treated in the book can be taken up to the best advantage. 27- 37 37- 46 LESSON III Inflection LESSON IV Emphasis LESSON V Combined Use of Emphasis and Inflection, and Parenthesis and Pause.. LESSON VI Series and Modulation..... LESSON VII Paraphrasing .. 46- 54 54- 63 103-119 PAGES 84-102 64- 83 I- 25 LESSON VIII Composition LESSON IX Construction LESSON X The Making of Oratory... LESSON XI Delivery LESSON XII Memory LESSON XIII Lesson Talks.... LESSON XIV Grecian Orators.. 145-157 138-145 389-406 158-256 LIST OF ORATIONS PAGE III Against Crowning Demosthenes..... . Aeschines 229 Against Eratosthenes.... .Lysias 192 Against the Tory Government.. ..William E. Gladstone . . 361 At His Brother's Grave... .Robert G. Ingersoll... 359 Cuba Must Be Free.. ., John M. Thurston. 395 Digging for the Thought.. John Ruskin..... Education Horace Mann. 109 Encomium on Evagoras. Isocrates 194 Eulogy of General Grant... ..Dean Farrar.. 116 Eulogy of President Garfield.. ..James G. Blaine .. 364 Eulogy of Webster .Rufus Choate.. 345 Evidence and Precedents in Law.... Thomas Erskine... 398 Historical Reading... .Arthur James Balfour.. 113 Inaugural Address... Theodore Roosevelt.... 381 In Favor of the Peloponnesian War..Pericles .. 174 Judicial Injustices.. Charles Sumner. 405 Liberty or Death.. Patrick Henry......... 306 Menexenus and Others Against Dacaeogenes and Leochares.. ..Isaeus 209 On Leaving Springfield.. . Abraham Lincoln... 325 On the Foote Resolution.. Robert Young Hayne... 318 On the Murder of Lovejoy... Wendell Phillips... 325 On Resigning from the Senate. . Robert Toombs.. 337 On the Murder of Herodes.. . Antiphon 164 On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators Cato the Younger...... 265 On the Treatment of the Catiline Conspirators ...Caesar 270 On Withdrawing from the Union....Jefferson Davis.. 331 Oration Against Leocrates.. .Lycurgus 223 Oration on the Crown. ..Demosthenes 243 Our Country..... Edwin G. Lawrence.... 384 202 Peace Between Labor and Capital...John Haynes Holmes.. 378 Roberts Burns...... .George William Curtis. 354 Speech Against Athenogenes........Hyperides Speech in Support of the Oppian Law Cato the Censor. 259 Speech on the Mysteries..... ... Andocides 180 Speech to His Troops.. ... Catiline 278 Speech to the Conspirators. .Catiline 276 Sumner and the South... .L. Q. C. Lamar... 357 The Birth of an Orator. .John Haynes Holmes.. 375 The Blind Preacher.. William Wirt.... 61 "The Cross of Gold" Speech. .William J. Bryan.. 366 The First Olynthiac.... .Demosthenes 77 The First Oration Against Verres...Cicero 282 The "House Divided Against Itself" Speech .... . Abraham Lincoln...... 322 The Perfect Orator.... .Richard B. Sheridan ... 380 The Permanency of Empire.. .Wendell Phillips.... 401 "The Seventh of March” Speech.....Daniel Webster... 310 The Strength of the American Government ..John Bright.... 353 'ord INDEX 270, 280 107, 126 Adam, 15 Burke, Edmund, 28, 34, 42, 161, Caesar, Julius, 257, 258, 259, Calhoun, John C., 299 Cassius, Dion, 259 Catiline, Lucius Sergius, 275, Cato the Censor, 257, 259 Charles I, 298 Channing, William Ellery, V, Chatham, Earl of, 161, 299 Choate, Joseph H., 304 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, VII, 13, 27, 34, 55, 257, 258, 280, 282, 298, 305 Clause, qualified, 30 Cockran, W. Bourke, 304 Commands, 35 Composition, 84 Continuity, 31 55 Contrast, 47; double, 48; single, 121; exercises for the pro Contrasts, series of, 58 Construction, 64 Cords, the vocal, 127 Cousin, Victor, VI Crassus, Lucius Lucinius, 257, 258, 281 |