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. On Withdrawing from the Union....Jefferson Davis.. Oration Against Leocrates..... Oration on the Crown. Our Country.... ...Caesar 270 331 .Lycurgus 223 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.. 202 259 180 278 276 357 The First Oration Against Verres...Cicero Speech to the Conspirators. The Birth of an Orator. The Blind Preacher.... "The Cross of Gold" Speech... The First Olynthiac...... The "House Divided Against Itself" Speech The Perfect Orator.... 282 The Permanency of Empire.... "The Seventh of March" Speech.....Daniel Webster.. The Strength of the American Gov ernment John Bright...... 353 Adam, 15 INDEX Adams, Samuel, 30, 33, 299 Antony, Marc, 257, 258, 259 Argumentation, 87; examples Audience, how, to control an, 145 Aurelius, Marcus, 410 Balfour, Arthur James, 60 Black, Jeremiah S., 84, 99 Breath, 132, 122; the forms of, Bryan, William J., IV, 13, 27, Burke, Edmund, 28, 34, 42, 161, 299 Caesar, Julius, 257, 258, 259, Calhoun, John C., 299 Catiline, Lucius Sergius, 275, Cato the Censor, 257, 259 Channing, William Ellery, V, Chatham, Earl of, 161, 299 Clause, qualified, 30 Clay, Henry, VI, 27, 162, 299 Composition, 84 Confidence, how to acquire, 145 Contrast, 47; double, 48; single, Contrasts, series of, 58 Construction, 64 Crassus, Lucius Lucinius, 257, Curran, John P., 23, 93, 299 |