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STANDARD ELOCUTIONARY BOOKS
FIVE-MINUTE READINGS FOR YOUNG LADIES.Selected and adapted by Walter K. Fobes. Cloth. 50 cents.
FIVE-MINUTE DECLAMATIONS. Selected and adapted byWalter K. Fobes, teacher of elocution and public reader; authorof "Elocution Simplified." Cloth. 50 cents.
FIVE-MINUTE RECITATIONS. By Walter K. Fobes. Cloth.50 cents.
Pupils in public schools on declamation days are limited to five minuteseach for the delivery of "pieces." There is a great complaint of the scarcityof material for such a purpose, while the injudicious pruning of eloquentextracts has often marred the desired effects. To obviate these difficulties,new "Five-Minute" books have been prepared by a competent teacher.
ELOCUTION SIMPLIFIED. With an appendix on Lisping, Stammering,and other Impediments of Speech. By Walter K. Fobes,graduate of the "Boston School of Oratory." 16mo. Cloth. 50 cents.Paper, 30 cents.
"The whole art of elocution is succinctly set forth in this small volume,which might be judiciously included among the text-books of schools."—NewOrleans Picayune.
ADVANCED READINGS AND RECITATIONS. By AustinB. Fletcher, A.M., LL.B., Professor of Oratory, Brown University,and Boston University School of Law. This book has been alreadyadopted in a large number of Universities, Colleges, Post-graduateSchools of Law and Theology, Seminaries, etc. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50.
"Professor Fletcher's noteworthy compilation has been made with rarerhetorical judgment, and evinces a sympathy for the best forms of literature,adapted to attract readers and speakers, and mould their literary taste."—Prof.J. W. Churchill, Andover Theological Seminary.
THE COLUMBIAN SPEAKER. Consisting of choice and animatedpieces for declamation and reading. By Loomis J. Campbell,and Orin Root, Jun. 16mo. Cloth. 75 cents.
Mr. Campbell, as one of the editors of "Worcester's Dictionaries," thepopular "Franklin Readers," and author of the successful little work,"Pronouncing Hand-Book of 3,000 Words," is well known as a thoroughscholar. Mr. Root is an accomplished speaker and instructor in the West,and both, through experience knowing the need of such a work, are wellqualified to prepare it. It is a genuine success.
VOCAL AND ACTION-LANGUAGE, CULTURE ANDEXPRESSION. By E. N. Kirby, teacher of elocution in the LynnHigh Schools. 12mo. English cloth binding. Price, $1.25.
"Teachers and students of the art of public speaking, in any of its forms,will be benefited by a liberal use of this practical hand-book."—Prof.Churchill.
KEENE'S SELECTIONS. Selection for reading and elocution. Ahand-book for teachers and students. By J. W. Keene, A.M., M.D.Cloth. $1.
"An admirable selection of practical pieces."
LITTLE PIECES FOR LITTLE SPEAKERS. The primaryschool teacher's assistant. By a practical teacher. 16mo. Illustrated.75 cents. Also in boards, 50 cents. Has had an immense sale.
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