Standard Selections Part 85

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, ill.u.s.trated_

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, a.s.sociate Professor of Public Speaking in the University of Texas

12mo, cloth, 178 pages

This manual provides an a.n.a.lysis 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 cla.s.sical 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, c.o.c.kran, Schurz, Spalding, and Van d.y.k.e.

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 cla.s.ses but easily adaptable to high-school use. A thorough program of study is provided for speech melody, speech quality, speech rhythm, and speech dynamics, accompanied by several hundred ill.u.s.trative selections.

GINN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS

BOOKS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING

THE MAKING OF ARGUMENTS

By JOHN HAYS GARDINER, late of Harvard University

A brief course in argumentation to meet the needs of the future average citizen rather than of the few who go on to law or political life. The examples used throughout the book and the exercises and questions suggested for argument are drawn from matters in which young people from eighteen to twenty-two have a natural, lively interest and which they argue about in real life. The aim of the book is to develop habits of a.n.a.lysis and effective presentation of facts which will serve the student in the practical concerns of later life. _290 pages_

THE PRINCIPLES OF ARGUMENTATION

(Revised and Enlarged Edition)

By GEORGE P. BAKER, Harvard University, and H. B. HUNTINGTON, Brown University

This book holds an established place as one of the standard textbooks in the subject. Fundamental matters of a.n.a.lytical investigation, sifting of evidence, brief-drawing, and persuasive adaptation are clearly ill.u.s.trated by numerous extracts and are made teachable by varied practical exercises. The book as a whole develops intellectual power and avoids that "predigested" argumentative material which enables a student easily to remember--and surely to forget--"how to argue." _677 pages_

ORAL ENGLISH

By JOHN M. BREWER, Los Angeles State Normal School

This textbook treats oral English as a subject independent both of literature and of written composition. It furnishes the student brief directions, detailed exercises, and suggestive lists of topics of every-day interest which will provide material for doing with conscious direction of thought the things which unconsciously are done in the pursuit of every other study--arguing, explaining, and telling. It embodies the latest ideas in the teaching of this subject by subst.i.tuting for imitation of masterpieces of eloquence a direct and effective way of speaking without unnecessary adornment, more fitted to be of practical use to men and women of to-day. _396 pages_

GINN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS

BOOKS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING

ELEMENTS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING

By HARRY GARFIELD HOUGHTON, University of Wisconsin xi + 333 pages

This textbook aims to teach the student,

First, how to organize his subject matter into clear and logical form for purposes of public utterance.

Second, how to cultivate his powers of expression so as to enable him to convey his ideas most effectively.

The book combines a definite amount of accurately expressed theory with a maximum of practice. Special emphasis has been laid upon clear and accurate thinking as the foundation for all expression, and each principle has been treated in its relation thereto.

The book, while intended primarily for college courses, will also prove valuable in cla.s.ses in practical speaking in preparatory schools, as an aid in declamatory work (for this purpose Chapter II, The Conversational Mode, and Appendix II, Declamation, are particularly useful), and as a reference book.