viii PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION from Van Bibber and Others; American Publishers' Corporation, "Scene from The Little Minister'"; The Century Company, "The Two Runaways" and "The Trial of Ben Thomas," from Two Runaways and Other Stories; The Bowen-Merrill Company, "The South Wind and the Sun," and "Knee-Deep in June," from Afterwhiles, and H. S. Edwards' "Mammy's Li'l' Boy." EVANSTON, ILL., June, 1898. R. McL. C. PREFACE TO THE NEW DEFINITIVE EDITION In the present revised edition of "CHOICE READINGS about seventy pages of new material have been added. The chief object has been to furnish the student with the best selections for speaking purposes that can be found in our literature. The manual on the first one hundred pages has been retained intact. It has recently been approved by the leading teachers of public speaking as "the sanest and most practical system of elocutionary training." My sincere thanks are extended to my colleagues of the School of Oratory for their advice in selecting the new material for this edition, and their help in preparing it for publication. I am greatly indebted to Messrs. Harper and Brothers for their permission to use the following selections: "The Angel and the Shepherds," from Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace, and “If I were King," and "The Burgundian Defiance," from If I were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy. Also to G. W. Dillingham for a selection from The Lion and the Mouse, by Charles Klein. Also to Edwin Markham for permission to use "Lincoln, the Man of the People," from The Man with the Hoe and Complete Poems. EVANSTON, 1913. R. McL. C. ix CONTENTS PAGE I HOW CAN I BECOME A DISTINCT SPEAKER HOW CAN I BECOME A NATURAL SPEAKER EXPRESSION ΙΟΙ |