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Browne's (Thos.) British Cicero. Phila., 1810.

Burke, Fox, Sheridan, et al.

Browne and Benke's Voice, Song, and Speech. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

A work by masters. Thorough in physiology and hygiene, yet plain and practical.

Browne's Voice Use and Stimulants. Marquis & Co., Chicago. Burbank's Speeches. Dick & Fitzgerald.

Burdett's Select Recitations and World of Humor. Excelsior Pub. House.

Burgh's Art of Speaking. 1792.

Annotated selections with examples of special emotions.

Bussey and Read's Newspaper Reader. Blackie & Son, London.

English editorials.

Butler's Fifth Reader.

Butler & Co., Phila.

Above the average of Readers. Selections not especially forensic.

Butler's Literary Selections. Butler & Co., Phila.

Wide range of good selections.

Butler's (Noble) Speaker. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky.

Selections short and varied. Old style.

Calkin's Ear and Voice Training. Kellogg & Co., New York.

Exercises chiefly in phonetics. Designed for the young.

Campbell and Root's Columbian Speaker. Lee & Shepard, Boston.

Fiery and patriotic speeches.

Carey's Excelsior Selections. Excelsior Pub. House, New

York.

Parlor elocution.

Carpenter's Select American Speeches. Phila., 1815.

Much like " American Oratory."

Carrington's Patriotic Reader. Lippincott Co., Phila.

Fine selections illustrating development of human liberty.

Cathcart's Youth's Speaker. American Book Co. New York

and Chicago.

The prose selections are short sensible speeches.

Coates's Comprehensive Speaker. Porter & Coates, Phila.

Introduction is a condensation of principles of J. E. Carpenter, London. Substantial speeches.

Cockin's Art of Delivering Written Language. 1775.
Cohen's Throat and Voice. I. Blackister, Son, & Co., Phila.
From a physician's standpoint. Thorough.
Coquelin's Actor and His Art.
Corson's Elocutionary Manual.

Roberts Bros., Boston.

Lippincott Co., Phila.

Introductory essay on literature and vocal culture. Selections are from Eng. lish classics.

Cull's Public Reading and Garrick's Mode of Reading Liturgy. 1840.

Cumnock's Choice Readings. McClurg & Co., Chicago.

Forensic speeches admirably selected.

Cumnock's School Speaker. McClurg & Co., Chicago.

Short selections, but not puerile.

Curry's Classics for Vocal Expression. School of Expression, Boston.

Many selections, varied in kind and length. Few forensic ones.

Dale's Outline of Elocution. J. E. Sherrill, Danville, Ind.
Usual selections.

Dalton's Evening Amusements. Cassell & Co., New York. Davis and Bridgeman's Brief Declamations. Holt & Co., New York.

Handy because of flexible covers. Speeches up to date.

Davis's Fourth Reader. Lippincott Co., Phila.

Dean's Science of Utterance. Silver, Burdett, & Co., Boston. Progressive exercises, very full and fine. Well-chosen illustrative selections. Delaumosne and Arnoud's Delsarte's System of Oratory. E. S. Werner, New York.

Delsartiana, well illustrated.

Devere and Carey's Selections.

De Witt and Webster's Recitations. De Witt Pub. Co., New York.

Dick's Recitations. Dick & Fitzgerald.

These, like the foregoing, are bound pamphlets of parlor elocution.

Diehl: see Randall-Diehl.

Durant's Hygiene of the Voice. Cassell & Co., New York.

From standpoints of both physician and singers - good.

Duval's Artistic Anatomy. Cassell & Co., New York.
Fundamental to gesture. Well illustrated.

Dwyer's Essay on Elocution. W. C. Little, Albany, N.Y.
Eaton's Original Readings and Recitations. London.
Emerson's Evolution of Expression. O. F. Huff, Boston.

Introduction explains reference of each selection to principle to be illustrated.
Enfield's Speaker.

1801.

Ewing (Thos.). Principles of Elocution. 1828 and 1857.
Latter a revised edition by Calvert.

Fobes's Elocution Simplified. A condensation of the principles of the great masters.

Fobes's Five-Minute Declamations. Lee & Shepard, Boston. Perfectly adapted to its purpose. All selections first-class.

Fowles's Free Speaker. Hall & Whiting, Boston.

Fine forensic speeches.

Freeman's Speech Formation as a Basis for True Spelling. Trübner & Co., London.

Frobisher's (J. E.) Acting and Oratory. College of Oratory and Acting, New York.

Discursive. Intended for teachers.

Frobisher's Voice and Action. American Book Co., New York and Chicago.

Full of exercises and explanations very carefully and clearly given. Selections elocutionary rather than forensic.

Fulton and Trueblood's Choice Readings. Boston.

Ginn & Co.,

Very complete along forensic as well as elocutionary lines. Wide range. Complete lists of good readings from Shakspeare and the Bible (q. v. in the following list).

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Proof that passion in human expression comes directly from nature. Oratory, rhythm, etc., treated from musical standpoint.

Goodrich's Fifth Reader. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky.

Goodrich's Sixth Reader. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky.

Old style.

Graham's Principles of Elocution.

Good marked selections of pulpit, and ancient and modern oratory.

Graham's Reasonable Elocution. American Book Co., New York and Chicago.

Well illustrated. Many selections.

Griffith's Class Book of Oratory. Christian Pub. Co., St. Louis. Compilation of usual elocutionary principles and selections.

Gummere's Elocution. Phila., 1857.

Based on Rush's system. Selections.

Guttman's Gymnastics of the Voice. E. S. Werner, New

York.

Authority on vocal culture. Well illustrated. Practice of head, neck, trunk, arms; voice production in singing and speaking; articulation; respiration.

Hall's Reader's Guide. 1848.

Hamilton's Collection of Parodies. Reeves & Turner, London. Imitations of the popular poems of modern American and English poets. Harrell and Neathery's North Carolina Speaker. Williams & Co., Raleigh, N.C.

Some good local speeches.

Hazlitt's Eloquence of British Senate. Brooklyn, 1810.

Fuller than Browne. Begins with reign of Charles I.

Helmore's Speakers, Singers, and Stammerers. J. Masters & Co., London.

Finely illustrated in colors.

Hillard's Sixth Reader.

American Book Co.

Introduction by Mark Bailey. Good forensic selections in old style.

Holmes's Miscellaneous Readings and Recitations. National School of Elocution and Oratory, Phila.

Parlor elocution of the showy sort.

Holmes's Voice Production and Presentation. Worthington, New York.

Excellent in anatomy and hygiene.

Holyoke's Hints on Public Speaking.

Didactic

Howard's Canadian Elocutionist. Rose Pub. Co., Toronto. Old-style introduction. Diversified selections.

Hudson's Classical Reader. Ginn & Co., Boston.

English classics of oratory as well as of essays and poetry.

Hunt's Stammering. 1865.

A practical modernization of the principles of Thelwall.

Huntoon's American Speaker. Morton & Co., Louisville,
Pamphlet style of selections, better than ordinary.

Hyde's Natural System of Elocution and Oratory. Fowler & Wells Co., New York.

Theoretical, yet suggestive. Based on phrenological study of physiognomy. Isbister's Outlines of Elocution for Boys. Longmans, Green, & Co., London.

James's Southern Selections. Lathrop & Wilkins, New Orleans. Sectional speeches. Very fine.

Johnston's and Adams's American and British Orations. Putnam, New York.

Admirably selected with a view to illustrate American and English political history.

Kidd's New Elocution and Vocal Culture. American Book Co.

A successful teacher. Forensic selections well made.

Kidd's Rhetorical Reader. American Book Co.

Selections made for natural forms of elocution rather than for set oratory.

King's Practice of Speech. Pittsburg, Pa.

Well illustrated. Principles rather than rules insisted upon.

Kirby's Voice and Action Language. Lee & Shepard, Boston. Good condensation of principles of Bell, Delaumosne, Guttman, Rush, et al. Kirkham's Elocution.

Kirkland's Patriotic Eloquence. Scribner's Sons, New York. Many forensic speeches.

Kitchen's Diaphragm. E. S. Werner, New York.

Monograph, well illustrated, of the hygiene as well as physiology of the subject. Kofler's Art of Breathing as a Basis of Tone Production. New York.

Langbridge's What to Read at Entertainments. Religious Tract Society, London.

Selections from Dickens, Scott, etc.

Lawrence's Model Speaker. Eldredge & Bro., Phila.

Much like Brooks's Elocution (q. v.).

Leffingwell's English Classics.
Varied dippings into the best literature.

Legouve's Art of Reading.

Putnam's Sons, New York.

Alger's Translation. Roberts Bros., Boston.

Roth's Translation. Claxton, Remsen, & Haeffelfinger, Phila.

Colloquial and practical, interesting in matter and charming in style.

Lewis's (Dio) New Gymnastics. Canfield Pub. Co., New York. Well illustrated. Exercises preparatory to specific training.

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