MODEL SPEECHES AND SKELETON ESSAYS.

Previous

Ogden's Model Speeches for all School Occasions. Containing Original Addresses and Orations on everything appertaining to School Life; comprising Set Speeches on all occasions connected with Schools, Academies and Colleges, for School Officers, as well as for Teachers and Students of both sexes, with appropriate replies. By Christol Ogden.

This original work contains over one-hundred telling speeches and replies in well-chosen words, and every variety of style, for

  • All Kinds of School Ceremonials.
  • Speeches on Opening and Dedicating New Schools and Academies.
  • Salutatory and Valedictory Addresses.
  • Presentations and Conferring Honors.
  • Burlesque Speeches.
  • Addresses to Teachers.
  • Prologues and Epilogues for School Exhibitions.
  • Anniversary Congratulations.

Including practical hints on Extempore speaking with a dissertation on the selection of appropriate topics, suitable style, and effective delivery, and also valuable advice to those who lack confidence when addressing the Public.

Paper 50 cts.
Bound in boards 75 cts.

Ogden's Skeleton Essays; or Authorship in Outline. Consisting of Condensed Treatises on popular subjects, with references to sources of information, and directions how to enlarge them into Essays, or expand them into Lectures. Fully elucidated by example as well as precept. By Christol Ogden.

In this work is a thorough analysis of some SEVENTY prominent and popular subjects, with extended specimens of the method of enlarging them into Essays and Lectures.

The following interesting topics are separately and ably argued on both sides of the question, thus presenting also well digested matter for Debate, being on subjects of absorbing interest everywhere:—

  • Bi-Metalism.
  • Civil Service Reform.
  • Prohibition.
  • Is Marriage a Failure?
  • City and Country.
  • The Credit System.
  • Free Trade and Protection.
  • Capital Punishment.
  • Shall More or Less be Taught in Public Schools.

All the remaining subjects are equally thoroughly discussed, and form a valuable aid to the student in preparing compositions, essays, etc.

Paper 50 cts.
Bound in boards 75 cts.

Dick's Book of Toasts, Speeches and Responses. Containing Toasts and Sentiments for Public and Social Occasions, and specimen Speeches with appropriate replies suitable for the following occasions:

  • Public Dinners.
  • Social Dinners.
  • Convivial Gatherings.
  • Art and Professional Banquets.
  • Agricultural and Commercial Festivals.
  • Special Toasts for Ladies.
  • Christmas, Thanksgiving and other Festivals.
  • Friendly Meetings.
  • Weddings and their Anniversaries.
  • Army and Navy Banquets.
  • Patriotic and Political Occasions.
  • Trades' Unions and Dinners.
  • Benedicts' and Bachelors' Banquets.
  • Masonic Celebrations.
  • All Kinds of Occasions.

This work includes an instructive dissertation on the Art of making amusing After-dinner Speeches, giving hints and directions by the aid of which persons with only ordinary intelligence can make an entertaining and telling speech. Also, Correct Rules and Advice for Presiding at Table.

The use of this work will render a poor and diffident speaker fluent and witty—and a good speaker better and wittier, besides affording an immense fund of anecdotes, wit and wisdom, and other serviceable matter to draw upon at will.

Paper 30 cts.
Bound in boards 50 cts.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Clyx.com


Top of Page
Top of Page