By Robert I. Fulton, late of Ohio Wesleyan University, and Thomas C. Trueblood, University of Michigan ESSENTIALS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING(Second Edition) This book shows the relation of intellect, feeling, and gesture to the elements of effective expression in oratorical and dramatic art. It treats the elements of expression in their simplest and most natural order, showing their application to the various sentiments and emotions, and provides exercises in the technic of voice and action. In illustration of the principles full selections as well as illustrative passages are given, together with the necessary explanation, xiv + 250 pages BRITISH AND AMERICAN ELOQUENCEAccounts 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, illustrated CHOICE READINGS FROM POPULAR AND STANDARD AUTHORSThe 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 SELECTIONSEdited 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 SPEAKINGBy Edwin Dubois Shurter, Associate Professor of Public Speaking in the University of Texas 12mo, cloth, 178 pages This manual provides an analysis 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 classical and modern literature. MASTERPIECES OF MODERN ORATORYBy 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, Cockran, Schurz, Spalding, and Van Dyke. VOCAL EXPRESSION IN SPEECHBy 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 classes 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 illustrative selections. GINN AND COMPANY Publishers BOOKS IN PUBLIC SPEAKINGTHE MAKING OF ARGUMENTSBy 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 analysis 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 analytical investigation, sifting of evidence, brief-drawing, and persuasive adaptation are clearly illustrated 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 ENGLISHBy 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 substituting 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 SPEAKINGELEMENTS OF PUBLIC SPEAKINGBy Harry Garfield Houghton, University of Wisconsin xi + 333 pages This textbook aims to teach the student,
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 classes 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. THE BRIEF-MAKER'S NOTEBOOKBy Warren C. Shaw, Dartmouth College vii + 240 pages, in Biflex Binder "The Brief-Maker's Notebook" presents a logical system for analyzing debaters' propositions and supplies a blank form of brief based upon this system. It is devised to accomplish several aims:
The material consists of sets of forty pages each. Each set is designed for the complete handling of one proposition. GINN AND COMPANY Publishers |