  A Adams, Charles Fallen, 185 Adeler, Max, 141 A-feared of a Gal, 237 Afternoon, One, 196 Agnes, I Lore Thee!, 81 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 47 Almost Beyond Endurance, 89 Amateur Night, 98 Amsbary, Wallace Bruce, 107 And She Cried, 68 Anstey, F., 210 At Five-o'clock Tea, 143 At the Restaurant, 235 Aux Italiens, 322 B Bachelor Sews on a Button, How a, 154 Bailey, James M., 57 Baine, William, 282 Banging a Sensational Novelist, 83 Barbara Frietchie, Parody on, 137 Bary Jade, Lides to, 168 Becky Miller, 115 Before and After, 139 Belagcholly Days, 93 Bengaugh, J. W., 110 Beyond Endurance, Almost, 89 Big Mistake, A, 129 Big Words, Don't Use, 163 Billy of Nebraska, 110 Blackstonian Circumlocution, His, 233 Blossom, Henry M., Jr., 152 Book Agent, The Merchant and the, 134 Boss, John C., 247 Bounding the United States, 101 Boy, Dot Leetle, 69 Boy, Papa and the, 208 Bradley, Mary E., 154 Break, Break, Break, 277 Bridegroom's Toast, The, 203 Brooks, Fred Emerson, 40 Burbank, 261 Burdette, Robert J., 199 Burton, Richard, 267 Byron, 269 C Candidate, The, 193 Carcassonne, 314 Card, The C'rrect, 300 Cards, Life Compared to a Game of, 289 Carlotta Mia, 228 Casey at the Bat, 147 Casuistry, Cupid's, 39 Cato's Soliloquy on Immortality, 311 Chance, They Met by, 203 "Charlie Must Not Ring To-night", 169 Checkers, A Friendly Game of, 150 Christopher Columbus, 155 Circumlocution, His Blackstonian, 233 Coles, Cynthia, 146 Como, 319 Content, I Am, 274 Coon's Lullaby, The, 136 Corydon, 47 Counting Eggs, 86 Counting One Hundred, 57 Crooked Mouth Family, The, 122 C'rrect Card, The, 300 Cupid's Casuistry, 39 Curfew, The Elocutionist's, 24 Cyclopeedy, The, 239 D Dandy Fifth, The, 293 Da 'Mericana Girl, 114 D'Arcy, H. Antoine, 306 Davis, Daniel Webster, 49 Dead Kitten, The, 33 Desprez, F., 284 Dialectic Sketch, A Lancashire, 232 Dickens, Charles, 216 Difficulty of Riming, The, 179 Doctor Marigold, 216 Dog und der Lobster, Der, 102 Don't Use Big Words, 163 Dot lambs Vot Mary Haf Got, 112 Dot Leedle Boy, 69 Double, and How He Undid Me, My, 171 Drummond, W. H., 271 Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 35, 153 Dundreary's Letter, Lord, 131 Dunne, Finlay Peter, 73 Dutchman's Serenade, The, 220 E Eagle's Song, The, 275 Earl King, The, 313 Echo, 244 Edwards, H. S., 44 Ehrmann, Max, 98 Eggs, Counting, 86 Elocutionist's Curfew, The, 24 Enchanted Shirt, The, 183 Endurance, Almost Beyond, 89 Engineer's Story, The, 303 Eve of Waterloo, The, 269 F Face Upon the Floor, The, 306 Faith, The Ship of, 187 Fairies' Tea, The, 85 Familiar Lines, 149 Fan, A Lesson with the, 50 Feller, A little, 126 Father's Way, 272 Fiend, The Weather, 34 Fifteen Minutes, Her, 28 Finnigan to Flannigan, 175 Fiske, John, 101 Five-o'clock Tea, At, 143 Flannigan, Finnigan to, 175 Flowers, The Funeral of the, 309 Fly, The, 156 Foolin', Quit Your, 250 Fool's Prayer, The, 268 Foxes' Tails, The, 29 Freckled-face Girl, The, 96 Funeral of the Flowers, The, 309 G Gal, A-feared of a, 237 Gassaway, F. H., 293 Georga Washingdone, 113 Gib Him One ub Mine, 49 Gilbert, W. S., 157 Gillinan, S. W., 175 Girl, The Freckled-face, 96 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 313 Gorilla, The, 82 Grape-seed, 190 Greek Meets Greek, When, 140 H Hale, Edward Everett, 171 Hammock, Romance of a, 173 Harbour, J. L., 208 Harp of a Thousand Strings, The, 177 Hat in the Pit, The Obstructive, 210 Hatton, Henry, 104 Hay, John, 183 He Laughed Last, 103 Heaton, John L., 160 Henry the Fifth's Wooing, 254 Hens, Lavery's, 201 He Wanted to Know, 188 Her Fifteen Minutes, 28 His Blackstonian Circumlocution, 233 His Leg Shot Off, 224 Hood, Thomas, 78 Hopkins' Last Moments, 84 How a Bachelor Sews on a Button, 154 Hullo, 213 Huntley, Stanley, 204 I I Am Content, 274 Idyl on "Grass," A Spring, 52 Idyl, A Twilight, 199 If I Can Be By Her, 65 If We Had the Time, 267 I Knew He Would Come if I Waited, 76 "Imph-M", 124 Ingalls, John J., 312 Introducin' the Speecher, 54 Introduction, An, 177 Irish Philosopher, The, 91 Irving, Minna, 68 Irwin, Wallace, 229 Italiens, Aux, 322 I Tol' Yer So, 160 J Joke, Leaving Out the, 238 Julie Plante, The Wreck of the, 271 K Khan, The, 225 Katie's Answer, 79 Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell, 234 Keep A'goin'!, 145 Kerr, Joe, 161 King, Byron W., 42 King, Benjamin Franklin, 65 Kiser, S. E., 95 Kitten, The Dead, 33 Kleiser, Grenville, 60 L Lamb, The Original, 95 Lambs Vot Mary Haf Got, Dot, 112 Lampton, W. J., 39 Lancashire Dialectic Sketch, A, 232 Lariat Bill, 192 Lasca, 284 Last Moments, Hopkins', 84 Laughed Last, He, 103 Laughton, James L., 251 Lavery's Hens, 201 Leacock, Stephen, 25 Leaving Out the Joke, 238 Leg Shot Off, His, 224 Lesson with the Fan, A, 50 Letter, Lord Dundreary's, 131 Lever, Charles, 222 Life Compared to a Game of Cards, 289 Lides to Bary Jade, 168 Lincoln, On, 296 Lisp, 202 Little Stowaway, The, 296 Loomis, Charles Battell, 167 Lord Dundreary's Letter, 131 Lover's Quarrel, A, 146 Love's Moods and Senses, 77 "L," Song of the, 60 Lullaby, 153 Lullaby, The Coon's, 136 M Macaulay, 277 MacDonald, George, 118 Malone, Walter, 312 Malone, Widow, 222 Mammy's Li'l Boy, 44 Man Who Will Make a Speech, The, 227 Mansfield, Richard, 275 Marketing, 52 Married Life, Ups and Downs of, 121 Mason, She Would be a, 251 Masson, Tom, 28 Mayor, Pat and the, 116 McCarthy and McManus, 66 Melpomenus Jones, 25 Merchant and the Book Agent, The, 134 Meredith, Owen, 322 'Mericana Girl, Da, 114 Miller, Joaquin, 319 Mistake, A Big, 129 Mr. Dooley on the Grip, 73 Mr. Potts' Story, 141 Modern Romance, 152 Morgan, Carrie Blake, 51 Morris, Joshua S., 177 Mule Stood on der Steamboat Deck, Der, 164 Mumbles Head, The Women of, 279 Musicians, The, 315 My Double, and How He Undid Me, 171 N "Nancy Bell," The Yarn of the, 157 Nesbit, W. D., 24 New School Reader, The, 165 Nocturnal Sketch, A, 78 Norah Murphy and the Spirits, 104 Nothing Suited Him, 126 Not In It, 198 Nye, Bill, 193 O Oak und der Vine, Der, 185 Oatmobile, The, 87 Obstructive Hat in the Pit, The, 210 Old Daddy Turner, 290 One Afternoon, 196 On Lincoln, 296 On the Rappahannock, 317 Opie Read, 107 Opportunity, 312 Opportunity, An, 190 Opportunity's Reply, 312 Oracle, The Village, 62 Organist, The Volunteer, 287 Original Lamb, The, 95 Our Railroads, 245 P Papa and the Boy, 208 Parody on Barbara Frietchie, 137 Passion, The Ruling, 219 Pat and the Mayor, 116 Pat's Reason, 249 Philosopher, The Irish, 91 Phrases, Slang, 133 Poor Was Mad, The, 167 Prayer, The Fool's, 268 Presentation of the Trumpet, 162 Proof Positive, 90 Q Quarrel, A Lover's, 146 Quarreled, They Never, 58 Quit Your Foolin', 250 R Race Question, The, 35 Railroads, Our, 245 Rainy Day Episode, A, 75 Rappahannock, On the, 317 Reader, The New School, 165 Reason, Pat's, 249 Reason Why, The, 154 Rehearsing for Private Theatricals, 204 Reply, Opportunity's, 312 Restaurant, At the, 235 Riley, James Whitcomb, 23, 69, 89 Riming, The Difficulty of, 179 Ring To-night, Charlie Must Not, 169 "Rip Van Winkle," Scenes from, 261 Rivals, Scenes from the, 258 Robin Tamson's Smiddy, 127 Roche, James Jeffrey, 206 Rodger, Alexander, 127 Romance, Modern, 152 Romance of a Hammock, 173 Ruling Passion, The, 219 S Saint Crispian's Day, 299 Saxe, John G., 244 Scott, Clement, 279 Sensational Novelist, Banging a, 83 Serenade, The Dutchman's, 220 Sermon, A Short, 231 She Would Be a Mason, 251 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 258 Sherwood, M. E. W., 314 Ship of Faith, The, 187 Shirt, The Enchanted, 183 Short Encore, A, 170 Short Sermon, A, 231 Sill, Edward Rowland, 268 Sims, George R., 300 Siviter, William H., 219 Slang Phrases, 133 Smiddy, Robin Tamson's, 127 Smiley, Joseph Bert, 181 Song, The Eagle's, 275 Song of the "L.", 60 So Was I, 181 "'SpÄcially Jim", 80 Speecher, Introducin' the, 54 Speech, The Man Who Will Make a, 227 Spirits, Norah Murphy and the, 104 Spring Idyl on "Grass," A, 52 Stanton, Frank L., 145 Story, The Engineer's, 303 Stowaway, The Little, 296 Stuttering Umpire, The, 225 Sylva, Carmen, 274 T Talmadge, T. De Witt, 309 Telephone, The Dutchman's, 214 Tell and His Boy, William, 282 Tennyson, Alfred, 277 Thayer, Phineas, 147 Theatricals, Rehearsing for Private, 204 They Never Quarreled, 58 Thorpe, Rosa H., 303 Time, If We Had the, 267 Toast, The Bridegroom's, 203 Total Annihilation, 120 Train, Misses the, 23 Tramp, The, 292 Trumpet, Presentation of the, 162 Turner, Old Daddy, 290 Twain, Mark, 177 Twilight Idyl, A, 199 U Undertow, The, 51 United States, Bounding the, 101 Umpire, The Stuttering, 225 Ups and Downs of Married Life, The, 121 Usual Way, The, 125 V V-a-s-e, The, 206 Vassar Girl, The, 229 Village Choir, The, 108 Village Oracle, The, 62 Virginius, 277 Volunteer Organist, The, 287 W Wade, Morris, 143 Wakin' the Young 'Uns, 247 Watchin' the Sparkin', 40 Waterloo, The Eve of, 269 Waterman, Nixon, 52 Way, Father's, 272 Way, The Usual, 125 Way of a Woman, The, 42 Weather Fiend, The, 34 When Greek Meets Greek, 140 When Ma Lady Yawns, 39 When Pa Was a Boy, 95 When the Woodbine Turns Red, 38 Whitman, Walt, 296 Widow Malone, 222 William Tell and His Boy, 282 Williamson, H. G., 76 Willie, 98 Wind and the Moon, The, 118 Woman, The Ways of a, 42 Women of Mumbles Head, The, 279 Woodbine Turns Red, When the, 38 Wreck of the Julie Plante, The, 271 Y Yacht Club Speech, The, 43 Yarn of the "Nancy Bell," The, 157 Yawns, When Ma Lady, 39 "You Git Up!", 161 How to Develop in Speaking By GRENVILLE KLEISER Author of "How to Speak in Public." Introduction by Lewis O. Brastow, D.D., Professor Emeritus, Yale Divinity School This new book gives practical suggestions and exercises for Developing Power and Personality in Speaking. It has many selections for practise. POWER.—Power of Voice—Power of Gesture—Power of Vocabulary-Power of Imagination—Power of English Style—Power of Illustration—Power of Memory—Power of Extempore Speech—Power of Conversation—Power of Silence—Power of a Whisper—Power of the Eye. PERSONALITY.—More Personality for the Lawyer—The Salesman—The Preacher—The Politician—The Physician—The Congressman—The Alert Citizen. "I give it my hearty commendation. 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