Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Patriotic Recitations and Readings: All Being Suitable for Home, School, Lodge, Club, and Special Day Celebrations
The need of better readers and speakers was never more urgent than now. Deficiency in expressive reading and effective speaking has been observed and deplored for years. Within the last score of years, schools of oratory, elocution, acting, Delsarte, physical and vocal culture and many institutions of less pretentious title have demonstrated the assertion that good reading is attainable by the masses. The day will never come when the memorizing and re citing oi poems and choice prose efforts of our best writers will cease to be popular with our American youth. It is a part of our inheritance to preserve the utterances of the men and women who have, by their voice and pen, done much to advance the spirit of truth, heroism and patriotism - the chief characteristic of our American manhood and womanhood. This book therefore is pre sented to the public in Obedience to that trite commercial maxim, The demand will summon the supply. The art of oratory is best acquired by the committing and delivery of approved examples of speeches and orations; hence the aspirant for great oratorical skill should count no labor lost that requires much study and practice of what others have written or delivered. Clay, Fox, Benton, Bryan, Calhoun, Patrick Henry, Burke, Phillips, Lincoln and Sheridan, as well as the great orators of antiquity - Demosthenes, Cicero, Isocrates and Marc Antony, owed their wonderful elocutionary powers to this practice, and he who would emulate their success must be willing to pay the price therefor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
