The Model Speaker and Reciter: Being a Standard Work on Composition and Oratory ... ; Together with a Peerless Collection of Readings and Recitations from Authors of World-wide Renown ... ; the Whole Forming an Unrivaled Self-educator for Young People

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Contents

HOW TO WRITE A COMPOSITION
17
How to Acquire a Captivating Style
23
An Amusing Exercise
29
Practice in Simple Sentences
34
The Note of Interrogation
40
Exercises in Easy Narratives
46
SPECIMENS OF ELEGANT COMPOSITION
67
Our Country
72
PATRIOTIC RECITATIONS
137
General Wheeler at Santiago J L Gordon 140 The BattleField
149
Our Flag
156
McIlrath of Malate
158
DESCRIPTIVE AND DRAMATIC RECITATIONS
167
The Captain and the Fireman W B Collison 172 A Felous Cell
194
My Vesper Song
200
Nathan Hale the Martyr Spy I H Brown 184 Phillips of Pelhamville Alexander Anderson
207

Puritans of the Sixteenth Century Lord Macaulay
73
SUBJECTS FOR COMPOSITIONS
84
How to Read and Recite
113
RECITATIONS WITH LESSON TALKS
123
Grandmothers Chair
130
Centennial Oration Henry Arinitt Brown 211 The New Woman
219
Eulogium on South Carolina Robert T Hayne 216 Appeal to the Hungarians Louis Kossuth
226
A SchoolDay
232
The Dutchmans Serenade 236 A Winning Company
246
Larry ODee W W Fink 243 My Parrot Emma H Webb
252

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