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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY LESSONS.

1.

2.

ON the speaking

of speeches at schools,

On the acting of plays at schools,

3. Rules for expressing with propriety, the prin-

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cipal passions and humors, which occur

in reading or public speaking,

Rules respecting elocution,

Walker,

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9. The partial judge,

10. The sick lion, the fox and the wolf,

11. Dishonesty punished,

12. The picture,

13 The two bees,

14. Beauty and deformity,

15. Remarkable instance of friendship,

16. Dionysius and Damocles,

17. Character of Cataline,

18. Avarice and Luxury,

19. Hercules' choice,

20. Will Honeycomb's Spectator,

21. On good breeding,

22. Address to a young student,

Dodsley's Fables,

Percival's Tales,

Art of Speaking,

Art of Thinking,

Dodsley's Fables,

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23. Advantages of, and motives to cheerfulness, Spectator,