FOR USE IN

Colleges and Schools

AND BY

PRIVATE STUDENTS.

BY

J. W. SHOEMAKER, A. M.,

Late President of the National School of Elocution and Oratory.

ENLARGED

WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF SELECTIONS FOR PRACTICE.

We could not allow him an orator who had the best thoughts,
and who knew all the rules of rhetoric, if he had not acquired the
art of using them.-DRYDen.

PHILADELPHIA

The Penn Publishing Company

1889

COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY

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To the Students

OF THE

NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY,

TO WHOSE

ENTHUSIASM, FAITHFULNESS AND LOYALTY

THE AUTHOR IS INDEBTED FOR SO MUCH STRENGTH AND INSPIRATION IN HIS WORK,

AND WHOSE MEMORY HE CHERISHES WITH

NEXT TO A PARENT'S LOVE,

THIS BOOK

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.