THE NEW CENTURY SPEAKER AND WRITER

With Etiquette for All Occasions

For Home, School and Platform

A Standard Work on Elocution, Composition and Etiquette

The Best Selections of the Greatest Writers of This and Other Countries

Including

Humorous, Pathetic and Descriptive Reading, Tableaux, Dialogues, Drills and Recitations with Musical Accompaniment

PROGRAMS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS...

An Unrivaled Self-Educator for Young People

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Author - T. EDWARD HOLLINSHED

Publisher - American Book and Bible House, Philadelphia

Publication Date - Copyright 1901 by Charles A. Doe

Type of Book – Hardcover,  454 pages, with black and white photographic illustrations and a few color ones

Condition - Binding slightly worn, especially at corners and bottom of spine.  Various small nicks in paste on image and scratches in linen, binding a bit loose, all pages in very good condition.  Overall good

Chapters Include - Elocution--What is It?; Recitations with Lesson Talks; Recitations with Musical Accompaniments; Patriotic Recitations; Moral and Didactic Recitations; Sunday-School Selections; Oratorical and Sublime; Pathetic Recitations; Humorous and Dialectic Recitations; Temperance Recitations; Holiday Recitations; Encores; Little Folks' Speaker;  How to Speak;  Great Orations by Famous Orators (including George Washington's inaugural address); How to Write (including Quotation Marks, Simile, Apostrophe, Metonymy and Synecdoche, etc.); Proverbs; Specimens for Elegant Composition; Famous Quotations; Letter Writing; Dialogues, Plays and Tableaux; Suggestions for Debating Societies; and Etiquette for All Occasions (including Club Rules, Refreshments, Etiquette of the Ball Room, Opera Dress, Weddings, etc.); among others

$55.00

[plus tax and postage]

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