Reading and Speaking: Familiar Talks to Young Men Who Would Speak Well in Public; Designed as a Text-Book for Colleges and Higher Schools, and Also for General Use (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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This collection of suggestions to would be speakers consists of most informal talks on matters of importance to all young men; for we are a nation of speech makers. Wendell Phillips used to say that as soon as the Yankee baby could sit up in his cradle he called the nursery to order, and proceeded to address the house. There are some rules in the book, but they are those which my experience has taught me ought to be known by every Speaker; and as there are not so many as to be burden some, I trust that they may be learned by every young man who has this book.

I have put upon these pages suggestions not usually found in print. Some of them may seem trivial; but I have been making them to students in the class-room over and over again. Why not print them?

I do not Claim any originality, or to say what has not been said in one way or another by many teachers. In deed, there is no new road to successful public speaking. But I have tried to group together, in small compass and convenient form, suggestions, rules, hints, encouragements, warnings, examples, illustrations, all having bearing on the noble art of oratory, and all likely to be helpful.

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