Excerpt from The Popular Elocutionist and Reciter Penny Readings in Prose and Verse, which extended to twelve volumes of 256 pages each. A Library Edition in five volumes was subsequently issued, and of these two works about a quarter of a million copies have been disposed of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Elocutionist's Annual, 1889: Containing the Latest and Best Selections for Reading or Recitation If each Number contains a few of the old, standard and familiar pieces, it is because a collection such as we propose would be incomplete without them. This volume, however, will be found to contain a larger number of new selections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Treasury: A Carefully Compiled Collection of Recitations for Families and Schools, From the Repertoire of Alfred J. Knight, the Popular Elocutionist The compiler of the treasury does not claim that it is a work upon elocution it is published more as an incentive to that study. And to create a love for elocution as a science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Greening's Popular Reciter and the Art of Elocution and Public Speaking: Being Simple Explanation of the Various Branches of Elocution; Together With Lessons for Self-Instruction In issuing a new edition of this book I am hopeful that it may meet with the same measure of success which was accorded the first edition when it was placed before the public in 1897. The Press unanimously adopted the tone of Sir Sidney, indeed, which was nothing but "Praise! Praise! Praise!" from almost every quarter of the globe. Communications reflecting credit on my efforts to make the art of elocution more evident to the ordinary reader were received by me from all parts of the kingdom; and, acting on several kindly suggestions, I have tried to embody the principles of the art with several short studies of recitals, set out in such method that the merest tyro may, with study and practice, grasp the essentials of the art of reciting. As "Brevity is the soul of wit," I come to that point which should form the primary subject in the education of a dramatic student - namely, elocution. To many persons it is a dead art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.