FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   355   356   357   358   359   360   361   362   363   364   365   >>  
e technic of voice and action. In illustration of the principles full selections as well as illustrative passages are given, together with the necessary explanation, _xiv_ + _250 pages_ BRITISH AND AMERICAN ELOQUENCE Accounts of the lives and public careers of twenty-two noted British and American orators together with selections from their greatest speeches. The purpose is to point out by concrete example the abstract principles of public speaking which should guide the beginner. The book aims to select, adapt, and utilize in a single volume such helpful material as the student of public speaking can find elsewhere only in many separate volumes. _403 pages, illustrated_ CHOICE READINGS FROM POPULAR AND STANDARD AUTHORS The number, variety, and interest of the selections are noteworthy. They include prose and verse from a wide range of writers. Selections are grouped in fourteen divisions, according to the nature of the subject matter, _xix_ + _729 pages_ STANDARD SELECTIONS Edited by ROBERT I. FULTON, THOMAS C. TRUEBLOOD, and EDWIN P. TRUEBLOOD The purpose of the book is to provide material in poetry and oratory that has never before appeared in books of this character, and to stimulate interest in the authors represented. Nearly two hundred selections of varying character are included. _510 pages_ GINN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS EXTEMPORE SPEAKING By EDWIN DUBOIS SHURTER, Associate Professor of Public Speaking in the University of Texas 12mo, cloth, 178 pages This manual provides an analysis of the art of extempore speaking, together with specific examples and exercises. It is distinctly modern in treatment, although drawing also from the rich fund of material in classical and modern literature. MASTERPIECES OF MODERN ORATORY By EDWIN DUBOIS SHURTER 12mo, cloth, 369 pages These fifteen orations, edited with introductions and notes, are intended to furnish models for students of oratory, argumentation, and debate. The orators represented are Burke, Webster, Lincoln, Phillips, Curtis, Grady, Watterson, Daniel, Porter, Reed, Beveridge, Cockran, Schurz, Spalding, and Van Dyke. VOCAL EXPRESSION IN SPEECH By HENRY EVARTS GORDON, late Professor of Public Speaking in the University of Iowa 12mo, cloth, viii + 315 pages A fresh and stimulating treatise on the fundamentals of public speaking from its cultural side, intended primarily for college classes but easily adapt
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   355   356   357   358   359   360   361   362   363   364   365   >>  



Top keywords:

public

 
selections
 

speaking

 
material
 

STANDARD

 

interest

 

purpose

 

principles

 

modern

 

University


DUBOIS

 

character

 
represented
 

SHURTER

 

Professor

 

Speaking

 
Public
 

oratory

 
TRUEBLOOD
 

intended


orators
 

extempore

 

specific

 

examples

 

analysis

 

manual

 

exercises

 

distinctly

 

classical

 

literature


drawing

 

stimulating

 

treatment

 
SPEAKING
 
classes
 

EXTEMPORE

 

PUBLISHERS

 
COMPANY
 

easily

 

college


primarily

 

treatise

 

technic

 

fundamentals

 

Associate

 
cultural
 

MASTERPIECES

 
Beveridge
 

Cockran

 

Porter