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Title: Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O

Author: Various

Editor: Thomas B. Reed

Release Date: July 13, 2006 [EBook #18823]

Language: English

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MODERN ELOQUENCE

LIBRARY OF

AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES, LECTURES

OCCASIONAL ADDRESSES

[Illustration: REPRODUCTIONS OF MURAL DECORATIONS

FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON

"_JUSTICE_"

_Photo-engraving in colors after the original painting by George W.
Maynard_

This picture is one of a series of eight panels representing "The
Virtues"--Fortitude, Justice, Patriotism, Courage, Temperance, Prudence,
Industry, and Concord. The number of virtues to be represented was
limited to the number of panels, so the selection was necessarily
somewhat arbitrary. Each figure is about five and a half feet high, clad
in floating classic drapery, and represented to the spectator as
appearing before him in the air, without a support or background other
than the deep red of the wall. "Justice" holds the globe in one hand,
signifying the extent of her sway. In the other hand she holds a naked
sword upright, in token of the terribleness of her punishment.]

MODERN ELOQUENCE

EDITOR

THOMAS B REED

JUSTIN McCARTHY, ROSSITER JOHNSON, ALBERT ELLERY BERGH

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

VOLUME II

After-Dinner Speeches

E--O

GEO. L. SHUMAN & CO.
CHICAGO
Copyright, 1903
JOHN R. SHUMAN

_COMMITTEE OF SELECTION_

EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Author of "The Man Without a
Country."

JOHN B. GORDON, Former United States Senator.

NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, Associate Editor "International
Library of Famous Literature."

JAMES B. POND, Manager Lecture Bureau; Author of "Eccentricities
of Genius."

GEORGE MCLEAN HARPER, Professor of English Literature,
Princeton University.

LORENZO SEARS, Professor of English