The cardinal rule is that a speaker learns to speak by speaking, hence a
careful reading and study of these speeches will do much to develop the
student's taste for correct literary and oratorical form.

GRENVILLE KLEISER.
New York City,
August, 1919.




CONTENTS


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INTRODUCTION--Aims and Purposes of Speaking--_Grenville Kleiser_ 11

After-Dinner Speaking--_James Russell Lowell_ 29

England, Mother of Nations--_Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 37

The Age of Research--_William Ewart Gladstone_ 44

Address of Welcome--_Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 52

Good-Will to America--_Sir William Harcourt_ 65

The Qualities That Win--_Charles Sumner_ 71

The English-Speaking Race--_George William Curtis_ 88