THE ELOCUTIONIST'S ANNUAL NUMBER 3 CONTAINING THE LATEST AND BEST SELECTIONS FOR COMPILED BY J. W. SHOEMAKER, A. M. ENLARGED EDITION PHILADELPHIA The Penn Publishing Company 1889 Entered according to Act of Congress. in the year 1875, by J. W. SHOEMAKER & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. PREFACE. то that large, appreciative and generous Public, to whose pleasure and profit, we shall ever strive to minister, and whose wants, varied and numerous as they are, we hope to be able more and more to satisfy, we would express our thanks for the high degree of favor accorded us in the past, and say, in presenting NUMBER THREE OF THE ELOCUTIONIST'S ANNUAL, that we have endeavored to answer every request and respond to every suggestion bearing upon the compilation of this series of choice selections. 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. While we have sought to furnish, as heretofore, exercises in pathos, eloquence, tragedy and humor, and endeavored to meet every possible circumstance in which a "piece" might be needed, we have given the fireside a special place in this Number. 70671 པ་ |