ELOCUTIONIST AND RECITER · COMPRISING PRACTICAL HINTS ON PUBLIC READING AND AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF SPEECHES, DRAMATIC SCENES, SELECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORS, PAST AND PRESENT WITH ORIGINAL HINTS ON ELOCUTION By J. E. CARPENTER, M.A., PH.D. NEW AND extended editioN LONDON FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1902 PREFACE. The Popular Elocutionist and Reciter has been so long and so favourably known to the public, that anything in the nature of an introduction to, or justification of, its latest edition may well be deemed superfluous. Nevertheless, it may be briefly stated that the aim of the editor in Part I. was to provide a few brief, clear, and practical hints on the Art of Elocution, such as might be assimilated without difficulty, and put into practice either on the public platform, in the schoolroom, or in the family circle. The importance to all of at least some degree of efficiency in this art is discussed in Chapter I., and need not be enlarged upon here; but it may be mentioned that for the rules upon which Chapters II. to VI. were based, the editor was mainly indebted to his friend, the late Henry Marston, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. In Part II., which constitutes the greater part of the work, there is provided a very large and wide selection of prose and poetical pieces suitable for reading or reciting in gatherings of diverse character, in public or in private. Here will be found representative extracts from our best writers; specimens of the oratory of our most eloquent and powerful speakers in the senate, the pulpit, and the hall of justice; scenes and dialogues from the best plays of our famous dramatists; |