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+ Ss gt - — he . Washington, Alene Rising, ef ~ . H Se ral a * “tem, Fs Wumbers 1 to 24, inclusive. —- oe Dime Americax Speaker, No. 1. J. Jeboom’s Oration, A Dutch Cure, The Weather, The Heated Term, Philosophy APE OOy Young America, Birthday of Washington, Plea for the Maine Law, Not on the Battlefield, The Italian Struggle, Independence, An Old Balla Our Country, Penny Wise, Pound Fool- The Equality of Man, True Cleanliness, lish, Character of the Revo’n, | Sat’d’y Night’s Enjoy ‘ts, The Fruits of the War, ‘*In a Just Cause,”’ The Sewing-Machine, No Peace with Oppres- Crue Manhood, sion, ‘The Mystery of Life, 1A Tale of a Mouse, The Ups and Downs, A Thanksgiving Sermon, The Truly Great, The Cost of Riches, THE D at | Karly Retiring and Ris’g, | Great Lives Imperishable | A. Ward’s Oration, | The Prophecy forthe Y’r True Nationality, Unfinished Problems, ‘Our Natal Day, Honor to the Dead, ‘Solferino, | Immortality of Patriots, Antelligence the Basis of | Webster’s Polit’l System, The War, [Liberty, | A Vision in the Forum, Charge of ‘Light Brigade, | The Press, After the Battle, Woman's Rights, The Glass Railroad, Right of the Governed, (Case of Mr. Macbeth, | My Ladder, Prof, on Phrenology, | Woman, Annabel Lee, Alone. Washington's Name, | The Rebellion of 1861, The sailor Boy’s Syren, | Disunion. Dime National Speaker, No. 2. Union and its Results, } Ohio, Mur Country’s Future, | Oliver Hazard Perry, ‘The Statesman’s Labors, | Our Domain, True Immortality, Systems of Belief, Let the Childless Weep, | The Indian Chief, Our Country’s Glory, The Independent Farmer Union a Household, Mrs. Grammar’s Ball, Independence Bell, How the Money Comes, The Scholar’s Dignity, | Future of the Fashions, The Cycles of Progress, Loyalty to Liberty, A Christmas Chant, Our Country First, Last, S.ability of Christianity, and Always, The True Higher Law, British Influence, The One Great Need, Defense of Jefferson, The Ship and the Bird, National Hatreds, Tecumseh’s Speech, Murder Will Out, Territorial Expansion, Strive for the Best, Martha Hopkins, Karly Rising, The Bashful Man’s Story,,, Deeds of Kindness, The Matter-of-Fact,Man, | Gates of Sleep, Rich and Poor, The Bugle, Seeing the Eclipse, _A Hoodish Gem, Beauties of the Law, Purity of the Struggle, Ge-lang! Git Up, | Old Age, The Rats of Life, Beautiful and True, Creowning Glory of U.S., | The Worm of the Still, Three Fools, | Man and the Infinite, Language of the Eagle, Washington, | The Deluge. (Our Great Inheritance, ‘Eulogy on Henry Clay, 7 . , Dime Patriotic Speaker, No. 3. History of Our Flag, T. F. Meagher’s Address, We Owe to the Union, Lincoln’s Message, Last Speech of Stephen A. Douglas, Great Bell Roland, The New Year and the King Cotton, Rattle Anthem, The Ends of Peace, Freedom the Watehword Crisis of Our Nation, Duty of Christian Pa- triots, Turkey Dan’s ‘ration, A Fearless Pleu, The Onus of Slavery, America to the World, Love of Country, Right of Self-Preserva- Our Cause, [tion, A Kentuckian’s appeal, Kentucky Steadfast, Timidity is Treason, The Alarum, April 15, 1851, The Spirit of *61, The fe pcig tm Heritage, The Trish Element, Train’s Speech, Christy’s Speech, Let Me Alone, Brigand-ier-General, The Draft, Union Square Speeches, The Union, A Foreigner’s Tribute, Our Country’s Call, The Little Zouave, The Story of an Oak Tree, | Catholic Cathedra L-e-g On My Leg, The “ Speculators,” Dime Comic Speaker, No. 4. Klebeyergoss on the War, ' A Song of Woe, Age Blintly Considered, | Ward’s Trip to Richm’d, Parody, The Mountebank, Compound Interest, A Sermon on the Feet, The Wasp and the Bee Comic Grammar, No. i, I’m Not a Single Man, A. Ward’s Advice, Old Dog Jock, Buzfuz on Pickwick, The Fishes’ Toilet, Romeo and Juliet, Brian O’Linn, Happiness, Crockett to Office-seekers Dogs, Who Is My Opponent? Pop, Political Stump Speech, A Texan Eulogium, Comic Grammar, No, 2, How to be a Fireman, Farewell to the Bottle, The United States, The Cork Leg, Puff’s Acc’tof Himself, | The Smack in School . Practical Phrenology, Slick’s Definition of Wife, Beautiful, Tale of a Hat, Cabbage, The Debating Club, Erecgrecaic People,* A Dutch Sermon, What is a Bachelor Like? | Lecture on Locomotion, ‘Sunny Folks, Mrs, Jaudle on Umbr’lla. A h; a . oi ag : : oon Oe! ATS rey “a; ’ J ewer sau see ce ” a hs frees FO to + * = —: | SEC. L 1 MLK Tr ae at bt Each Speaker, 100 pages 12mo., containing from 50 to 75 pieces. Dime Elocutionist, No. 5. in Enunciation; How to Avoid Them, Special Rules and Observations. SEC. Il. Tar Art or Oratory. Sheridan’s List of the Passions: Tranquillity, Cheerfulness, Mirth, Raillery, Buffoonery, Joy, Delight, Gravity, In- quiry, Attention, Modesty, Perplexity, Pity, Grief, Melancholy, Despair, Fear, Shame, Remorse, Courage, Boasting, Pride, Obstinacy, Authority, Commanding, Forbidding, Affirming, Denying, Difference, Acreeing, Exhorting, Judging, Approv- ing, Acquitting, Condemping, Teaching, Pardon- ing, Arguing, Dismissing, Refusing, Granting, De- pendence, Veneration, Hope, Desire, Love, Re spect, Giving, Wonder, Admiration, Gratitude, Cu riosity, Persuasioy’, Tempting, Promising, Affecta- tion, Sloth, Intoxication, Anger, etc. SEC. 01. Tur Component ELEMENTS OF AN ORA TION.—Rules of Composition as applied to Words and Phrases, viz.: As applied to Sentences, viz.: Length of Sentence, Clearness, Unity, Strength. Figures of Speech; the Exordium, the Narration, the Proposition, the Confirmation, the Refutation, the Peroration. SEC. TV. REPRESENTATIVE EXERCISES IN PROSE AND Verse.—Transition; A Plea for the Ox; Falstaff’s Soliloquy on Honor; the Burial of Lincoln; the Call and Response; the Bayonet Charge; History of a Life; the Bugle; the Bells; Byron; Macbeth and the Dagger; Hamlet’s Soliloquy; Old Things; Look Upward; King William Rufus; the Eye; an Essa Onto Musik; Discoveries of Galileo. SEC. V. OBSERVATIONS OF Goop AUTHORITIES. Dime Humorous Speaker, No. 8. A Sad Story, Poetry Run Mad, A String of Onions, Right Names, A Tragic Story, Scientific Lectures, Cats, The Ager, | Courtship, The Cockney, Debt, The Codfish, Devils, Fate of Sergeant Thin, LES... |Union, | The Features’ Quarrel, Hamerican Voodchuck, The Harp of a Thousand Strings, The Last of the Sarpints, Gottlieb Klebcyergoss, The March to Moscow, Schlackenlichter’s snake, | The Mysterious Guest, Hosea Biglow’s Opinions, | The Pump, How the Money Goes, The Sea-Serpent, Hun-ki-do-ri’s Fourth of | The Secret, July Oration, The Shoemaker, If you Mean No, Say No, | The Useful Doctor, Jo Bows on Leap Year, | The Waterfall Lay of the Henpecked, To the Bachelors’ Union Lot Skinner’s Elegy, League, Matrimony, United States Presidents, Nothing to Do, Vagaries of Popping the Old Caudle’s Umbrella, Question, Old Grimes’s Son, What I Wouldn't Be, Paddle Your Own Canoe, | Yankee Doodle Aladdin, Parody on ‘ Araby’s | Ze Moskeetare, Daughter,” | 1933, Dime Standard Speaker, No. 7. The World We Live In, John Burns, Gettysburg, Woman's Claims, No Sect in Heaven, Authors of our Liberty, | Miss Prude’s Tea-Party, The Real Conqueror, The Power of an Idea, The Citizen’s Heritage, The Beneficence of the Italy, Suffrage, [Sea, The Mechanic, Dream of the Revelers, Nature and Nainre'’s God | HowCyrus Laid the Cable Dow, Jr.’s Lectures, ‘zo and Echo, Fashionable Womeu, Fern Thistles, Good-Nature, aS | The Modern Good, [Sun, | The Prettiest Hand, Ossian’s Address to the | Paradoxical, 1777, | Little Jerry, the Miller, eorrence Bell | Foggy Thoughts, a ~ The Blarney Stone, The Student of Bonn, The Broken Household, The Bible, The Purse and the Sword My gt aes fe True Moral Courage, What is War? The Neck, The Ladies’ Man, Life, The Idler, The Unbeliever, , The Two Lives, The True Scholar, Judges not Infallible, Butter, Fanaticism, My Deborah Lee, Instability of Successful | The Race, Agriculture, The Pin and Needle, Ireland, The Modern Puritan, The People Always Con- | Immortality of the Soul, Music of Labor,.. [quer, | Occupation, Prussia and Austria, Heroism and Daring, Wishing, A Shot at the Decanter, Dime Stump Speaker, No. 8. Hon. J..M. Stubbs’ Views |/ The Limits to Happiness, on the Situation, Good-nature a Blessing, Hans Schwackheimer on! Sermon from Hard-shell (Crime, Woman’s Suffrage, Tail-enders, [ Baptist, All for a Nomination, The Value of Money, Old Ocean, {Sea, | Meteoric Disquisition, The Sea,the Sea, the open | Be Sure You are Right, Star Bangled Spanner, | Be of Good Chee Tr Stay Where You Belong, Crabbed Folks, [Shrew, Life’s What You Make Taming a Masculine Where’s My Money, Farmers, [Our Country Ss b from Conscience, |'The True Greatness 0 ’s Relation to Society | The Cold-water Man, AK WER OE a CE Ade Oe ee el Bs he le A os el he ls eh j PRINCIPLES OF TRUE ENUNCIATION.—Faults | A Dream, urity, Propriety, Precision. | | Popping Corn, a ee a. — —_ — ee eC ee C.-C eae See le SOeere™’E TO OOOO ZRS. ee ———aal Permanency of States, Astronomical, Liberty of Speech, The Moon, [zeng, New England and Union, | Duties of American Citi The Unseen Battlefield, {The Man, ‘ Plea for the Republic, Temptations of Cities, ‘ America, [Fallacy, | Broken Resolutions, ; “Right of Secession ’’ a | There is no Death. ; Life’s Sunset, Races, Human Nature, | A Fruitful Discourse, Lawyers, Wrongs of the Indians, Appealin behalf of Am, Miseries of War,| Liberty, A Lay Sermon, A Frenchman’s Dinner, 4 Unjust National Acqui’n, The Amateur Coachman, John Thompson’s Dau’r, House Cleaning, It Is Not Your Business, ‘ i . . — Dime Juvenile Speaker, No. 9. A Boy’s Philosophy, Flow the Raven Becemeé Hoe Out Your Row, | Black, Six-Year-Old’s Protest, | A Mother’s Work, The Suicidal Cat, | The same, A Valediction, | Who Rules, A Sheep Story, ) A Little Correspondent, One Good Turn Deserves | My Dream, | Another, | Rain, | I’ll Never Use Tobacco, ;} A Mosaic, The Editor, The Same, in rhyme, The Fairy Shoemaker, What Was Learned, Press On, The Horse, The Snake in the Grass, | The Old Bachelor, Tale of the Tropics, Prayer to Light, Bromley’s Speech, Little Jim, The Same, second extract | Angelina’s Lament, The Fisher's Child, Johnny Shrimps on Boots Shakspearian Scholar, | Mercy, A Maiden’s Psalm of Life, | Choice of Hours, A Mixture, Poor Richard’s Sayings, Plea for Skates, | Who Killed Tom Roper, ! Playing Ball, Nothing to Do ; Ah, Why, | Honesty Best Policy, ' Live for Something, " Heaven, Lay of the Hen-Pecked, | Ho for the Fields, | The Outside Dog, Fashion on the Brains Wolf and Lamb, | On Shanghais, Lion in Love, _A Smile, Frogs Asking for a King, | Casabianca, ; Sick Lion, Homeceopathic Soup, t Country and Town [I___e, | Nose and Eyes, t Man and Woman, | Malt, |Come, |A Hundred Wears to |The Madman and he; | Little Sermons, |Razor, Souffles on Electricity, The’'Two Cradles, | The Ocean Storm, Do Thy Little—Do it Wel _ Little Puss, | Base-Ball, [Wever, | Prescription. for Spring Home, The Lotus-Planter, Little Things. A Baby’s Soliloquy, Repentance, A Plea for Eggs, Humbug Patriotism, Night After Christmas, Short Legs, Shrimps on Amusements, Dime Spread-Eagle Speaker, No. 10, | Drum-head Sermons, _Schnitzerl's Philosopedis * Woman’s Rights,’ Luke Lather, The Hog, Jack Spratt, | New England Tragedy, The Ancient Bachelor, Jacob Whittle’s Speech, Digestion and Paradise, Jerks Prognosticates, Distinction’s Disadvant- | A Word with Snooks, Smith, fages, | Sut Lovengood, Gushalina Bendibus, A Mvle Ride, A Stock of Notions, Josh Billings on Buzzera, Speaking for the Sheriff, I] Trovatore, Daking a Shweat, Kissing in the Street Then and Now, Scandalous, Josh Billings’s Lecturng, Slightly Mixed, Doctor De Blister’s Ann't, The Office-seeke Consignments, Old Bachelors, Hard Lives, Woman, Dan Bryant’s Speech, The Niam Niams, A Colored View, People Will Talk, Original Maud Muller, pwackhamer’s Ball Nobody, Who Wouldn't be Fire’ Train of Circumstances, Don’t Depend on Daddam Good Advice, Music of Labor, The Itching Palm, The American Ensign. Debater and Chairman’s Guide No. 11. 1.—DEBATING SOCIETY. 111. —CHAIRMAN’S GUIDE, Its Office and Usefulness, | Ordinary Meetings and Formation of, Assemblies, Constitution of, The Organization, Ben Buster's Oration, Hans Von Spiegel’s 4th, Josh Billings’s Advice, A Hard-shell Sermon, The Boots, The Squeezer, Noah and the Devil, A Lover's Luck, Hifaiutin ist weap By-Laws of, Order of Business and Rules of Government, Proceedings, Local Rules of Order, The “ Question.”’ How it can be Treated, Local Rules of Debate, The “ Question.”” How to Subjects of Discussion, 1.—How To DEBATE, be Considered, Why there are few good | Rights to the Floor, Debaters, * Rights of a Speaker ag Prerequisites to Oratori- gainst the Chair, ° uccess Calling Yeas and Nays, The Logic of Debate, Interrupting a Vote The Rhetoric of Debate, | Organization of Delibera- Maxims to Observe, tive Bodies, Conven- The Preliminary Premise,| tions, Annual or Gen Order of Argument, eral Assemblies, Preliminary Organization Summary. 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