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Nos, Dime American Speaker, No. 1. Yo America, Birthday of Washington, Plea for the Maine Law, Not on the Battlefield, The Italian Struggle, Independence, Our Country, The Equality of Man, Character of the Revo’n, The Fruits of the War, The Sewing-Machine, True Manhood, The Mystery of Life, The Ups and Downs, The Truly Great, Early Retiring and Ris’g, A. Ward’s Oration, True Nationality, “Yur Natal Day, solferino, Intelligence the Basis of The War, [Liberty, Charge of Light Brigade, After the Battle, The Glass Railroad, Case of Mr. Macbeth, Prof. on Phrenology, Annabel Lee, Washington’s Name, The Sailor Boy’s Syren, Dime National Union and its Results, Our Country’s Future, The Statesman’s Labors True Immortality Let the Childless Wee. Our Country’s Glory, Union a Household, Independence Bell, The Scholar’s Dign:. 7, The Cycles of Prog: ess, A Chrletnies Chant, Stability of Christianity, The True Higher Law, The One Great Need, The Ship and the Bird, Tecumseh’s Speech, Territorial Expansion, Martha Hopkins, The Bashful Man’s Story, The Matter-of-Fact Man, Rich and Poor, Seeing the Eclipse, Beauties of the Law, Ge-lang! Git Up, The Rats of Life, Creowning Glory of U.5., Three Fools, Was on, Our Great Inheritance, Eulogy on Henry Clay, 1 to 23, inclusive. J. Jeboom’s Oration, A Dutch Cure, The Weather The Heated Term, Philosophy Applied An Old Ballad.’ Penny Wise, Pound Fool- True Cleanliness lish, Sat’d’y Night’s Enjoy’ts, ‘*In a Just Cause,’ No Peace with Oppres- sion, A Tale of a Mouse, A Thanksgiving Sermon, The Cost of Riches, Great Lives Imperishable The Prophecy forthe Y’r Unfinished Problems, Honor to the Dead, Immortality of Patriots, Webster’s Polit’] System, A Vision in the Forum, The Press, Woman's Rights, Right of the Governed, My Ladder, Woman, Alone, The Rebellion of 1861, Disunion. SpeaF er, No. 2. Ohyv. “ver Hazard Perry, ‘yur Domain systems of Belief, The Indian Chief, The Independent Farmer Mrs. Grammar’s Ball, How the Money Comes, Future of the Fashions, Loyalty to Liberty, Our Countrv First, Last, and Always, British Influence, Defense of Jefferson, National Hatreds, Murder Will Out, Strive for the Best, Early Rising, Deeds of Kindness, Gates of Sleep, The Bugle, Purity of the Struggl urity of the e, Old Age, ~ Beautiful and True The Worm of the Still, Man and the Infinite, Language of the Eagle, Washington, The Deluge. Dime Patriotic Speaker, No. 3. 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, 1861, The Spirit of '61, The Precious Heritage, The Irish Element, Train’s Speech Christy’s peech, Let Me Alone, Brigand-ier-General, The Draft, Union Square Speeches, The Union, Our Country’s Call, The Story of an Oak Tree, L-e-g On My Leg, History of Our Te Fok ey 9 We Owe to the Union Last Speech of Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln's Message, Great Bell Roland, The New Year and the King Cotton, |Union, Rattle Anthem, The Ends of Peace, Freedom the Watchword Crisis of Our Nation, Duty of Christian Pa- triots, Turkey Dan’s Oration, A Fearless Plea, The Onus of Slavery, A mi (i Tribute, The Little Zouave Catholic Cathedral, The * Speculators.” Dime Comic Speaker, No. 4. Klebcyergoss on the War, A Song of Woe, Age Bluntly Considered, | Ward’s Trip to Richm’d, Early Rising, Parody, The Wasp and the B The Mountebank, Comic Grammar, No. 1, I’m Not a Single Man, A. Ward’s Advice, Buzfuz on Pickwick, Romeo and Juliet, Happiness, Dogs, r= A Texan pg: ey How to be a Fireman, The United States, Puff’s Ace’t of Himself, Practical Phrenology, ~ Beautiful, Cabbage, Disagreeable People, What is a Bachelor Like? Funny Folks, Compound Interest, A Sermon on the Feet, Old Dog Jock, The Wishes’ Toilet, Brian O’Linn, Crockett to Office-seekers Who Is My Opponent? Political Stump mIpenOD Comic Grammar, No. 2, Farewell to the Bottle, The Cork Leg, e Smack in School Sitk's Definition of Wife, Tale of a Hat, The Debating Club, A Dutch Sermon, Lecture on Locomotion, ' Mrs. Caudle on Umbr’lla. Dime Elocutionist, No. 5. SEC, T. PRINCIPLES or TRUE ENUNCIATION.—Faults in Enunciation; How to Avoid Them. Special Rules and Observations. SEC, Il. Tue Art or Orarory, Sheridan’s List of tue Passions: Tranquillity, Cheerfulness, Mirth, —_— a ee mevange Despair Courage, Commanding, Difference, oasting, Pri -_ + oe ee ee ee —-— — — Raillery, Buffoonery, w..y, Delight, Gravity, In- | quiry, Attention, er a Perplexity, Pity, Grief, | € ar, Shame, Remorse, de, Obstinacy, Authority, Forbidding, greeing, Exhorting, Judging, Approv- Affirming, Denying, ing, Acquitting, Condemning, Teaching, Pardon- ing, Arguing, Dismissin pendence, Veneration, ee Refusing, Granting, De- ope, Desire, Love, Re- spect, Giving, Wonder, Admiration, Gratitude, Cu- tpenys S tion, Sl SEC. I. THe Persuasion, Tempting, Promising, Affecta- oth, Intoxication, Anger, etc. COMPONENT ELEMENTS OF AN ORA- TION.—Rules of Composition as applied to Words and Phrases, viz.: urity, Propriety, Precision. 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. IV. REPRESENTATIVE EXERCISES IN PROSE AND Vrerse.—Transition; A Plea for the Ox; Falstaff’s Soliloquy on Honor; the Burial of Lincoln; the Call and Response; the Bayonet Charge; Histor of a Life; the Bugle; the B and the Dag er; Hamlet’s Solilo King William Rufus; the Eye; an Look Upward; ells; Byron; Macbeth uy; Old Things; Essa Onto Musik; Discoveries of Galileo. SEC. V. OBSERVATIONS OF GOoD AUTHORITIES. Dime Humorous Speaker, No. 6. A Sad Story, A String of Unions, A Tragic Story, Cats, Courtship, Debt Devils Dow, Jr.'s Lectures, Ego and Echo Fashionable Fern Thistles, Good-Nature, Gottlieb Klebcyergoss Schlackenlichter’s snake, Hosea Biglow's Opinions, How the Money Goes, Hun-ki-do-ri’s Fourth of July Oration If you Mean No, Say No, Jo Bows on Leap Year, Lay of the Hen ee Lot Skinner’s Elegy, Matrimony, Nothing to Do Old Caudle’s Umbrella, Old Grimes’s Son, Paddle Your Own Canoe, Parody on “ Araby’s Daughter,” Dime Standard The World We Live In, Woman’s Claims, Authors of our Liberty, The Real Conqueror, oe Citizen’s Heritage, taly The Mechanic, Nature and Nature’s God The Modern Good, [Sun, Ossian’s Address to the Independence Bell—1777, John Burns, Gettysburg, No Sect in Heaven, Miss Prude’s Tea-Party, The Power of an Idea, The Beneficence of the Suffrage, ) Dream of the Revelers, HowCyrus Laid the Cable The Prettiest Hand, Paradoxical, Little Jerry, the Miller, The Neck, hts, Fogg adies’ Man, The Life, The Idler, The Unbeliever, omen, - a OE Poetry Run Mad, Right Names, Scientific Lectures, The Ager, The Cockney, The Codfish, Fate of Sergeant Thin, The Features’ Quarrel, Hamerican Voodchuck, The Harp of a Thousand Strings, The Last of the Sarpints, The March to Moscow, The Mysterious Guest, The er 9 The Sea-Serpent, The Secret, The Shoemaker, The Useful Doctor, The Waterfall To the Bachelors’ Union League, United States Presidents, Vagaries of Popping the Question, Wnat I Wouldn't Be Yankee Doodle Aladdin, Ze Moskeetare, 1933. Speaker, No. 7. The Two Lives, The True Scholar, Judges not Infallible, Fanaticism, Instability of Successful Agriculture, [Crime, Ireland, The rote Always Con- Music of Labor, __[quer, Prussia and Austria, Wishing, The Blarney Stone, The Student of Bonn, The Broken Household, The Bible, The Purse and the Sword My ORE True Moral Courage, What is War? Butter My Deborah Lee, e Race, The Pin and Needle, The Modern Puritan Immortality of the Soul, Occupation, Heroism and Daring, A Shot at the Decanter. Dime Stump Speaker, No. 8. Hon. J. M. Stubbs’ Views on the Situation, Hans Schwackheimer on Woman’s Suffrage, All for a Nomination, Old Ocean, [Sea, The Sea,the Sea, the open Star Bangled Spanner, Stay Where You Belong, Life’s What You Make It, Where’s My Money, Speech from Conscience, an’s Relation to Society The Limits to Happiness, Good-nature a Blessing, Sermon from Hard-shell Tail-enders, [Baptist, The Value of Money, Meteoric Disquisition, Be Sure You are Right, Be of Good Cheer Crabbed Folks, [Shrew, Taming a Masculine Farmers, [Our Country The True Greatness 0 New England and Union, The Unseen Battlefield, Plea for the Republic, America, [Fallacy, ‘*Right of Secession’ a Life's Sunset, Human Nature, Lawyers, Wrongs of the Indians, Appealin behalf of Am. iseries of War,[Liberty, A Lay Sermon, A Dream, Astronomical, The Moon, [zens, Duties of American Citi- The Man Temptations of Cities, Broken Resolutions, There is no Death, Races, A Fruitful Discourse, A Frenchman’s Dinner, Unjust National Acqui’n, The Amateur Coachman, The Cold-water Man, Permanency of States, Liberty of Speech, John Thompson's Dau’r, House ey it ls Not Your Business, ee ee ee oe i ; THE DIME SPEAKERS. Hach Speaker, 100 1. ces 12mo., containing from 50 to 75 pieces, A Boy’s Philosophy, Hoe Out Your Row, Six-Year-Old’s Protest, The Suicidal Cat, A Valediction, Popping Corn, The Editor, The Same, in rhyme, The Fairy Shoemaker, What Was Learned, Press On, The Horse, | The Snake in the Grass, Tale of the Tropics, Bromiley’s Speech, Dime Juvenile Speaker, No. 9. et tee ce ae ee + err Be 008 - How the Raven Became Black, A Mother’s Work, The Same, | Who Rules, A Sheep Story, A. Little Correspondent, One Good Turn Deserves My Dream, [Another, Rain, Til Never Use Tobacco, A Mosaic, The Old Bachelor, Prayer to Light, Little Jim, The Same, second extract | Angelina’s Lament, The Fisher’s Child, Shakspearian Scholar, A Maiden’s Psalm of Life, A Mixture, on H or SiN eS, aying . rend Why Live for Something,” Lay of the Hen-Pecked, The Outside Dog, Wolf and Lamb, Lion in Love, Frogs Asking for a King, Sick Lion, Country and Town Mice, Man and Woman, Home, The Lotus-Planter, Little Things. A Baby’s Soliloquy, opennence A Plea for Be 8, Humbug Patriotism, Night After Christmas, Short Legs, Shrimps on Amusements, Johnny Shrimps on Boots Mercy, Choice of Hours Poor Richard's Sayings, Who Killed Tom Roper, Nothing to Do Honesty Best Policy, | Heaven Ho for the Fields, Fashion on the Brain, On Shanghais, A Smile, Casabianca Homoeopathic Soup, Nose and Eyes, rea |Come, A undred Years to The Madman and his Little Sermons, [Razor, Snuffles on Electricity, The Two Cradles, The Ocean Storm, Do Thy Little—Do it Well Little Puss, Base-Ball, [Fever. Prescription for Spring Dime Spread-Eagle Speaker, No. 10. Ben Buster’s Oration, Drum-nead Sermons, Hans Von Spiegel’s 4th, | Schnitzerl’s Philosopede, Josh Billings’s Advice, * Woman's Rights,’ A Hard-shell Sermon, Luke Lather, The Boots, The Hog, The Squeezer, Jack Spratt, Noah and the Devil, New England Tragedy, A Lover’s Luck The Ancient Bachelor Hifalutin Adolphus, Jacob Whittle’s Speech, Digestion and Paradise, | Jerks Prognosticates, Distinction’s Disadvant- | A Word with Snooks, ee Smith, lages, | Sut alee, Gushalina Bendibus, A Mvle Ride, A Stock of Notions | Josh Billings on Buzzers, Speaking for the Sheriff, Il Trovatore, Daking a Shweat, | Kissing in the Street, =, Then and Now Scandalous, Josh Billings’s Lecturing, Slightly Mixed, Doctor De Blister’s Ann’t, The Office-seeker, Consignments, Old Bachelors, Hard Lives, ‘Woman, Dan Bryant's Speech, The Niam Niams, A Colored View, People Will Talk, | Original Maud Muller, Swackhamer’s Nobody | Who Wouldn't be Fire’n, Train of Circumstances, Don't Depend on Dadda, Good Advice _ Music of Labor The Itching Palm, The American Ensign. Debater and Chairman’s Guide No. 11. 1.—DEBATING SOCIETY. Preliminary Organization Its Office and Usefulness, Permanent Organization, Formation of _ The Order of Business, , ; = , Constitution of, | Considering Reports, Pa- yeTS, etc., O Subsidiary Motions, The Due Order of Con- By-Laws of, Rules of Government, Local Rules of Order, Local Rules of Debate, Subjects of Discussion. 11.—How To DEBATE. Why there are few good Committees, Objects of a Committee, Their Powers, ' Debaters, How Named, Prerequisites to Oratori- _ When Not to Sit, | _ eal Success Rules of Order and Pre | The Logic of Debate, cedure, The Rhetoric of Debate, | How to Report, Maxims to Observe, | The Committee of the The Preliminary Premise, Mi, hole, Order of Argument, . iscellaneous, | Summary. | Treatment of Petitions, ‘The Decorum of Debat> 111.—CHAIRMAN'S GUIDE. Debate, Hints to a Chairman. Ordinary Meetings and | Assemblies, The Organization, Order of Business and tv.—DEBATES. Debate in full: Which is the Greatest Proceedings, Benefit to his Country The “ Question.”” Howit!—the Warrior, States- can be Treated, man, or Poet? The “‘ Question.’’ How to | Debates in Brief; be Considered, I. Is the Reading of Rights to the Floor, Works of Fiction to be Rights of a Speaker as} Condemned? gainst the Chair, Il. Are Lawyers a Bene- Calling Yeas and Nays, fit or a Curse to So Interrupting a Vote ciety? Organization of Delibera- tive Bodies, Conven- tions, Annual or Gen- eral Assemblies, V.—QUOTATIONS AND PHRASES, Latin, O}ONO) eolm (¢ sidering Questions, | — \