Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 608 — page 18: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE DIME SPEAKERS.:- ET Er tT TT | Each Speaker, 100 pages 12mo., containing from 50 to 75 pieces. 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, a PEAY oe 9 on ade e Sewing-Mac True Manhood, ‘ The Mystery of Life, The Ups and Downs, The gs Great, Early Retiring and Ris’g, A. Ward’s Oration, True Nationality, Natal Day, Solferino, a agg the Basis of The War, iberty, Charge of Light Brigade, After the Battle, - The Glass Railroad Case of Mr. Macbeth, Prof. on Phrenology, Annabel Lee Washington's Name, The ele. Boy’s Syren, J. Jeboom’s Oration, A Dutch Cure, The Weather it whaling ote, osophy Appli An Old Ballad, Penny Wise, Found Fool- Mae een fish, at’d’y t’s Enjoy’ts, **In a Just Cause,’ No Peace with Oppres- sion, anksgi ermo The Cost of Riches, 7 Great Lives Imperishable The Prophecy forthe Y’r Unfinished Problems, Honor to the Dead, Wore a of Patriots, Webster’s Polit’] System, A Vision in the Forum, The Press, Woman's Rights, Right of the Govern ily Ladder, ° oman, Alone, The Rebellion of 1861, Disunion, Dime National Speaker, No. 2. Union and its Results, Our Country’s Future, The Statesman’s Labors, Let the Childless ‘Weep, Our Country’s Glory, Union a Household, dence Bell, The Scholar’s Dignity, re cles of Pro * Chan Stability of Christianity, The True Higher Law, The One Great Need, The Ship and the Bird, Tecumseh’s Speech, Ep ee Cy) Beauties of the Law, Ge-lang! Git Up, tveowtets Gide? of U.8 e) . *s Three Fools, ny: ashington, Our Great Inheritance, Kulogy on Henry Clay, Ohio, Oliver Hazard Perry, Our Domain Sete: aa of Belief, The Indian Chief, The Independent Farmer Mrs. Grammar’s Ball, How the Money Comes, Future of the Fashions, Loyalty to Liberty, Our Country First, Last, and Always, British Influence, Defense of Jefferson, National Hatreds, ang baer Out, trive for the Best, ond Rising, D of Kindness, Gates of Sleep, The le, A Hoo Gem, args of the Struggle, Beautiful and 08 The Worm of the Still, Man and the te, Language of the Eagle, Washington, The Deluge. Dime Patriotic Speaker, No. 3. America to the World, Love of Count Right of Self- rva- Our Cause, [tion, A Kentuckian’s ap Kentucky Steadf Timidity is Treason, The Alarum April 15, 1861, The se of '61, The ious Heritage, The Irish Element, Train's — Christy's peech, Union Square Speeches, The Union, Our nema he Call, The Story of an Oak Tree, L-e-g On My Leg, History of Our T. F. i Noe Ty Rae We Owe to the Union, Last Speech off toph peech o en A. Douglas, <P Great Bell Roland, The New Year and the King Cotton, [Union, Battle 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 Foreigner's Tribute, The Little Zouave Catholic Cathe The ** Speculators.” Dime Comic Speaker, No. 4. Klebcyergoss on the War, ' A Song of Woe, Age ig mnt The Wasp and the Bee Comic Grammar, No. 1, I’m Not a Single Man, A. Ward’s Advice, Buzfuz on Pickwick, Romeo and Juliet, Happiness, Ogs, An oxan Eul exan um, How to be a Puff’s Acc’t of Himself, Practical Phrenology, Beautiful, olk Cab Disagrecable Peop A Dutch Se is a Bachelor Like? Funny Folks, luntly Considered, | Ward’s Trip to Richm’d, Parody, The Mountebank, Compound Interest, A Sermon on the Feet, Old Dog Jock, The Fishes’ Toilet, Brian O’Linn, Crockett to Office-seekers Who Is My Opponent? Political Stump Speech, Comic Grammar No. 2 Farewell to the Bottle, The Cork Leg, The Smack in School Slick’s Definition of Wife, Tale of a Hat, The Debating Club, rmon, Lecture on Locomotion, Mrs. Caudle on Umbr’lla. Dime Elocutionist, No. 5. BEC, I. and Observations, SEC. Il. Tue Arr or Oratory. Sheridan’s List of Tranquillity, Cheerfulness, Mirth, Joy, Delight, Gravity esty, Perplexity, Pity, the Passions: Raillery, Buffoonery t gay Attention, Mod elancholy, Despair ! Courage, Boas &, Commanding, Difference ing, Acquitting, ing, Arguin pendence, ting, eneration, PRINCIPLES OF TRUE ENUNCIATION.—Faults in Enunciation; How to Avoid Them. Special Rules Grief, ear, Shame, Remorse, de, Obstinacy, Authority, Forbidding, Affirming, greeing, Exhorting, Judging, Approv- i Teaching, Pardon- Condemning ismissing, Refusing, Granting, De- Denying, ope, Desire, Love, ect, Giving, Wonder, Admiration, Gratitude, Cu tion, — Persuasion, Tempting, Promising, Affecta- loth, Intoxication, Anger, etc. SEC. II. Tue Component ELEMENTS OF AN ORA TION. —Rules of Com and Phrases, viz.: sition as applied to Words urity, Propriety, Precision. As applied to Sentences, viz.: Length of Sentence, Clearness, Unity, Stren Exordium the Narration, t Confirmation, the Refut h. Figures of Speech; the e Proposition, the ation, the Peroration. SEC. IV. REPRESENTATIVE EXERCISES IN PROSE AND Verst.—Transition; A Plea for the Ox; Falstaff’s Soliloquy on Honor; the Burial of Lincoln; the Call and Response; the Bayonet Charge; Histo of a Life; the Bugle; the amlet’s Soliloquy; Old Things; ng William Rufus; the Eye; an and the Dag er; Look Upward; ells; Byron; Macbet Essa Onto Musik; Discoveries of Galileo. SEC. V. OBSERVATIONS OF Goop AUTHORITIES, Dime Humorous Speaker, No. 6. A Sad weet. § A String o Onions, ‘ Tragic Story, ats, Courtship, Debt Devils Dow, Jr.’s Lectures, Ego and Echo Fashionable Women, Fern Thistles, Good-Nature, Gottlieb Klebcyergoss Schlackenlichter’s snake, Hosea Biglow’s Opinions, How the Money Hun-ki-do-ri’s Fourth of July Oration If you Mean No, Say No, eee tes y of the Hen 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,”’ 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, e Sea-Serpen The Secret, The Shoemaker The Useful Doctor, e Waterfall To the Bachelors’ Union ere United States Presidents, Vagaries of Popping the Question, What I Wouldn't Be Yankee Doodle Aladdin, ty Moskeetare, Dime Standard Speaker, No. 7, The World We Live In, Woman's ms, Authors of our Liberty, The Real eg: sare The Citizen's Heritage, Italy The Mechanic, Nature and Nature’s God The Modern Good, (Sun, Ossian’s Address to the Independence Bell—1777, The Neck, The Idler, The Unbeliever, The Two Lives The True Scholar Judges not Infallible, Fanaticism, Instability of Successful Agriculture, [Crime, Ireland, The People Always Con- Music of Labor, _[quer, eer and Austria, ishing, John Burns, Gettysb No Sect in Heaven, ri Miss Prude’s Tea-Party, The Power of an Idea, es Beneficence ee rage, ea, Dream of the Revelers, HowCyrus Laid the Cable The Prettiest Hand, Paradoxical, Little Jerry, the Miller, The Blarney Stone, The Student of Bonn The Broken Household, The Bible, The Purse and the Sword My Country, True Moral Courage, What is War? Butter, My Deborah Lee, The 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 CLO Life’s What You Make Where’s My Money, from Conscience, an’s Relation to Society The Limits to Happiness, ’ ’ Pu New England and Union, The Unseen Battlefield, Plea for the Republic, America, [Fallacy, " Right of Secession ”’ a Life’s Sunset, oct Nature, awyers, Wrongs of the Indians, Appeal in behalf of Am, Miseries of War, (Liberty, A Lay Sermon, A Dream, Astronomical, outline San 2: é L\ set \ NEBR COR TOes EG. Yee | “ts In- 4 + yl? ; * > . . 4 4 La A Fe by a 5) , », “wy © " id . es 4 - ae. 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 of The Cold-water Man, Permanency of States, Liberty of Speech, 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, John Thompson’s Dau’r, House vere It Is Not Your Business, Dime Juvenile Speaker, No. 9, A Boy’s 5? pra a 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, Wolf and Lamb, Lion in Love, Frogs Asking for a King, Sick Lion, Country and Town Mice, Man and Woman, ome, The Lotus-Planter, Little Things. A Baby’s Soliloquy, a eo A Plea for eggs Humbug Patriotism, Night After Christmas, Short Legs, Shrimps on Amusements, How the Raven Became Blatk, A Mother's Work, The Same, Who Rules, A Sheep Story, A Little Correspondent, One Good Turn Deserves My Dream, [Another, Rain I'll Never Use Tobacco, A Mosaic, The Old Bachelor, Tale of the Tropics, Bromley’s Speech, The Same, second extract The Fisher’s Child, ene pee Scholar A Maiden’s Psalm of Life, A Mixture, Plea for Skates, Playing Ball, h, Why Live for Something Lay of the Hen-Pecked, The Outside Dog, Prayer to Light, Little Jim, Angelina’s Lament, 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 B On Shanghais, A Smile, Casabianca Homeopathic Soup, Nose and Eyes, Malt [Come. A Hundred Years to The Madman and he, Little Sermons, [Razor, Snuffles on Electricity, The Two Cradles, The Ocean Storm, Do Thy Little—Do it Well Little Puss, [Fe amen o ver, Prescription for Spring Dime Spread-Eagle Speaker, No. 10, 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 Hifalutin Adol phus Digestion and aradise, a a ‘ee m ages, Gushalina Bendibus, A Stock of Notions Speaking for the Sheriff, | Daking a Shweat, Then and Now Josh ee te Lecturing, Doctor De Blister’s Ann't, Consignments, Hard Lives, Dan Bryant's Speech, A Colored View, Original Maud Muller, Nobody Train of Circumstances, Good Advice The Itching Palm, Drum-head Sermons, fae Ss Rights “Woman's Luke Lather, The Hog, New England Tragedy ew Englan 4 The Ancient Bachelor Jacob Whittle’s Speech, Jerks Prognosticates, . A Word with Snooka, Sut eae) A Mule Ride, Josh Billings on Buzzers, Il Trovatore, Kissing in the Street, Scandalous, Slightly Mixed, The Office-seeker, Old Bachelors, Woman, The Niam Niams, People Will Talk, Swackhamer’s Who Wouldn't be y. Don't Depend on Daddan, | Music of Labor ‘The American Ensign. Debater and Chairman’s Guide No. 11, 1.—DEBATING Society. Its Office and Usefulness, Formation of, Constitution of, 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 Debaters, re 2 ma to Oratori- cal Success The Logie of Debate, The Rhetoric of Debate, Maxims to Observe, The Preliminary Premise, Order of Argument, Summary. 111.—CHAIRMAN’S GUIDE, Ordinary Meetings and Assemblies, The Organization, Order of Business and Proceedings, The “‘ Question.” How it can be Treated, The “‘ Question.’’ How to be Considered, Rights to the Floor, Rights of a Speaker ag Against the Chair, Calling Yeas and Nays, Interrupting a Vote tion of Delibera- ve Bodies, Conven- tions, Annual or Gen- eral Assemblies, Preliminary Organization Permanent O ization, The Order of Busin Considering Reports, of 'Subsidia Subsidiary Motions, The Due Order of Cn sidering Questions Committees ; — eg tintin gem _ °— a