THE HUNDRED DIALOGUES, NEW AND ORIGINAL; DESIGNED FOR READING AND EXHIBITION IN SCHOOLS, ACADEMIES, AND PRIVATE CIRCLES OF WILLIAM BENTLEY FOWLE, Author of Familiar Dialogues; The Common School Speaker and other School Books. BOSTON: SAMUEL F. NICHOLS, NO. 43 WASHINGTON STREET. NEW YORK: COLLINS & BRO., 106 LEONARD STREET, GIFT OF Dr. Horace Ivic Northend's Elocutionary Series. NORTHEND'S LITTLE SPEAKER.-The Little Speaker and and Juvenile Reader, being a collection of pieces in Prose, Poetry, and Dialogue, designed for exercises in speaking and occasional reading in Primary Schools. By CHARLES NORTHEND, A.M. 18mo. Price 30 cents. This little work is a judicious selection of simple and instructive pieces for the use of beginners in the study of elocution. It has been the compiler's aim to adapt the work to the capacities of children, and at the same time to have the matter such as will make the proper moral impression. NORTHEND'S AMERICAN SPEAKER.-The American Speaker; being a collection of pieces in Prose, Poetry, and Dialogue, designed for exercises in Declamation in Schools. By CHARLES NORTHEND. Improved edition. 12mo. Price 75 cents. In this volume will be found such variety as will tend to meet the wants of teachers and pupils, to whom it is commended, with the hope that it may prove a valuable and pleasant aid, and tend to give importance and interest to the subject of declamation. NORTHEND'S SCHOOL DIALOGUES.-School Dialogues; comprising one hundred and one selections, particularly adapted to the use of schools. By CHARLES NORTHEND. Twentieth edition, enlarged. 12mo. Price 75 cents. The success of the "American Speaker" has induced the author to prepare this volume, which has been very favorably received. It contains selections eminently adapted to cultivate the elocutionary powers of the student. Sacho's. Speaker. THE NEW AMERICAN SPEAKER; a collection of Oratorical and Dramatic pieces, Soliloquies and Dialogues, with an original introductory essay on the Elements of Elocution, designed for the use of Schools, Academies, and Colleges. By J. C. ZACHO, A.M. 12mo Price, $1. "This is a work which, for the purpose, has no superior. The selections appear to us tasteful and elegant. They are certainly made from authors of the highest classical reputation. Copious in matter, tasteful in style, and clearly and handmely printed, it is a book, we apprehend, that will supersede all others in the class d exhibition room, and become a general favorite both with teachers and students." Literary Advertiser. Copies of any of the above mailed post-paid on receipt of price. COLLINS & BROTHER, Publishers, No. 82 WARREN STREET, NEW YORK. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, BY MARIA ANTOINETTE FOWLE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. EDUCATION DEPT PREFACE. THE scarcity of scenes, suitable for School Dialogues, in our standard Dramatic writers, and the almost entire neglect of this department by literary men, would imply that there is a difficulty in the subject, and this, the author hopes, will secure to him an unusual measure of indulgence, should this attempt not prove to be all that is desired. Grateful for the favor which has been shown to his former efforts, the author regrets that he has reason to complain of so many compilers of school books, who, without the ceremony of a request, or the poor remuneration of an acknowledgment, have appropriated to themselves a large number of his original dialogues, not again be excused. a trespass that will The position long ago assumed by the author, that the use of Familiar Dialogues is the best means of introducing a natural style of reading, has been confirmed by thirty years' experience, and he believes, that, in no other way can the teacher so effectually banish that stiff and sometimes ridiculous mannerism, which prevails in too many schools. It is a pleasant circumstance, that, as this book is intended to be a supplement to other works, it will not be necessary to displace any other to make room for this. It was the intention of the author to print just a hundred dialogues, and hence the title adopted; but it was found necessary to modify the original design, not, however, by reducing the number, but by greatly increasing it. All the pieces in the book are original, and all but seven are now published for the first 924180 |