Some New Speakers

The Best American Orations of To-day (Blackstone) $1.25

Selected Readings from the Most Popular Novels

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Pieces That Have Taken Prizes in Speaking Contests

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New Pieces That Will Take Prizes in Speaking Contests 1.25 Pieces for Every Occasion (Le Row)

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How to Attract and Hold an Audience (Esenwein)
How to Use the Voice in Reading and Speaking (Ott)
How to Gesture, New Illustrated Edition (Ott)
A Ten Weeks' Course in Elocution (Coombs)
Fenno's New Science and Art of Elocution
Three-Minute Declamations for College Men
Three-Minute Readings for College Girls
Handy Pieces to Speak (on cards)

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Pros and Cons (Questions of To-day Fully Discussed)

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THE

SCIENCE AND ART

OF

ELOCUTION

EMBRACING

A comprehensive and systematic series of exercises for gesture
calisthenics and the cultivation of the voice, together
with a collection of nearly one hundred and fifty
Literary Gems for Reading and Speaking

ARRANGED

IN FOUR PARTS AND DESIGNED TO BE USED AS A TEXT BOOK IN
THE CLASS-ROOM AND FOR PRIVATE STUDY, AS WELL AS FOR

THE USE OF READERS AND SPEAKERS GENERALLY

BY

FRANK FENNO A.M., F.S.Sc.

Graduate of the National School of Elocution and Oratory; Compiler of
"Fenno's Favorites," for Reading and Speaking; Author of
"The Chart Elocution," "Lectures on
Elocution," etc., etc.

COPYRIGHT, 1878, BY FRANK H. FENNO.

HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE, Publishers
31-33-35 WEST 15th Street, NEW YORK CITY

PREFACE.

THERE have been scores of books published containing selections for reading and speaking, but the author, in common with the public, has long felt the need of something different from what has yet appeared,—a book containing only the best-the choicest productions usually selected for public delivery-issued in a compact form, accompanied by a comprehensive, yet condensed, treatise on Elocution, sufficiently concise to be clearly understood, yet embracing the entire range of the subject.

To meet this want,, the present volume has been prepared, with the heartfelt desire that it will fill the posiition for which it is designed, and prove effectual in its purpose.

It is earnestly believed that no person of fair natural abilities, by carefully studying and applying the principles presented in this book, and by giving the examples a reasonable amount of practice, can fail to become a good, effective reader and speaker.

The selection of pieces has been made with reference to their adaptation and intrinsic merit, and they will be found to cover the entire range of expression, many of them affording excellent opportunity for elocutionary effect. Each selection is accompanied by an explanatory