(RECAP) Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. FRANKLIN PRINTING HOURS 321 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. PREFACE. HE large number of advance orders for Number TH Ten of the ELOCUTIONIST'S ANNUAL, and the many inquiries concerning the time of its issue, table of contents, etc., give us assurance that we are supplying a popular want in its publication, and that the ANNUAL is becoming a welcome visitor to many schools and households. In this, as in the previous numbers, the greatest care has been taken in the choice of material, not only to afford opportunity for the broadest and best elocutionary training, but also to furnish the Amateur Reader and the Professional Elocutionist with the widest range of selections in adaptation to the various occasions on which appropriate selections may be needed. The constant demands made upon our School for new and fresh Readings, and the opportunities at our command for testing the merits of all selections in the classroom before offering them to the public, afford us unequaled facilities for preparing a book of selections adapted to the wants of a critical popular taste. 70678 With sincerest thanks to the many friends who have shown their interest in our "annual sheaf," either by furnishing or suggesting selections, we submit the present volume, the result of riper experience and more intelligent effort, hoping it may prove no less worthy of favor than the volumes that have preceded it. MRS. J. W. SHOEMAKER. Philadelphia, September 1, 1882. |