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​Public Speaking: A Treatise on Delivery with Selections for Declaiming
By Professor Edwin D. Shurter, of the University of Texas. 12mo, cloth, 265 pages. Price, 90 cents.
This book treats chiefly of persuasive speaking, and the author lays stress on the fact that mental qualities, such as clearness, simplicity, vivacity, spontaneity, and sincerity, are of chief value in declamation. Although this principle is counted fundamental, the book has all the necessary rules and principles for the technique of public speaking, with exercises for perfecting the voice and for overcoming defects of speech. Gesture is treated in a very happy way, as the physical expression of earnestness. The chapters are:—
The Selections for Practice include speeches from Lincoln, Roosevelt, Blaine, Grady, John Hay, Woodrow Wilson, Wendell Phillips, Henry Watterson, and many others.
A Drill Book in English
Compiled by George E. Gay, Superintendent of Schools, Haverhill, Mass. 12mo, cloth, 108 pages. Price, 45 cents.
This manual will appeal only to teachers who believe that is value in presenting to the pupils specimens of bad English for correction. It contains in brief form rules for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and the most important principles of grammar and rhetoric. Abundant exercises for practice are given.
​The Drama: Its Law and its Technique
By Elisabeth Woodbridge, Ph.D. 12mo, cloth, 198 pages. Price, 80 cents.
The object of this book is to present a manual for use in college courses on the drama, which shall stand the test of actual classroom use. It is successful in avoiding the principal defects of previous short treatises on the subject, which have been made up too completely of theories on the art, or have occupied themselves too exclusively with practical stage-craft.
The chapters are:—
Its broader foundations are laid in Freytag's Technik des Dramas, but it follows Freytag's footsteps only where it is unavoidable to any one venturing on the ground at all. The discussion itself is an original treatment on lines adapted to give the student a real knowledge and a permanent appreciation of the structure of the drama.
Selections from Carlyle
Edited by H. W. Boynton. 12mo, cloth, 288 pages. Price, 75 cents.
This volume includes material for the elementary study of Carlyle in his earliest and most fruitful period. It contains the Essays on Burns, on History, on Boswell's Life of Johnson, and selections from Heroes and Hero-Worship (the Introduction; the Hero as Poet—Dante, Shakespeare; and the Hero as Man of Letters—Johnson, Rousseau, Burns).
​An Old English Grammar and Exercise Book
With Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary. By C. Alphonso Smith, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of North Carolina, 12mo, cloth, 201 pages. Price, $1.00.
This book is designed to meet the needs of those teachers who wish a brief and simplified text-book in Anglo-Saxon. It will enable the student to read any of the dialects of the Old English period, and will also serve as a foundation for the study of Modern English, of historical English grammar, and of the principles of English etymology. Emphasis is constantly put upon Modern English equivalents, the student being thus led at every step to compare the words, inflections, and syntax of Old English with those of Modern English.
The book begins with a brief History of the Language, followed by Sounds, Inflections, and Syntax. The exercises will furnish all the drill necessary to enable the student to retain the forms and constructions given in the various chapters.
The Selections for Reading which follow the grammar contain The Battle of Ashdown from the Chronicle; A Prayer of King Alfred; The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan; The Story of Cædmon; Alfred's Preface to the Pastoral Care.
There is a chapter on Anglo-Saxon Poetry, followed by extracts from Beowulf and The Wanderer.
Introduction to Theme-Writing
By J. B. Fletcher, of Harvard University, and the late Professor George R. Carpenter. 16mo, cloth, 143 pages. Price, 60 cents.
This is a text-book for students who have completed the introductory course in rhetoric usually prescribed at the beginning of the freshman year. It is founded on lectures delivered by Mr. Fletcher at Harvard in 1893. The chapters are on Letter-Writing, Description, Narration, Criticism, Exposition, and Argument.
​De Quincey's Essays on Style, Rhetoric, and Language
Edited by Professor Fred N. Scott, University of Michigan. 12mo, 275 pages. Price, 60 cents.
The essays selected are those which deal directly with the theory of literature. The appendix contains such passages from De Quincey's other writings as will be of most assistance to the student.
Principles of Success in Literature
By George Henry Lewes. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Professor Fred N. Scott. 12mo, 163 pages. Price, 50 cents.
The object of reprinting this admirable little treatise on literature is to make it available for classes in rhetoric and literary criticism. Scarcely any other work will be found so thoroughly sound in principles, and so suggestive and inspiring.
The value of the present edition is greatly increased by the excellent introduction by Professor Scott, and by a full index.
Spencer's Philosophy of Style and Wright's Essay on Style
Edited by Professor Fred N. Scott, of the University of Michigan. 12mo, 92 pages. Price, 45 cents.
The plan has been followed of providing a biographical and critical introduction, an index, and a few notes. In the belief that the Philosophy of Style can best be understood in connection with the Spencerian philosophy as a whole, the Introduction has been made largely bibliographical. There are Appendices giving a criticism of Spencer's theory of the effect of rhythmical structure from Gurney's Power of Sound, and an extract from Spencer's First Principles touching the evolution of literature.