Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-10-11
" Modern EloQuence."

The very latest acquisition to many of
the best private libraries of this country
is the Incompatible work "MODERN
ELOQUENCE', a library of famous At
ter-dlnner Speeches, classic and popular
Lectures, the best Occasional Addresses.
Anecdotes, and illustrations, in ten vol
umes, published by John d. Norris &
Company, of Philadelphia, edited by
Honorable Thomas B. Reed, Editor-in-
Chief. In collaboration with Hon. Justin
Mccarthy, SOssiter johnson and Albery
Ellery Bergh, assisted by about fifteen
distinguished gentlemen as a Commit
tee OF Selections. We wish that every
one OF our readers might have access to
those invaluable bOOks-the very cream
OF English OratOrical literature of the
last hundred years.
"Eloquence is logic on fire." says Hon.
Thomas B. Reed, and by his collection of
the streams OF elOquence of the Nine
teenth Century into one mighty channel
he has done quite as great a service for
his cOuntrymen, and very likely is as
willing to let his fame rest upon this
monumental work, as upon his record as
Speaker OF the House of Representatives,
when his famous ruling brought i0y or
CONSERVATION to political friends or foes,
winning him the significant and auto
cratic title Scar Reed.
This product Of Mr.. Reeds best effort
affords an inexhaustible vein of rich
matter for mental recreation and
thouuht, and will, moreover, furnish the
best models for the professional and oc-
occasional speaker. That ever increas-
ing class who have entered the political
arena and who find the nearest goal to
political preferment is by way of the
hustings, will find that "MODERN
ELOQUENCE' is a treasure troYe. and
will prove an inestimable Room.
There is in every mans heart a lurk-
ing wish or ambition to be a good pub
lie speaker. 1t is laudable desire. for
what greater gift is there to crave than
to be able to move the multitude at will.
"The applause of listening senates to
commando"
General Grant, the invincible. the
the silent immortal, who could move
armies as easily and as certainly as he
could the toy men of the chess-board,
suffering chagrin, modification when
called upon to address the assembled
thousands who crowded to hear and
see him, and often he said to his con-
fidentlal friends that he would willingly
relinquish all his military glory to be
able to make such speeches as could
orators among his friends and country
men.
If such man as General Grant. to
whom Fortune was more than prOdigal
OF gifts, admitted disappointment at
the Withholding Of the one gift, what
esteem and what POSSIBILITIES must lie in
the dlvlnely Amounted tongue of elO-
quence! OratOry will never lose it's
influence in the world, and the spell
bound multitude will ever wait upon
the lips of eloQuence. The Hon.
Champ Clark, himself an orator of no
mean power, and Associate Editor with
Mr: Reed in MODERN ELOQUENCE''
writes IN the Saturday Evening Post,
as follow: 'This is par excellence the
land OF orators. Here within the life
OF the Republica mere span in the
history OF the human race-the divine
gift OF moving the mind and the heart
by the power Of spoken words has been
bestowed upon more men than in all the
rest OF the world since the confusion
OF tongues at the unfinished Tower of
Babel"
By universal acclaim, Demosthenes
is the Grecian orator, Cicero the Roman
orator, Mirabeau the French orator
Casterlor the Spanish orator and
Edmond Burk the English orator.
Their right there is none to disputeo
VINO Is the American orator? Ask that
question OF any American Audience
and there will be score of answers
preclpltatlng a heated Wrangle.