Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-12
A GREAT LIBRARY.
What "Modern Eloquence." Ex-Speaksr Reeds Great Library of Lectures, After
 Dinner Speeches, and Occasional Addresses Contains

Reeds Great Library of Lectures, After
 Dinner Speeches, and Occasional
 Addresses Contains
 About 300 famous after-dinner speeches, constituting the first coliec- ton of post-prandial oratory ever pub lished. They abound in wit, wisdom and humor, and are enticingly enter taining, but they are much more; American literature does not elsewhere afford so valuable an exposition and discussion of the important events and questions of our national history.
 Fifty great classical and popular lec- lures gathered from dlversined fields, and representing the highest type of spoken thought-lectures which have held spell-bound hundreds of thou sands of persons who paid literally to hear them. Every lecture Is given complete, and most of them are here published for the first time. They are humorous, pathetic, critical, ethical, reminiscent and expository, and deal with History, Science, Travel, Biogra- phy, Literature, Art, Philosophy, etc. They are marked by elevation, vigor and catholicity of thought, by fitness, purity and grace of style, and by artis- tic construction.
 About 15O scholarly and finished ad- dresses delivered on special occasions, including notable Literary. Scientific and Commemorative Addresses and Eulogies. These Addresses represent the most eloquent and polished utter ances of the most scholarly men of the last half century, and aside from their encyclopaedia importance, pos sess an inestimable value to the lover of beautiful and classic English.
 Volume X contains the brightest and most pungent collection of stories, "reminiscences, anecdotes and repartee, such as only men like Thomas B. Reed, Champ Clark, Senator Deliver, Congressman Allen, could provide. Some of the congressional cloak-room stories told by these men are rich in deed.
 Special articles and editorial criti- cisms on the various features and forms of oratory, reminiscent, sugges- tive and instructive, are in each vol ume. f
 An analytical index and cross refer ences giving the work of an encyclo- paedic value is in volume X.
 In sentence. the contents of the ten volumes are literally treasure-trove Lectures of inestimable value, per haps heard but once; Speeches that have set the world agog; Anecdotes that reveals the public character and tendencies of the hour like seeing by lightning flashes; and special articles which make this work a. most notable contribution to English literature. Quite a number of the Lectures nave been bound in booklet form, among which are "Bulogy on Ben Hill," one of the most pathetic, yet beautiful ex- pressions of human emotion. "The Race Problem" by Henry Woodfin Grady, gives full view of the prob- lem from a very eloquent Southerner's S standpoint "Last Days of the Con- federacy," by one of the men who lost yet won; General John Brown Gordon of Georgia. Free Masonry" is re- viewed from its inception to the pres eth time
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