THE SCIENCE AND ART OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY: CONTAINING SPECIMENS OF THE ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT, THE BAR, THE STAGE, the IN THREE PARTS. PART I.—THEORETIC AND SCIENTIFIC; PART II.-RHETORICAL, CLAS- NEW YORK BY WORTHY PUTNAM, PROFESSOR OF PARLIAMENTARY AND FORENSIC ORATORY IN THE OHIO STATE AND "There's a charm in Oratory, a magical art, That thrills like a kiss from the lips to the heart."-Mrs. Welby. NEW YORK: C. M. SAXTON, 25 PARK ROW. ་་་།།RARY ACTOR, LENOX AND 1902 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, BY MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York. PREFACE. THIS book must speak for itself. It has been prepared at the request of many teachers, public speakers, and others interested in the author's entertainments, lectures, and teachings. It is the result of long and patient investigation of the art and science of reading and speaking. The author humbly trusts that his experience as a teacher of Elocution, has enabled him to produce a work, so true to nature and so practical, as to make it the interest and pleasure of teachers and students, readers and speakers, to welcome it as a teacher and friend. Reading and speaking are arts great, noble, intricate arts. The mind plays upon nature's organs, but science must tune them; and consequently the speaker gives tones and expression to thought, corresponding with the amount and quality of instruction. My friends, you are charmed with elegant speaking or read ing. You devoutly desire such accomplishments. Come, then, arouse your energies; open this book, and acquire a treasure more noble, more enduring, than the wealth of Golconda or California-the treasure of cultivated thought, emotion, and speech. Thought is an immortal action of mind, but confined to the individual being; speaking is thought with a momentum, a noble, philanthropic action, that, like the sun, scatters its beams of light broadcast, to cheer and bless mankind. By attending with an energy of purpose and action to the scientific part of this work, you can learn the true elements of 20 MAY 02 |