OF PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPRISING THE TECHNIQUE OF ARTICULATION, PHRASING, COPYRIGHT, 1899 BY GUY CARLETON LEE Entered at Stationers' Hall, London 77644 The knickerbocker Press, New York IT IS WITH SINCERE PLEASURE THAT I DEDICATE THIS BOOK ΤΟ PROFESSOR HERBERT B. ADAMS, A SCHOLAR OF DISTINGUISHED MERIT AND ONE OF THE MOST PLEASING AND EFFECTIVE OF AMERICAN PUBLIC SPEAKERS. I PREFACE HAVE sought to present within the limits of this volume a practical exposition of the art of Public Speaking. A distinctive feature of this text-book is its comprehensiveness. In one volume the student will find, not only the elements of vocal culture and the treatment of the subject of extemporaneous speaking and debate, but also a manual of Parliamentary Law. I have profited largely by the work of my predecessors. I have drawn extensively from their valuable treatises. I hesitate to express thanks to individuals, but must state my particular obligation to the works of George Pierce Baker, William B. Chamberlain, S. H. Clark, J. Scott Clark, Robert I. Fulton, C. J. Plumptre, Ralph Curtis Ringwalt, Thomas C. Trueblood, and E. T. Southwick. I am pleased to acknowledge my indebtedness to my pupil and friend, Edward P. Hyde, of Johns Hopkins University, for valued assistance in the compilation of the Rules of Order. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, September 1, 1899. GUY CARLETON LEE. |