PUBLIC READINGS

BEING SELECTIONS IN PROSE AND VERSE

FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS

AS RECITED THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, AND
AMERICA, BY THE LATE

JOHN C. M. BELLEW.

NO. I.-FROM AMERICAN AUTHORS.

WITH

CRITICAL REMARKS ON MR BELLEW'S DIFFERENT RENDERINGS;
COPIOUS NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE APPROPRIATE
MANNER AND ACTION REQUIRED IN THE RECITAL

OF EACH EXTRACT; AND WITH

A CHAPTER ON GESTURE FOR AMATEURS

BY

"LEO ROSS."

THE EDINBURGH PUBLISHING COMPANY.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.

1879.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

THE BEQUEST OF

EVERT JANSEN WENDEL!

1918