Page 7 - The model orator, or, Young folks' speaker : containing the choicest recitations and readings from the best authors for schools, public entertainments, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc. : including recitals in prose and verse ...

PREFACE.

T H E R E is an immense and constantly growing demand fop the
very best selections from the best authors for readings and
recitations. No form of entertainment is more universally
popular than this for Schools, Social Gatherings, Lyceums, Lodges,

Church and Sunday-school Anniversaries, Christmas Exhibitions and
'many other public occasions. The cultured voice and magnetic
personality ot the successful reader are always charming and welcome,
This demand is fully .supplied by I hi* work which is a rich casket
of gems in Prose and Poetry, all strikingly adapted to instruct and
entertain. They are suited to every coneeivablc occasion where
a reading- is in order, and are the best afforded by the whole range
of literature, comprising Eloquence and Sentiment; Pathos and
Hi:.nor; Dramatic and Descriptive Selections; Juvenile Readings;
Readings with Lesson T alks; Readings with Accompaniments oi
Music ; Dialogues, Tableaux, etc,, etc.
Part F ikst ; The Mind Speaking through the Body, contains
Important Principles and Rules. In a very concise form it points out
the best methods for strengthening and cultivating the voice and
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teaches the manner to be observed, the most effective attitudes and
gestures to be employed, and the rules for emphasis and pauses.
This part is rendered attractive and valuable by helpful object
lessons. It contains all the typical and most important gestures
in outline drawings, to which frequent references are made throughout
the work, showing the exact gesture that should be made.
Part S econd: Readings with Lesson Talks, contains charming
selections to which are added valuable suggestions as to the best
manner of rendering them. These Talks are brief, pithy and right to

the point. Verse by verse and line by line the reader is told how to
deliver the thought arid sentiment to the veiy best advantage.