Over one hundred pieces that have actually taken prizes in Prize Speaking Contests. Pieces That Have Taken Prizes Selected by A. H. Craig, author of "Craig's New Common School Question Book," (of which over 189,000 copies have been sold) and Binney Gunnison, (Harvard), Instructor in the School of Expression, Boston, Mass., and author of "New Dialogues and Plays." The compilers spent nearly three years' time in collecting the pieces for this book. All have actually taken one or more prizes at some Prize Speaking Contest. Among the selections will be found: The Aspirations of the American People; The Storming of Mission Ridge; Opportunities of the Scholar; The Elements of National Wealth; Duty of Literary Men to America; The Future of the Philippines; True Courage; The Boat Race; The Teacher the Hope of America; A Pathetic Incident of the Rebellion; The Permanence of Grant's Fame; The Province of History; The Sermon: The Yacht Race; The Soul of the Violin; Opinions Stronger Than Armies; Në“ Guilty. Bound in cloth. Price $1.25 HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE 31-33-35 West 15th Street New York City These new pieces are just the kind that will arouse an audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm./ New Pieces Selected and adapted by Harriet Blackstone, Teacher of Elocution and Reading, Galesburg High School, Galesburg, Ill. To satisfy the constantly increasing demand for new Pieces for Prize Speaking Contests, the author (with the permission of the authors and publishers) has adapted a number of the choicest selections from the most celebrated works of our best known writers. Among others will be found: Alice's Flag-from Alice of Old Vincennes, by Maurice Thompson; The Wonderful Tar Baby-from Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris; Through the Flood-from Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, by Ian MacLaren; The Shepherd's Trophy-from Bob, Son of Battle, by Alfred Ollivant, Grandma Keeler Gets Grandpa Keeler Ready for Sunday School-from Cape Cod Folks, by Sally Pratt McLean; The Angel and the Shepherds-from Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace; The Queen's Letter-from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope; etc. selection is especially suited for Prize Speaking Contests. Bound in cloth. Price $1.25 HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE Each 31-33-35 West 15th Street New York City FOR EVERY OCCASION COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY CAROLINE B. LE ROW Formerly Instructor of Elocution at Smith and Vassar Colleges COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HINDS & NOBLE HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE, Publishers 31-33-35 WEST 15th ST. NEW YORK CITY HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY BOUGHT FROM AUG 15 1940 Some New Speakers The Best American Orations of To-day (Blackstone) $1.25 Selected Readings from the Most Popular Novels 1.00 Pieces That Have Taken Prizes in Speaking Contests 1.25 New Pieces That Will Take Prizes in Speaking Contests 1.25 Pieces for Every Occasion (Le Row), 1.25 How to Attract and Hold an Audience (Esenwein) 1.00 1.25 1.00 1.25 1.25 1.00 New Dialogues and Plays (Primary; Inter., Adv.) How to Organize and Conduct a Meeting HINDS, NOBLE & ELDREDGE 1.50 1.50 1.50 .15 75 .73 81-33-35 West 15th Street, New York PREFACE. How seldom it is that a teacher can find readily a good piece suitable for some special occasion like Arbor Day, or Decoration Day, or Washington's Birthday. In spite of the fact that there are hundreds of Speakers containing good selections, one invariably has to search through numberless compilations before finding the right" piece for a given occasion. 66 The present compilation has been prepared expressly to enable both teacher and pupil to find readily not merely some one piece for any special "day," but a good variety of pieces for that day, from which he may select according to his taste. A glance at the list of contents will show that great care and good taste have been exercised in selecting the several pieces for each of the many different occasions. Moreover, but few of the selections have ever appeared in any other compilation. Besides pieces for Lincoln's Birthday, Flag Day, Washington's Birthday, Arbor Day, Decoration Day, Graduation and Closing Days, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, and New Year's, will be found some good Temperance Selections, Concert Recitations, Pieces for Musical Accompaniment, together with a large number of declamations and recitations suitable for almost any other occasion. |