Standard Selections, by Fulton, Trueblood & Trueblood

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Trueblood, Thomas C. (Thomas Clarkson), 1856-1951

Title

Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions from Best Authors for Use in Class Room and on the Platform

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Produced by Kevin Handy, John Hagerson, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

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English

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PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

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Recitations

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eBook-No.

19926

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19926

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November 27, 2006

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.STANDARD SELECTIONS — A COLLECTION AND ADAPTATION OF SUPERIOR PRODUCTIONS FROM BEST AUTHORS FOR USE IN CLASS ROOM AND ON THE PLATFORM — Arranged and Edited by — ROBERT I. FULTON — Dean of the School of Oratory and Professor of Elocution and Oratory in the Ohio Wesleyan University — THOMAS C. TRUEBLOOD — Professor of Elocution and Oratory in the University of Michigan — and — EDWIN P. TRUEBLOOD — Professor of Elocution and Oratory in Earlham College — GINN AND COMPANY — BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LONDON ATLANTA · DALLAS · COLUMBUS · SAN FRANCISCO — Copyright, 1907, by R. I. Fulton, T. C. Trueblood, and E. P. Trueblood ALL RIGHTS RESERVED — The Athenæum Press GINN AND COMPANY · PROPRIETORS BOSTON · U.S.A. — PREFACE — CONTENTS — PREFACE — I — NARRATIVE, DESCRIPTIVE, PATHETIC — II — SOLEMN, REVERENTIAL, SUBLIME — III — PATRIOTIC, HEROIC, ORATORICAL — IV — GAY, HUMOROUS, COMIC — V — DRAMATIC, NOT IN THE DRAMA — VI — SCENES FROM THE DRAMA — STANDARD SELECTIONS — I — NARRATIVE, DESCRIPTIVE, PATHETIC — THE ARENA SCENE FROM "QUO VADIS" [1] — Henryk Sienkiewicz — FOOTNOTE: — THE ARROW AND THE SONG [2] — H. W. Longfellow — FOOTNOTE: — AUX ITALIENS — R. Bulwer Lytton — BOBBY SHAFTO [3] — Daniel Henry, Jr. — FOOTNOTE: — CARCASSONNE — Gustav Nadaud , translated by M. E. W. Sherwood — THE CHILD-WIFE — Charles Dickens — COUNT GISMOND — Robert Browning — THE DEATH OF ARBACES [4] — Edward Bulwer Lytton — FOOTNOTE: — DORA — Alfred Lord Tennyson — AN EASTER WITH PAREPA — Myra S. Delano — THOSE EVENING BELLS — Thomas Moore — GINEVRA — Susan Coolidge — THE HIGH TIDE AT LINCOLNSHIRE — Jean Ingelow — HOW DID YOU DIE? [5] — Edmund Vance Cooke — FOOTNOTE: — THE INDIGO BIRD [6] — John Burroughs — FOOTNOTE: — THE JACKDAW OF RHEIMS — R. H. Barham — JAFFAR — Leigh Hunt — JIM BLUDSOE [7] — John Hay — FOOTNOTE: — KING ROBERT OF SICILY [8] — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — FOOTNOTE: — THE LADY OF SHALOTT — Alfred Lord Tennyson — PART I — PART II — PART III — PART IV — A LEGEND OF SERVICE [9] — Henry van Dyke — FOOTNOTE: — LITTLE BOY BLUE — Eugene Field — MARY'S NIGHT RIDE [10] — George W. Cable — FOOTNOTE: — NYDIA, THE BLIND GIRL [11] — Edward Bulwer Lytton — THE BLIND FLOWER GIRL'S SONG — I — II — III — IV — FOOTNOTE: — O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN! [12] — ON THE DEATH OF LINCOLN — Walt Whitman — FOOTNOTE: — ON THE OTHER TRAIN — A CLOCK'S STORY — Anonymous — THE PANSY — Anonymous — "THE REVENGE" — A BALLAD OF THE FLEET, 1591 — Alfred Lord Tennyson — THE RIDER OF THE BLACK HORSE — George Lippard — SAILING BEYOND SEAS — Jean Ingelow — THE SANDS OF DEE — Charles Kingsley — THE SCHOOL OF SQUEERS [13] — Charles Dickens — FOOTNOTE: — THE SECRET OF DEATH — Edwin Arnold — SHAMUS O'BRIEN — A TALE OF '98, AS RELATED BY AN IRISH PEASANT — Joseph Sheridan le Fanu — MY SHIPS [14] — Ella Wheeler Wilcox — FOOTNOTE: — THE SOLDIER'S REPRIEVE — R. D. C. Robbins — THE SONG [15] — Walter Scott — FOOTNOTE: — THE STIRRUP CUP [16] — John Hay — FOOTNOTE: — THE SWAN-SONG — Katherine R. Brooks — SWEET AFTON — Robert Burns — VIOLET'S BLUE [17] — Daniel Henry Jr . — FOOTNOTE: — TO A WATERFOWL [18] — William Cullen Bryant — FOOTNOTE: — THE WEDDING-GOWN — Etta W. Pierce — WHEN THE SNOW SIFTS THROUGH [19] — S. W. Gillilan — FOOTNOTE: — TO A WILD FLOWER [20] — Maurice Thompson — FOOTNOTE: — THE FATE OF ZOROASTER — F. Marion Crawford — II — SOLEMN, REVERENTIAL, SUBLIME — CENTENNIAL HYMN [21] — John G. Whittier — FOOTNOTE: — THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS [22] — Oliver Wendell Holmes — FOOTNOTE: — CROSSING THE BAR — Alfred Lord Tennyson — THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB — Lord Byron — EACH AND ALL [23] — Ralph Waldo Emerson — FOOTNOTE: — LAUS DEO! [24] — ON HEARING BELLS ANNOUNCING EMANCIPATION — John G. Whittier — FOOTNOTE: — THE PILGRIM FATHERS — Felicia Dorothea Hemans — THE PRESENT CRISIS [25] — James Russell Lowell — FOOTNOTE: — THE RECESSIONAL — Rudyard Kipling — THE SACREDNESS OF WORK — Thomas Carlyle — WHAT'S HALLOWED GROUND? — Thomas Campbell — III — PATRIOTIC, HEROIC, ORATORICAL — THE SEVEN GREAT ORATORS OF THE WORLD — I. DEMOSTHENES — THE ENCROACHMENTS OF PHILIP [26] — FOOTNOTE: — II. MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO — ORATION AGAINST ANTONY [27] — FOOTNOTE: — III. SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM — I. UNDUE LAMENTATIONS OVER THE DEAD — II. ON APPLAUDING PREACHERS — IV. JACQUES BÉNIGNE BOSSUET — ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE OF CONDÉ — V. WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM — I. WAR WITH AMERICA [28] — FOOTNOTE: — II. ATTEMPT TO SUBJUGATE AMERICA — VI. EDMUND BURKE — I. IMPEACHMENT OF HASTINGS [29] — FOOTNOTE: — II. CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA [30] — FOOTNOTE: — III. ENGLISH PRIVILEGES IN AMERICA — VII. DANIEL WEBSTER — I. BUNKER HILL MONUMENT — FOOTNOTE: — II. REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOTS — III. CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON [32] — FOOTNOTE: — SIX GREAT TRIUMPHS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORATORY — I. THE CALL TO ARMS — Patrick Henry — II. COERCION OF DELINQUENT STATES — Alexander Hamilton — III. THE REPLY TO HAYNE — Daniel Webster — IV. THE MURDER OF LOVEJOY — Wendell Phillips — FOOTNOTE: — V. THE SLAVERY ISSUE — Abraham Lincoln — VI. MORAL ASPECT OF THE AMERICAN WAR — Henry Ward Beecher — ABOLITION OF WAR [34] — Charles Sumner — FOOTNOTE: — THE AMERICAN FLAG [35] — Henry Ward Beecher — FOOTNOTE: — THE AMERICAN PEOPLE [36] — Albert J. Beveridge — FOOTNOTE: — THE AMERICAN QUESTION — John Bright — AMERICA'S RELATION TO MISSIONS — James B. Angell — AMERICAN SLAVERY — John Bright — THE ARMENIAN MASSACRES — William E. Gladstone — BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC [37] — Julia Ward Howe — FOOTNOTE: — THE BLUE AND THE GRAY — Henry Cabot Lodge — CORRUPTION OF PRELATES — Girolamo Savonarola — THE CROSS OF GOLD [38] — W. J. Bryan — FOOTNOTE: — DEATH OF CONGRESSMAN BURNES — J. J. Ingalls — THE DEATH OF GARFIELD [39] — James Gillespie Blaine — FOOTNOTE: — DEATH OF TOUSSAINT L'OVERTURE [40] — Wendell Phillips — FOOTNOTE: — THE DEDICATION OF GETTYSBURG CEMETERY — Abraham Lincoln — THE FALLEN HEROES OF JAPAN — Admiral Heihaichiro Togo — SECESSION [41] — Alexander H. Stephens — FOOTNOTE: — THE DEATH OF GRADY — John Temple Graves — THE GLORY OF PEACE — Charles Sumner — THE HOPE OF THE REPUBLIC — H. W. Grady — HUNGARIAN HEROISM — Louis Kossuth — INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS [42] — William McKinley — FOOTNOTE: — IRISH HOME RULE [43] — William E. Gladstone — FOOTNOTE: — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — Emilio Castelar — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — James A. Garfield — LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION [44] — John Hay — FOOTNOTE: — THE MAN WITH THE MUCK-RAKE [45] — Theodore Roosevelt — FOOTNOTE: — MESSAGE TO THE SQUADRON [46] — Admiral Heihaichiro Togo — FOOTNOTE: — THE MINUTE MAN — George William Curtis — A MORE PERFECT UNION [47] — George William Curtis — FOOTNOTE: — NAPOLEON — Thomas Corwin — NAPOLEON [48] — Robert G. Ingersoll — FOOTNOTE: — NATIONAL CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS [49] — Theodore Roosevelt — FOOTNOTE: — THE NEGRO — Henry W. Grady — NEW ENGLAND — Josiah Quincy — THE NEW SOUTH — Henry W. Grady — DANIEL O'CONNELL [50] — Wendell Phillips — FOOTNOTE: — THE OPEN DOOR — Patrick Henry — ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD [51] — Edwin D. Mead — FOOTNOTE: — THE PERMANENCY OF EMPIRE [52] — Wendell Phillips — FOOTNOTE: — THE PILGRIMS [53] — Wendell Phillips — FOOTNOTE: — PRINCIPLES OF THE FOUNDERS [54] — Edwin D. Mead — FOOTNOTE: — THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WAR [55] — William E. Channing — FOOTNOTE: — SCOTLAND — Edmund Flagg — SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS — Abraham Lincoln — SLAVERY AND THE UNION [56] — Abraham Lincoln — FOOTNOTE: — SUBJUGATION OF THE FILIPINO [57] — George F. Hoar — FOOTNOTE: — SUFFERINGS AND DESTINY OF THE PILGRIMS — Edward Everett — TO ARMS — Louis Kossuth — TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTISM [58] — Bourke Cockran — FOOTNOTE: — A VISION OF WAR [59] — Robert G. Ingersoll — FOOTNOTE: — WAR IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY [60] — Edwin D. Mead — FOOTNOTE: — GEORGE WASHINGTON [61] — Charles Phillips — FOOTNOTE: — IV — GAY, HUMOROUS, COMIC — A BOY'S MOTHER [62] — James Whitcomb Riley — FOOTNOTE: — ALMOST BEYOND ENDURANCE [63] — James Whitcomb Riley — FOOTNOTE: — BREAKING THE CHARM [64] — Paul Laurence Dunbar — FOOTNOTE: — CANDLE-LIGHTIN' TIME [65] — Paul Laurence Dunbar — FOOTNOTE: — A BIRD IN THE HAND — F. E. Weatherly — "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT" [66] — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps — FOOTNOTE: — DE APPILE TREE [67] — Joel Chandler Harris — FOOTNOTE: — MR. DOOLEY ON LA GRIPPE MICROBES — Finley Peter Dunne — A DOCTRINAL DISCUSSION — Harry Stillwell Edwards — FINNIGIN TO FLANNIGAN [68] — S. W. Gillilan — FOOTNOTE: — GAVROCHE AND THE ELEPHANT [69] — Victor Hugo — FOOTNOTE: — THE HAZING OF VALIANT — Anonymous — THE HINDOO'S PARADISE — Anonymous — IF I KNEW — Anonymous — THE IMAGINARY INVALID [70] — Jerome K. Jerome — FOOTNOTE: — JANE JONES [71] — Ben F. King — FOOTNOTE: — KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE [72] — James Whitcomb Riley — FOOTNOTE: — LITTLE BREECHES [73] — John Hay — FOOTNOTE: — THE LOW-BACKED CAR — Samuel Lover — MAMMY'S PICKANIN' — Lucy Dean Jenkins — MANDALAY — Rudyard Kipling — MISTER COON AND MISTER RABBIT [74] — Joel Chandler Harris — FOOTNOTE: — MONEY MUSK — Benjamin F. Taylor — THE ONE-LEGGED GOOSE [75] — F. Hopkinson Smith — FOOTNOTE: — THE PESSIMIST [76] — Ben F. King — FOOTNOTE: — SCHNEIDER SEES LEAH — Anonymous — THE SUPERFLUOUS MAN — John G. Saxe — THE USUAL WAY — Anonymous — THE WEDDING FEE — R. M. Streeter — WHEN MALINDY SINGS [77] — Paul Laurence Dunbar — FOOTNOTE: — WHEN THE COWS COME HOME — Agnes E. Mitchell — V — DRAMATIC NOT IN THE DRAMA — THE CONFESSIONAL — Anonymous — JEAN VALJEAN AND THE GOOD BISHOP [78] — Victor Hugo — FOOTNOTE: — LASCA — Anonymous — MICHAEL STROGOFF, COURIER OF THE CZAR — Jules Verne — MRS. TREE [79] — Laura E. Richards — FOOTNOTE: — THE PORTRAIT — Robert Bulwer Lytton — THE TELL-TALE HEART — A MURDERER'S CONFESSION — Edgar Allan Poe — THE UNCLE — H. G. Bell — VI — SCENES FROM THE DRAMA — THE BELLS — Henry L. Williams — ACT III, SCENE I — THE LADY OF LYONS — Robert Bulwer Lytton — ACT II, SCENE I — ACT III, SCENE II — RIP VAN WINKLE [80] — Washington Irving — ACT I, SCENE I — ACT II, SCENE I — FOOTNOTE: — THE RIVALS — Richard Brinsley Sheridan — ACT I, SCENE II — ACT II, SCENE I — ACT III, SCENE I — ACT IV, SCENE II — BEAU BRUMMELL — Blanchard Jerrold — ACT I, SCENE I — ACT II, SCENE III — THE SET OF TURQUOISE — Thomas Bailey Aldrich — ACT I, SCENE I — ACT I, SCENE II — SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER — Oliver Goldsmith — ACT II, SCENE I — PYGMALION AND GALATEA — W. S. Gilbert — ACT I, SCENE I — ACT III, SCENE I — INDEX OF AUTHORS
2. 2.ANNOUNCEMENTS — BOOKS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING — ESSENTIALS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING — BRITISH AND AMERICAN ELOQUENCE — CHOICE READINGS FROM POPULAR AND STANDARD AUTHORS — STANDARD SELECTIONS — EXTEMPORE SPEAKING — MASTERPIECES OF MODERN ORATORY — VOCAL EXPRESSION IN SPEECH — BOOKS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING — THE MAKING OF ARGUMENTS — THE PRINCIPLES OF ARGUMENTATION — ORAL ENGLISH — BOOKS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING — ELEMENTS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING — THE BRIEF-MAKER'S NOTEBOOK

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