Author: George Melville Baker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780243991709

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Excerpt from The Handy Speaker: Comprising Fresh Selections in Poetry and Prose, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, for Reading Clubs, School Declamation, Home and Public Entertainments To still the schoolboys' cry for new pieces, to place in substantial shape many floating gems of poetry and rare bits of humorous story, has been the aim in the preparation of this volume. Combining as it does the contents of four parts of the popular series known as The Reading Club, it presents a variety for read ing and recitation such as is seldom met with in a book of this size. All forms of public and private entertain ment to which Elocution, Delineation, and Mimicry lend their aid, will here find a handy assistant. Pro yiding a class of pieces in frequent demand, ' the young elocutionist will find it a convenient pocket companion; the teacher just the book to spice up with now and then and the general reader may derive amusement at odd moments from its perusal embracing, as it does, the humors of Mark Twain and his fellovv-humorists the happy fancies of Dickens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Handy Speaker written by George Melville Baker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Handy Speaker: Comprising Fresh Selections in Poetry and Prose, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, for Reading Clubs, School Declamation, Home and Public Entertainments To still the schoolboys' cry for new pieces, to place in substantial shape many floating gems of poetry and rare bits of humorous story, has been the aim in the preparation of this volume. Combining as it does the contents of four parts of the popular series known as The Reading Club, it presents a variety for read ing and recitation such as is seldom met with in a book of this size. All forms of public and private entertain ment to which Elocution, Delineation, and Mimicry lend their aid, will here find a handy assistant. Pro yiding a class of pieces in frequent demand, ' the young elocutionist will find it a convenient pocket companion; the teacher just the book to spice up with now and then and the general reader may derive amusement at odd moments from its perusal embracing, as it does, the humors of Mark Twain and his fellovv-humorists the happy fancies of Dickens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.