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Index
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
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