Chapter 2

TECHNICAL TRAINING

ESTABLISHING THE TONE O Scotia!.......................... _Robert Burns_ O Rome! My Country!................ _Lord Byron_ Ring Out, Wild Bells!.............. _Alfred Lord Tennyson_ Roll On, Thou Deep!................ _Lord Byron_ Thou Too, Sail On!................. _Henry W. Longfellow_ O Tiber, Father Tiber!............. _Lord Macaulay_ Marullus to the Roman Citizens..... _William Shakespeare_ The Recessional.................... _Rudyard Kipling_ The Cradle of Liberty.............. _Daniel Webster_ The Impeachment of Warren Hastings. _Edmund Burke_ Bunker Hill........................ _Daniel Webster_ The Gettysburg Address............. _Abraham Lincoln_

VOCAL FLEXIBILITY Cęsar, the Fighter................. _Henry W. Longfellow_ Official Duty...................... _Theodore Roosevelt_ Look Well to your Speech........... _George Herbert Palmer_ Hamlet to the Players.............. _William Shakespeare_ Bellario's Letter.................. _William Shakespeare_ Casca, Speaking of Cęsar........... _William Shakespeare_ Squandering of the Voice........... _Henry Ward Beecher_ The Training of the Gentleman...... _William J. Tucker_

MAKING THE POINT Brutus to the Roman Citizens....... _William Shakespeare_ The Precepts of Polonius........... _William Shakespeare_ The High Standard.................. _Lord Rosebery_ On Taxing the Colonies............. _Edmund Burke_ Justifying the President........... _John C. Spooner_ Britain and America................ _John Bright_

VALUES AND TRANSITIONS King Robert of Sicily.............. _Henry W. Longfellow_ Laying the Atlantic Cable.......... _James T. Fields_ O'Connell, the Orator.............. _Wendell Phillips_ Justification for Impeachment...... _Edmund Burke_ Wendell Phillips, the Orator....... _George William Curtis_ On the Disposal of Public Lands.... _Robert Y. Hayne_ The Declaration of Independence.... _Abraham Lincoln_

EXPRESSING THE FEELING Northern Greeting to Southern Veterans. ................................... _Henry Cabot Lodge_ Matches and Overmatches............ _Daniel Webster_ The Coalition...................... _Daniel Webster_ In His Own Defense................. _Robert Emmet_ On Resistance to Great Britain..... _Patrick Henry_ Invective against Louis Bonaparte.. _Victor Hugo_

SHOWING THE PICTURE Mount, the Doge of Venice!......... _Mary Russell Mitford_ The Revenge........................ _Alfred Lord Tennyson_ A Vision of War.................... _Robert G. Ingersoll_ Sunset Near Jerusalem.............. _Corwin Knapp Linson_ A Return in Triumph................ _T. De Witt Talmage_ A Return in Defeat................. _Henry W. Grady_

EXPRESSION BY ACTION In Our Forefathers' Day............ _T. De Witt Talmage_ Cassius against Cęsar.............. _William Shakespeare_ The Spirit of the South............ _Henry W. Grady_ Something Rankling Here............ _Daniel Webster_ Faith in the People................ _John Bright_ The French against Hayti........... _Wendell Phillips_ The Necessity of Force............. _John M. Thurston_ Against War with Mexico............ _Thomas Corwin_ The Murder of Lovejoy.............. _Wendell Phillips_

DEPICTING CHARACTER A Tale of the Plains............... _Theodore Roosevelt_ Gunga Din.......................... _Rudyard Kipling_ Address of Sergeant Buzfuz......... _Charles Dickens_ A Natural Philosopher.............. _Maccabe_ Response to a Toast................ _Litchfield Moseley_ Partridge at the Play.............. _Henry Fielding_ A Man's a Man for a That........... _Robert Burns_ Artemus Ward's Lecture............. _Charles Farrar Brown_ Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Belle... _John Hay_ The Trial of Abner Barrow.......... _Richard Harding Davis_