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-WWrTrTrr'r' ' wjtwfrwsanns t yt "gjgjSSyjl rsr rfmpr--' "wywpHWiWpi the Commoner. 12 VJ. at, No. 12. . GREAT THOUGHTS GRANDLY SPOKEN . Trrt tt"ti yr 1 !WflF', w "MODERN ELOQUENCE" TN those volumos, the Honorable Thomas B. Reed has," as Secrotary of State John Hay, well says, "gained the samo ominonc as editor that he already JL onjoyod as orator." As the Editor-in-ehiof ho has wrought from metal which he know. Himself a master among master minds, in daily contact with tho makers of our political, literary, commercial and social history, he brought to his editorial work that suroty of judgment born of familiarity, and a comploto mastory of its possibilities. Mr. Rood enlisted, as enly ho could, the assistance of men of international fame and splendid resources. Tho moro physical labor of oxaminmg thousands of possiblo speoches, addrosses and lecturos was onormous. Bosidos tho Editors and tho Committee of seloction, a largo number of collaborators woro enlisted, at homo and abroad, in tho task of interviewing groat spoakors nnd thinkors in porson, and gaining access to unpublished and ordinarily inaccessible records. This necessitated stupendous effort and labor, seem ingly ondloss time, and expense unprocodonted in tho history of book-making, savo perhaps in such monumental works as the Britannica and Century Dic tionary. But this inflnito care, and disregard of oxponso, made Modern Eloquence, as Colonel McClure, tho Nestor of American Journalism, says, "Tho choicostsot of books in my library." After Dinner Speeches (Volumes I, II, III.) Thoso throo volumes of the Library contain tho most uniquoly comprehensive collection of tho thoughts and words of postprandial orators ovor published. About the Banquo -Board, no less than in tho Forum, tho crreat thoucrhts of the . mnsters of tho world havo boon given ox- 3&K prossion. By thorn parties and policies itjwru ui nun uvuu miiuu tiuu iiiimmiti. nv ;hom also the diners and lntnr t.lm wnrlrl lave boon civon the inside viow of rrirrnntin ontorpriso, horculoan effort, and sublimo achievement. In periods, scintillant, with wit, a choato forged now and stronger links m jngjisu ana American unity. The silvor- m tonguod Grady rent tho curtain of sectional prejudice, and brought tho Puritan and Cavalier into a common, congen ial brotllOrllOod. In thnsn TmtTAa livinn mnn anaalr lining (Mark 1 wain.) thoughts in a living tonguo. We sit a Banquet-board with a host of sneakers the hke of which the world has never seen. As Congressman Lan dis,of Indiana, says of theso volumos: "Wo bohold the galleries radiant with fair women. We hoar tho shouts, and the air peals with laughtor thon comos a pause a shock the lightning of wit, and tho thunder of ap plause, men and womon rise, sparkling glasses soar Modern Eloquence transports us, and we are there.' " Lvory speech is reproduced as given, with all tho introductory remarks. Wo havo tho "applause," tho "cheers" and tho "laughtor" of tho guests. T. B. Heed, Editor in Chief. Great Addresses (Volumes VII, VIII, IX.) Those throo volumos contain ono of tho most unique features of this most unique work. Tho addresses delivered at groat ..Urinations, or under tho stimulus of great public interest, arp ofton an epitome, of history, or inci dents and ponods in our national life. Philin Unra a ii uli ".i .-wW -.u m , i r 3 . Lllll wn al HIIIUMfl brings tho Groat Emancipator home? to us in tho "Char acter of Abraham Lincoln;" Henry Van Dyke's "Book, Litoraturo and People," and Balfour's "Tho Pleas ures of Reading," would alono bo sufficient for the book man, but there are a score or two just as good. The range of this work is the marvel of thoso who read it. For hero wo havo Newell Dwight Hillis' "Tho Pulpit in Jfefei .CaJdhLa. Qibb9' "Supremacy of the Catholic Religion" whilo Cardinal Manning, with his W'n.rd- V1. discusses tho "Persecution of tho Jews Blaine, the idol of a decade in American politi cal hfo, in ono of his greatest moments of inspirat on SEte Fa doHnoation of "Garfield, thXn ad Rufus Choate's immortal opic "On the DeiS of ffiSe WoSrftr" VUnd and on wn miirlif. m 'u-j J " 1 TVTv or yaniel Webster." So on ed,tor.al noto e,vo3 the timo, tho place and Uu cVcZKco M&- W.J. Bryan. Classic and Popular Lectures (Volumes IV, V, VI.) The lecture platform has been tho vantago ground from which masterful men have moulded the thoughts of their time and prepared for posterity a bettor, a cleaner, a grander, world to live in. In tho three volumos of Modern Eloquence aevoiea 10 lectures, among other delights, wo travel "Dark Continents" with Stanley, and listen spellbound to Wendell Phillips teachinor us to know tho crrontnef. of tiiamno "Toussaint L'Ouverturo." We listen to tSJl uuuurm uoraon ien us mas patnetic story of the "Last Days of the Confederacy," and douuioio Willi vauurgu iu. oearie, "ivro tnei i-imuous xiaunuoie. wo gainer new am- bitions and strength and purpose as Edward W. Bok gives US his "KeVS to SuRfifiqa" nr wn fnlro V,n-nt- V. u. -:.. of Robort Collyer's "Clear Grit." Ingersoll gives us a bet ter appreciation of immortal Shakcsnearo. In an idln hrmr we recall with Major Pond "Memories of the Lyceum," and Henry W. Grady. x andVJroffhnM JJh "gf on "Milk," or Robort Jones Burdett's "Rise fn ?wi th MSuStai(??- , W? .glonn the wisd6m of our time that lies with withon? S3'nd $ fell0JshiP fith the orators of our mother tongue, tn ? w iPrTu lce JTluy t tho lecture3 navo never bofore been put into typo. Nearly all have tho benefit of the author's revision. Anecdote, Repartee, Reminiscence (Volume X.) ThlS VOlumn ntnnrla nlr.no n1 r..,,U i-it-. a . , - ., T? , 7' iT "vr . ,oui'4U muuug tne xeu volumes or tno sot. Sh Lryr"l ??. lDt,?- Ptondld resources mako pes- , mmiu una collection aosoiutely ropresontativo of the best in American anecdote, repartee and reminiscence. This volume is compiled from exclu sive sources to which only men in the positions of the Edi-tor-in-Ohiof and his associates could havo uccoss. Hero are line stones for tho clergyman, statesman, diplomat,-banker, business man, physician-in fact, for men in all callings and in every walk in life. " '""fa Analytical, Subject and Concordance Index w nS volumo, contains, also, a complete analytical, sub. ind.md2x !" MM it is possiblo to'refor . .j w ttu; oxvuatvoi, Lupic, ume or pjace. y Joseph H. Clioate. Hon. Thomas B. Reed, Editor in Chief. ASSOCIATE EDITORS HON. JUSTIN MCCARTHY, Member of EnnHn 1,-1 1,. ROSSITEU JOHNSON, Author and LiUraUur. c0Am1foRpYEl:SNBERQH, Expert Collahorator' F- S?i?K,?rombor Edltor,al s asassr m mWaUSSUl?S(WEd,lor Clonal MuBoum,, o&JSSgSffr bor Edlt0 S 0nAuJS?Krri.r Un8 f nPrM0fta. 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