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"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spoakors nnd thinkors in porson, and gaining access to unpublished and ordinarily inaccessible records.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
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Joseph H. Clioate.
Hon. Thomas B. Reed, Editor in Chief.
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