Excerpt from How to Speak Effectively: On the Platform; At the Meeting; In the Pulpit

If it be the earnest desire of the person into whose hands this work may fall to learn how to speak effectively, I would merely beg of him a reasonable amount of his leisure time, and I will do my best to speak to him from the leaves of this book as plainly and as lucidly as I might succeed in doing were he face to face with me in my own studio. Be it remembered that an elocutionist is not necessarily a good author. Of this I am sufficiently conscious, yet I may hope that the bluntness of my construction will prove an advantage rather than otherwise to the practical student. Let us proceed.

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