THE ELOCUTIONIST'S ANNUAL NUMBER 8. COMPRISING NEW AND POPULAR READINGS, RECITATIONS, TABLEAUX, ETC., ETC. EDITED BY MRS. J. W. SHOEMAKER, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY. PHILADELPHIA: NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY. 1883. 8/021 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. PREFACE. N this as in the previous numbers of the ELOCUTION IN IST'S ANNUAL, the greatest care has been taken in the choice of material, not only to afford opportunity for the broadest elocutionary training, but also to furnish the amateur reader and the professional elocutionist with the widest range of selections in adaptation to the various occasions on which appropriate selections may be needed. Nor have the wants of the college, the school-room and the fireside been overlooked, but each has received due measure of attention in the preparation of this volume. The repeated inquiries concerning NUMBER EIGHT, and the large number of advance orders already re 5 70676 |