' The Greatest Spoken Thought of the Nineteenth Century" 



MODERN ELOQUENCE 



THOMAS B. REED, Editor-in Chief 



A Few of the Many Contributors 



Joseph H. Choate 

 Lord Beaconsfield 

 James G. Blaine 

 William M. Evarts 

 John Hay 

 King Edward VII 

 Richard Olney 

 Oliver Wendell Holmes 

 Sir Henry Irving 

 Charles A. Dana 

 Robert J. Burdette 

 Russell H. Conwell 

 Canon Farrar 

 John B. Gough 

 Andrew Lang 

 Wendell Phillips 

 Josh Billings 

 Henry Cabot Lodge 

 Carl Schurz 

 Wu Ting Fang 

 Lyman Abbott 

 Charles Dudley Warner 

 William Cullen Bryant 

 Rufus Choate 

 Theodore Roosevelt 

 Arthur J. Balfour 

 Jonathan P. Dolliver 



Edward Eggleston 

 Horace Porter 

 William E. Gladstone 

 Chauncey M. Depew 

 Edward Everett Hale 

 Henry Ward Beecher 

 Mark Twain 

 Henry W. Grady 

 Joseph Jefferson 

 Robert G. Ingersoll 

 Seth Low 



William MfKinley 

 George William Curtis 

 Artemus Ward 

 John B. Gordon 

 William J. Bryan 

 W. Bourke Cochran 

 Newell Dwight Hillis 

 John Morley 

 John Ruskin 

 Paul Du Chaillu 

 Henry M. Stanley 

 Henry Watterson 

 Charles Francis Adams 

 John L. Spaulding 

 Justin McCarthy 

 James M. Beck 



Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed' s Splendid Library of the best After-dinner Speeches, 



Classic and Popiilar Lectiires, Famous Addresses, Reminiscence, 



Repartee, and Story, in ten handsome volumes, illustrated 



with fine photogravures and Color Plates. 



THE LIBRARY OF "MODERN ELOQUENCE" 



Stands without a peer. Nothing like it was ever attempted before. Edited by one of the greatest of Modern 

 Leaders of Men, Ex=Speaker Thomas B. Reed (assisted by a corps of editors famous wherever English is heard), 

 " Modern Eloquence " is the masterpiece of one who has lived close to those who made the history of our times. 



In these volumes the reader runs the whole gamut of eloquence, from laughter to tears, from pathos to 

 ridicule ; keen satire is mingled with unctuous humor ; the strong, trenchant utterance of action with the droll 

 fancies of the humorist. 



We see the speaker, we hear the laughter, we surrender to the spell of the words ; we can feel the tense 

 silence as the speaker mounts in his sublimest flights, then hear the outburst of applause as the audience catches 

 the speaker at his climax. 



One sits at the banquet board where the greatest after-dinner orators, wits, and humorists are at their best 

 One listens to those master-minds who from the platform have swayed multitudes and held men's minds cap- 

 live by the magic of their words. 



These are the books for the home for an idle hour for the days and nights of preparation for an 

 evening's entertainment for the future. They are filled with living thoughts for living men. 



Here DEPEW puts you off your guard with a laugh, before his keen blade, with a quick thrust 

 drives home the truth. Here maybe seen something of that marvelous power and poise by which 

 BEECHER, single-handed and single-voiced, conquered and calmed the howling mobs in English y ,- f . f - 

 halls, and won from hostile crowds a hearing for the Union cause. Here the reader, as he feels the 7 /J 

 thrill of GRADY'S immortal words on "The New South," realizes something of the wondrous J /J Portfolio 

 change of national feeling wrought by " the velvet splendor of that mellow tongue." and how J --'x Mailed Free 

 it was that by that banquet speech in a single night the speaker "leaped into national fame." / .--J 

 Here such men as GLADSTONE and CHOATE, EVARTS and CURTIS, HILLIS and /^,/John D.Morris 

 GOUGH reveal in their words something of the secret which every aspiring man longs to /.$-S & Co. 



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