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The Greatest Spoken Thou_ 







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Modern 



Eloquehce 



Hon. Thomas B. Reed 



Editor-in-Chief 



ASSOCUn EDITORS 

 Hon. Justin McCarthy 



Member of EngMsh Parlia- 



ment. 



Rossiter Johnson 



Author and Litterateur, 



Albert Ellery Bergh 



Expert Collaborator. 



COMMITTEE OF SEIICTION 

 Edward Everett Hale 



Author of ''The Man With- 

 out a Country,** 



Jonathan P. Dolliver 



U. S, Senator from Iowa. 



John B. Gordon 



Former U. S. Senator from 



Georgia, 



Nathan Haskell Dole 



Associate Editor 



"International Library of 



Famous Literature." 



James B. Pond 



Manager Lecture Bureau, 

 Author of ^'Eccentricities of 



Genius." 



George MacLean Harper 



Professor of English 

 .Literature, 



Princeton University. 



• Lorenzo Sears 



Professor of English Litera- 

 ture» Brown University. 



Edwin M- Bacon 



Former Editor "Boston 

 Advertiser." 



F. Cunliffe Owen 



Member Editorial Staff. 

 New York Tribune." 



J. Walker McSpadden 



Managing Editor, ^^Edition 

 Koyale, of Balzac's Works. 



Marcus Benjamin 



Editor, National Museum. 

 Washington, D. C. 



Truman A. DeWeese 



Member Edtiorial Staff, 

 'Chicago Times -Herald." 



^ William W. Matos 



Member Editorial Staff, 



'Philadelphia Evening 



Telegraph." 



Champ Clark 



Member House of Repre- 

 sentatives from Missouri, 



_^^. Clark Howell 



Editor, "Atlanta Constitu- 

 tion." 



Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed's Splendid Library of the Best After -Dinner Speeches^ 



Classic and Popular Lectures^ Famous Addresses^ Stories^ ete.^ in ten elegant 



volumes, superbly illustrated with fine photogravures and color plates, 



THE LIBRARY Of "MODERN ELOQIENCE" 



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 the lanpnage 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 itiong, trenchant utterance of 



action with the droll fancies of the humorist. , , , , / i u 



We hear the applause and the laughter, we surrender to the spell of the words ; we can feci the 



tense silence as the speaker mounts in his sublimest flights, then hear the outburst of applause ^- 



the audience catches the speaker at his climax. 



One sits at the board where the greatest after-dinner orators, wits and humorists^ arc at 



their best. One listens to those master-minds who from the platform have swayed multitudes 



and held men's minds captive by the magic of their words. , , , , . v x 



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. . ., i i , r i_- i ^.^ a 



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



with a quick thrust, drives home the truth. Here may be seen something of that 

 marvelous power and poise by which BEECHER, single-handed and single- 

 voiced, conquered and calmed the howling mobs in English halls, and won 

 from hostile crowds a hearing for the Union cause. Here the reader, 

 as he feels the thrill of GRADVS immortal words on "The 

 New South," realizes something of the wondrous change 

 of national feeling wrought by "the velvet splendor of 

 that mellow tongue/' and how it was that by that banquet 



speech in a single night the speaker ''4|?^X1^t7*°*'^j 

 national fame." Here such men as GLADSTO^E and 

 CHOATE, EVARTS and CURTIS. HILLIS and GOUGH 

 reveal in their words something of the secret which 

 every aspiring man longs to penetrate — the secret 

 of power over the minds of men- 



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