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Practical Recitations
Selections for Literary Exercises APPROPRIATE FOR Reception-Days, Holidays, Poets’ Birthdays, etc. , INCLUDING CONCERT AND MUSICAL RECITATIONS, AND DIALOGUES FROM POPULAR AUTHORS, ESPECIALLY ARRANGED FOR THIS WORK.
BY Caroline B. LeRow, Instructor in Elocution, Central School, Brooklyn, and formerly Instructor in Vassar and Smith Colleges.
NEW YORK: Clark & Maynard, Publishers, 771 Broadway and 67 & 69 Ninth Street.
A Practical Reader.
WITH EXERCISES IN VOCAL CULTURE.
By CAROLINE B. LeROW,
Instructor in Elocution, Central School, Brooklyn, and formerly at Smith and Vassar Colleges.
All students are expected to be able to read well ordinary prose and poetry, and it is for the purpose of helping them to do this, as well as to help teachers in the teaching of reading, that this book is prepared.
It is thoroughly practical. No unnecessary technical terms are used. The subjects explained and illustrated are those only which, as the result of many years’ experience among teachers as well as pupils, the compiler has found most necessary.
Caroline B. Le Row
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Practical Recitations.
MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS.
After Vacation.
The People’s Holidays.
Home Lights.
Concerning Beginnings and Ends.
A Strange Experience.
The Daily Task.
“What’s the Lesson for To-day?”
Moral Courage.
No Work the Hardest Work.
Some Old School-books.
Their Cost.
The Old Reading Class.
Forward.
Her Angel.
Are the Heroes Dead?
Labor.
The Holy Place.
A Discourse of Buddha.
Sparrows.
The Storming of Stony Point.
Humility.
What of That?
The Old Folks in the New School-house.
The Barbarous Chief.
Growth.
A Bird’s Ministry.
Extract from a Letter.
The Coast-Guard.
A Turkish Tradition.
“Eyes that See Not.”
Lamentation of the Lungs.
The Light-house.
A Swedish Poem.
The Demon on the Roof.
Only a Little.
My Portion.
Saxon Grit.
The Little Light.
Wind and Sea.
Happiness.
An Illumined Text.
The King’s Bell.
Noblesse Oblige.
Uses of Adversity.
The Value of Literature.
True Heroism.
The Burial of the Old Flag.
The Old Stone Basin.
Beside the Railway Track.
A Song for the Conquered.
The Amen of the Rocks.
Only a Little Thing.
The Little Messenger of Love.
Original Maxims of George Washington.
The Work of a Sunbeam.
The Silver Bird’s Nest.
Luther.
Original Maxims of James A. Garfield.
The Angel of Dawn.
Questions.
The Landing of the Pilgrims.
The Twenty-first of February.
Forefathers’ Day.
A True Story.
Little Christel.
CONCERT RECITATIONS.
Songs of the Seasons.
The Coming of Spring.
The Good Time Coming.
The Charge at Waterloo.
Summer Storm.
Song of the Steamer Engine.
The Child on the Judgment-Seat.
The Two Glasses.
The Sorrow of the Sea.
The Death of our Almanac.
Two Epitaphs.
The Cataract of Lodore.
Cavalry Song.
RECITATIONS FOR MUSIC.
The Angelus.
Hope’s Song.
The Sunrise Never Failed us Yet.
A Winter Song.
The Concert Rehearsal.
Rock of Ages.
Poets’ Birthdays.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
William Cullen Bryant.
A Bryant Alphabet.
The Third of November.
The Night Journey of a River.
The Hurricane.
Green River.
The Violet.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
Emerson.
An Emerson Alphabet.
Extract from “Compensation.”
The Concord Fight.
Extract from “Works and Days.”
Art.
The Rhodora.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Our Autocrat.
A Holmes Alphabet.
Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge.
The Two Streams.
International Ode.
James Russell Lowell’s Birthday Festival.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
A Longfellow Alphabet.
Musings.
The City and the Sea.
Loss and Gain.
Charles Sumner.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
James Russell Lowell.
A Lowell Alphabet.
The First Snow-fall.
Abraham Lincoln.
Wendell Phillips.
Freedom.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
To John G. Whittier.
A Whittier Alphabet.
The Moral Warfare.
My Country.
The Light that is Felt.
DECORATION DAY.
Decoration Day.
Between the Graves.
Red, White, and Blue.
The Heroes’ Day.
Decoration Hymn.
Flowers for the Brave.
Memorial Day.
THANKSGIVING.
Thanksgiving Day.
Thanksgiving among the Greeks.
Thanksgiving among the Jews.
The First English Thanksgiving in New York.
How the Pilgrims gave Thanks.
The First National Thanksgiving.
Washington’s Proclamation.
The First Boston Thanksgiving—July, 1630.
Thanksgiving for his House.
Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Ode.
Elsie’s Thanksgiving.
Thanksgivings of Old.
CHRISTMAS.
The Day of Days.
Christmas in Olden Time.
A Christmas Thought about Dickens.
The Star in the West.
The Little Mud-Sparrows.
A Christmas Question.
Wings.
The Nativity.
Christmas Bells.
Christmas Roses.
NEW-YEAR’S.
Address to the New Year.
A New Year.
A Wish.
Another Year.
The Child and the Year.
THE SEASONS.
A Song of Waking.
“Early Spring.”
May.
June.
Golden-rod.
Indian Summer.
September, 1815.
October.
Faded Leaves.
November.
Winter.
December.
January.
Frost Work.
FLOWERS.
No Flowers.
Ferns.
Sweet Peas.
The Trailing Arbutus.
A Bunch of Cowslips.
Daffodils.
Chrysanthemums.
Roses.
The Message of the Snowdrop.
Ragged Sailors.
DIALOGUES.
The Queen’s Necklace.
Queen Isabella’s Resolve.
The Mill on the Floss.
The Hills of the Shatemuc.
Mistress and Maid.
The Last Days of Pompeii.
Ruth Hall.
Diogenes and Plato on Pride.
Lorna Doone.
The Musical Instrument.
Put Yourself in His Place.
Pilgrim’s Progress.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet.
Metaphysics.
Work: A Story of Experience.
Ninety-Three.
