HUMOROUS HITS AND HOW TO HOLD AN AUDIENCE
By GRENVILLE KLEISER
Author of "How to Speak in Public," etc.
A new collection of successful recitations, sketches, stories, poems, monologues. The favorite numbers of favorite authors and entertainers. The book also contains practical advice on the delivery of the selections. The latest and best book for family reading, for teachers, elocutionists, orators, after-dinner speakers, and actors.
Mr. Kleiser gives also some practical suggestions as to the most successful methods of delivering humorous or other selections, so that they may make the strongest impression upon an audience. The book will not only be found to be just what teachers, elocutionists, actors, orators, and after-dinner speakers have been waiting for, but it will also furnish entertaining material to read aloud to the family.
FAVORITE SELECTIONS BY FAVORITE AUTHORS
INCLUDING
| James Whitcomb Riley | W.D. Nesbit |
| Henry Drummond | Thos. Bailey Aldrich |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | Nixon Waterman |
| Edward Everett Hale | Ben King |
| Tom Masson | Walt Whitman |
| Fred. Emerson Brooks | Mark Twain |
| S.E. Kiser | Finley Peter Dunne |
| S.W. Foss | Richard Mansfield |
| Eugene Field | Charles Follen Adams |
| Robert J. Burdette | Charles Batell Loomis |
| Bill Nye | Joe Kerr |
| W.J. Lampton | Wallace Irwin |
| AND MANY OTHERS | |
Cloth, 12mo, 316 pages Price, $1, Net; Post-paid, $1.10
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers
NEW YORK and LONDON