FIGURES ILLUSTRATIVE OF GESTURE, ETC.
BY RUFUS CLAGGETT, A. M.
This book is given to the public with a view to encourage the study and practice of a branch of education which gives a tenfold vigor to all other intellectual acquirements. Thousands of men, otherwise well educated, are often heard to lament their neglect of Elocution in their school-boy days, and their consequent inability to utter in public those thoughts which they would gladly disseminate, and thereby confer a benefit on society.
The Selections in this work are principally from standard American authors, and contain everything which can ennoble the mind and fill it with exalted ideas of patriotism and virtue. At the same time, the price of the book is so low that it can be placed in the hands of every pupil, where, indeed, we are confident it will shortly find its way.