Delight and power in speech

by Leonard G. Nattkemper; George Wharton James

Names of authors are given in ordinary type.

• A
• Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, [520]
• Adams, Charles F., [338], [393]
• Advance, The Great, [534]
• Adventure, A Startling, [150]
• ” An Unexpected, [258]
• AFTER DINNER SPEAKING, [711]
• Ain’t It the Truth (exercise), [35]
• Aldrich, Thomas B., [490], [665]
• All in the Emphasis, [311]
• Alexander, S. J., [641], [642], [643]
• Alexandra, A Welcome to, [633]
• Americanism, Creed of, [677]
• America and Its Flag, [559]
• ” Music of, [21]
• Analysis, Progressive, [112]
• Ancient Mariner, [49]
• Andersen, Hans C., [191]
• Anderson, Alexander, [427]
• ” John, My Jo, [574]
• Annabel Lee, [430]
• ” The Lover of, [431]
• Apostrophe to the Ocean, [536]
• Apple Blossoms, [588]
• Arena, A Combat in the, [272]
• Arrow and the Song, The, [630]
• ARTICULATION EXERCISES, [27 et seq.]
• As I Came Down from Lebanon, [587]
• Aspirates, [28]
• As You Like It (quoted), [658-59]
• At Grandma’s, [391]
• Authors, Study Great, [2]
• Author’s Thought, Getting the, [7]
• B
• Baby, Rocking the, [434]
• Bacon, Francis, [49]
• Bad Night, A, [131]
• Ballad of the King’s Singer, The True, [498]
• Banishment Scene, [662]
• Bansman, William, [538]
• Barnes, W. H. L., [683]
• Barrett, Wilson, [187]
• Bashford, Herbert, [414], [416], [456], [460], [612], [624]
• Battle Field, The Children of the, [452]
• Beecher, Henry Ward, [iv], [100]
• Belief, Author’s Purpose, [113]
• Bedford-Jones, H., [337]
• Bell Buoy, The, [70]
• Bells of San Gabriel, [631]
• ” of Shandon, [636]
• ” The Minaret, [621]
• Bennett, Henry Holcomb, [525]
• Beside the Dead, [433]
• Betty Botter, [30]
• Bill and His Billboard, [35]
• Billee, Little, [360]
• Bishop and the Convict, The, [220]
• Bishop, Justin Truitt, [142]
• Black Sailor’s Chanty, The, [408]
• Blacksmith of Limerick, The, [503]
• Bland, Henry Meade, [568]
• Blossom Time, In, [607]
• Blossoms, Apple, [588]
• Booth, Gov. Newton, [678]
• Boy Wanted, A, [285]
• ” The Whistling, [358]
• Bosher, Kate Langley, [132]
• Bravest Battle, The, [519]
• Break! Break! Break!, [433]
• Breath Sounds, [28]
• Brook and the Wave, The, [590]
• Brook, Song of the, [603]
• Brooks, Fred Emerson, [331], [343], [345], [348], [357], [358], [385], [408], [481]
• Brookside, The, [579]
• Brotherhood, [540]
• Browne, J. Ross, [131], [146], [150], [245]
• Browning, Elizabeth, [19], [442], [539], [542]
• Browning, Robert, [57], [63], [64], [66], [99], [304], [305], [321], [429], [548], [627]
• Brother, Little, [177]
• Brown Wolf, [183]
• Bryant, William Cullen, [53]
• Bullets, The Song of the, [644]
• Bumpas, Bombardier B., [423]
• Bunner, Henry C., [336]
• Burdette, Robert, [24], [148], [157], [158]
• Buried Heart, The, [434]
• Burns, Robert, [547], [574], [617]
• Butterfly, To a February, [642]
• Byron, Lord, [536]
• C
• Cable, George W., [204]
• California, [606]
• Camp-Meeting at Bluff Springs, [142]
• Camp, Pauline B., [76]
• Captain, O, My Captain, [171]
• Carleton, Will, [507]
• Carmichael, Sarah B., [67], [453]
• Carruth, W. H., [469]
• Cary, Alice, [334], [609]
• Castles, Irish, [344]
• Catacombs of Palermo, [146]
• Cavalier’s Song, The, [473]
• Cave, The Tiger’s, [239]
• Champlain, Legend of Lake, [207]
• Channing’s Symphony, [324]
• Chapman, Arthur, [587]
• Charge, Pickett’s, [481]
• Charlie Jones’s Bad Luck, [412]
• Cheney, Annie Elizabeth, [600], [606]
• Chesterfield, Lord, [27]
• Child, R. W., [250]
• Child of My Heart, [613]
• Child’s Almanac, A, [392]
• Children of the Battlefield, The, [452]
• Chip of the Old Block, A, [193]
• Christmas at Sea, [510]
• ” in India, [634]
• ” Present for a Lady, A, [137]
• Christmas Ring, The, [348]
• Cicely, [332]
• Clarence, The Dream of, [501]
• Clark, James Gowdy, [452], [594]
• Classification of Selections, [113]
• Clearness and Precision in Speech, [85 et seq.]
• Clearness of Thought, [113]
• Coleridge, S. T., [49]
• Colloquial Selections, [327 et seq.]
• Colum, Padraic, [616]
• Columbus, by Joaquin Miller, [626]
• ” Analysis of, [105]
• ” by A. H. Clough, [340]
• Combat in the Arena, A, [272]
• Combination Sounds, [29]
• Co’n Pone’s Hot, When the, [397]
• Conversational Style, [672]
• Convict, The Bishop and the, [220]
• Cooke, Edmund Vance, [396], [404]
• Coolbrith, Ina, [433], [535], [538], [604], [605], [607]
• Cooper, Peter, [585]
• Copper Sin, A Son of, [262]
• Cornwall, Barry, [533]
• Coronation, [521]
• Correct Speech, [12]
• Corson, Hiram, [97], [101]
• Corydon, [665]
• Country, My, [575]
• ” What Is a, [678]
• Courier of the Czar, [233]
• Courtin’, The, [399]
• Cowper, William, [66]
• Crawford, F. Marion, [213]
• Creed of Americanism, [677]
• Crisis, The Present, [25]
• Croly, George, [272]
• Cuddle Doon, [427]
• CULTIVATION OF THE MEMORY, [715 et seq.]
• Cupid Swallowed, [351]
• Cup, The God’s, [643]
• Cy Hopkins, How He Got a Seat, [155]
• D
• Daffodils, [601]
• Daly, T. A., [437]
• Da’ Thief, [437]
• Davis, Richard Harding, [202]
• Dawn, [322]
• Day and the Work, The, [637]
• Daybreak, [627]
• Deacon’s Drive, The, [345]
• Dead Millionaire, The, [585]
• Death in the Wheat, A, [279]
• Death-Song of the Viking, [506]
• Defiance, Dona Maria’s, [211]
• De Fust Banjo, [394]
• Delight in Speech, [12]
• Derndest Gal I Ever Knowed, [414]
• Desert Tragedy, A, [226]
• Desire to Express, [14]
• Destiny of This Republic, [698]
• Dialect Selections, [285 et seq.]
• Dickens, Charles, [54], [61]
• Dickens in Camp, [462]
• Directness, Spirit of, [672]
• Derelict, The, [612]
• Dobell, Sydney, [621]
• Dog, Eulogy on the, [710]
• Doing a Woman’s Work, [125]
• Dona Maria’s Defiance, [211]
• Dora, [445]
• Dot Good for Nodings Dog, [385]
• Dot Long Handled Dipper, [393]
• Doty, Madeleine Z., [177]
• Douglas Squirrel, The, [16]
• Dove, The Voice of the, [586]
• Dowling, Bartholomew, [318], [505], [506]
• Down the Lane, [581]
• Dramatic Selections, [183 et seq.], [469 et seq.]
• Dream of Clarence, The, [501]
• Drifting, [571]
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, [121], [293], [322], [328], [397], [466]
• E
• Each in His Own Tongue, [469]
• East and West, The Ballad of the, [515]
• Education, Object of, [1]
• Educational Value of Reading, [14]
• EFFECTIVE SPEECH, [6 et seq.]
• Efficiency, Inventory of Speech, [11]
• Eliot, Charles W., [671]
• Elliott, Madge, [285]
• Eloquence, True, [v]
• Emphasis, All in the, [311]
• Emerson, R. W., [19], [49]
• Encouragement, [397]
• Enunciation, What Is, [27]
• ” and Pronunciation, [85]
• Eulogy of the Dog, [710]
• EXERCISES, ARTICULATION, [27 et seq.]
• Experience, Reference to, [113]
• Expression, What Is, [13]
• ” Desire for, [14]
• ” Channels of, [14]
• Expressive Speech, [299]
• F
• Face of the Master, The, [172]
• Familiar Faces, The Old, [436]
• Famine, The, [447]
• Fancies, Twilight, [597]
• Far Country, A Voice from a, [175]
• Far Famed Fairy-Tale of Fenella, [36]
• Favorite, His, [352]
• Feel I’m Growing Auld, Gude-Wife, I, [436]
• Fern, The Petrified, [541]
• Few Words from Wilhelm, A, [389]
• Field, Eugene, [354], [360], [413]
• Fields with God, Out in the, [539]
• Finch, Nathan, [440]
• Firing Line, The, [476]
• First Furrow, The, [330]
• Fir Tree, The Little, [191]
• Fisherman’s Story, The, [456]
• Fitch, Anna M., [598]
• Flag Goes By, The, [525]
• Flag, Our, [554]
• Flag, Thanks for America and Its, [559]
• Flower in the Crannied Wall, [322]
• Flume, The Song of the, [598]
• Foley, J. W., [392]
• Fool’s Prayer, A, [549]
• Forests, Windstorm in the, [255]
• Fortunate Isles, The, [583]
• Foss, Samuel Walter, [339]
• French Camp, An Incident of the, [548]
• Friendship, A Jolly Good, [568]
• Funeral of Paradise Bar, The, [364]
• Furnace Room, A Hero of the, [277]
• Furrow, The First, [330]
• Fuzzy-Wuzzy, [417]
• G
• Gallant Third Party, A, [362]
• Garcia, Carrying a Message to, [315]
• Garland, Robert, [522]
• Georges, The Two, [688]
• Genung, [676]
• Germany, To, [487]
• Getting Ready for the Train, [148]
• GETTING THE AUTHOR’S MOOD, [99 et seq.]
• Gettysburg Address, [323], [673]
• Gillian, Strickland W., [602]
• Glides, Various, [48 et seq.]
• Glover, Ellye Howell, [402]
• God, Out in the Fields with, [539]
• God’s Cup, The, [643]
• Goethe, [102]
• Gold, [615], [616]
• Golden Arm, The, [316]
• Grading the Street, [383]
• Grand Rapids Schools, [76]
• Grandma’s, At, [391]
• Grass Shall Cover Me, When the, [535]
• G, Swallowing the, [43]
• Gray Days, The, [24]
• Great Advance, The, [534]
• Great Guest Came, How the, [479]
• Green Things Growing, [601]
• Griffin, Gerald, [595]
• Guerdon, The Worker’s, [322]
• Guiterman, Arthur, [615]
• Gunga Din, [496]
• H
• Hale, Nathan, [440]
• Hamlet’s Declaration of Friendship, [656]
• Hamlet’s Instructions to the Players, [669]
• Hamlet, Scene from, [60], [61]
• Harris, Joel Chandler, [382]
• Harrison, Frederick, [10]
• Harte, Bret, [332], [375], [462]
• Haul Away, Joe!, [407]
• Heart’s Regret, The Land of, [638]
• Heathen Chinee, [375]
• ” ” Parody on, [377]
• He Lifteth Them All to His Lap, [526]
• Henshaw, Sarah Edwards, [315]
• Hero of the Furnace Room, A, [277]
• Hiawatha (quoted), [447]
• Hieroglyphics of Love, The, [288]
• Hills, The Joy of the, [610]
• His Favorite, [353]
• Hoe, The Return of the, [164]
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [66], [625]
• Home Thoughts from Abroad, [58]
• Home, Wounded, [621]
• Honest Poverty, [547]
• Honor of the Woods, The, [198]
• Hood, Thomas, [617]
• How Cy Hopkins Got a Seat, [155]
• Howdy Song, [382]
• How Oswald Dined with God, [477]
• How the Great Guest Came, [479]
• How the Water Comes Down at Lodore, [44]
• HOW TO READ POETRY, [320 et seq.]
• Hubbard, Elbert, [9], [315]
• Hugh Go Goes, [32]
• Hugo, Victor, [220]
• Hullo!, [339]
• Humming Bird, The, [71]
• Humorous Selections, [121], [375 et seq.]
• Hunt, Leigh, [351]
• Hunting, Whale, [245]
• Hunt, Travers’ First, [202]
• Hurrah for the Next That Dies, [318]
• Hymn of the Wind, The, [570]
• I
• I Feel I’m Growing Auld, Gude-Wife, [436]
• If I Darst, [413]
• If I Were King (quoted), [220]
• Il Penseroso, [619]
• Ike Templin, The Misfortunes of, [161]
• Ike Walton’s Prayer, [550]
• Immigration, [421]
• Immortality, Intimations of, [618]
• IMPERSONATION, [654]
• Imph-m, [382]
• Impressiveness of Author’s Thought, [113]
• Inasmuch, [485]
• Inaugural Address, Lincoln’s Second, [684]
• In Blossom Time, [607]
• Incident of the French Camp, An, [548]
• Indian Mother, Song of the, [594]
• Indirection, [590]
• Inflection, [11]
• ” Rising, [45]
• ” Exercises in, [302]
• Inflectional Agility, [48]
• Ingelow, Jean, [622]
• Ingersoll, Robert, [324], [676]
• Intervention of Peter, The, [293]
• Intimations of Immortality, [618]
• Intelligent Reading, [1], [99]
• Intelligible Reading, [1], [99]
• INTRODUCTION, [iii]
• INVENTORY OF SPEECH EFFICIENCY, [11]
• Irish Castles, [344]
• Ironsides, Old, [625]
• Irwin, Wallace, [389], [421]
• Isles, The Fortunate, [583]
• J
• Jackson, Helen Hunt, [498], [521]
• James, George Wharton, [119]
• Jaw, Exercises for the, [27]
• Jeanie Morrison, [424]
• Jim, Lucky, [357]
• Jolly Good Friendship, A, [568]
• John Anderson, My Jo, [574]
• Jones, Sir William, [55]
• Jordan, David Starr, [560], [694]
• Josiah and Symanthy, [408]
• Joyce, Robert Dwyer, [503]
• Joy of the Hills, The, [610]
• Joy of the Human Voice, [100]
• Joy of Reading, [119]
• K
• Kaweah’s Run, [275]
• Keeler, Charles, [407], [408]
• Kelly, Myra, [137]
• Kentucky Philosophy, [379]
• Khaki, A Prayer in, [522]
• Kilmer, Joyce, [611]
• King, Ben, [327]
• King, Clarence, [275]
• King and the Poet, The, [213]
• King’s Singer, The True Ballad of the, [498]
• Kipling, Rudyard, [50], [63], [65], [68], [70], [355], [417], [471], [496], [515], [554], [574], [614], [634]
• Kissing’s No Sin, [412]
• Knowles (William Tell), [68]
• L
• Labor, [543], [629]
• L’Allegro, [629]
• Lamb, Charles, [436]
• Land of Heart’s Regret, The, [638]
• Lane, Down the, [581]
• Last Tattoo, The, [552]
• Leap, Peabody’s, [207]
• Lebanon, As I Came Down from, [587]
• Lee, Annabel, [430]
• ” ” The Lover of, [431]
• Legend of Lake Champlain, [207]
• Le Gallienne, Hesper, [581]
• L’Envoi, [554]
• Les Miserables (quoted), [218]
• Lesson, A Singing, [622]
• Lesson of Life, The, [582]
• Lesson of the Tragedy, The, [694]
• Life and Love, [591]
• Limerick, The Blacksmith of, [503]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [66], [323], [671], [673], [684]
• Lincoln, Abraham, Funeral, [453]
• ” ” Man of the People, [546]
• Lincoln, Abraham, Walks at Midnight, [520]
• Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel, [520]
• Linen, James, [436]
• Lips and Jaw, Exercises for, [28]
• Liquid Sounds, [29]
• Literature, How to Judge, [4]
• ” Ideals in, [2]
• ” Joy in, [4]
• ” Necessity of Love for, [2]
• ” Western, [vii]
• Little Billee, [360]
• ” Brother, [177]
• ” Fir Tree, [191]
• ” Miss Study and Miss Play, [343]
• ” Peach, The, [360]
• ” Lady, When She Fell Ill, [167]
• Living, Daily, [2]
• Lloyd, Robert, [299]
• Lodore, How the Waters Come Down at, [44]
• Longfellow, H. W., [54], [59], [64], [67], [447], [527], [578], [590], [630]
• London, Jack, [183], [259]
• Lotus Eaters, The, [620]
• L’Overture, Toussaint, [686]
• Lost Youth, My, [527]
• Love, Life and, [591]
• ” of Country, [475]
• ” The Hieroglyphics of, [288]
• ” Virtues of, [22]
• Lover of Annabel Lee, [431]
• Lover, Samuel, [381]
• Lowell, James R., [19], [25], [71], [399]
• Lucky Jim, [357]
• Lullaby, Mammy’s, [602]
• Lyric Selections, [554 et seq.]
• M
• Mahony, Francis, [635]
• Majesty of the Ocean, [23]
• Malooney, Mistur, [383]
• Mammy’s Lullaby, [602]
• Mandalay, [614]
• Man in the Shadow, The, [250]
• Man Under the Stone, The, [486]
• Man Who Wears the Button, The, [103]
• Man with the Hoe, The, [470]
• Markham, Edwin, [311], [470], [477], [479], [485], [486], [540], [546], [610], [613], [637]
• Martin, William Wesley, [588]
• Mary’s Night Ride, [204]
• Mary Cary (quoted), [132]
• Master, The Face of the, [172]
• Mastery of a Selection, [111]
• Match, A, [589]
• Mathews, Amanda, [288]
• McCarthy, J. H., [220]
• McClung, Littell, [362]
• M’Cluskey, Kate Wisner, [600]
• McIntyre, Robert, [526]
• McKillip-Stanwood, [125]
• McNeal, The Ride of Jennie, [507]
• McTeague (quoted), [226]
• Meadow Larks, [604]
• MELODIOUS READING, [301 et seq.]
• Memorabilia, [99]
• Memory, Pictures of, [609]
• M-Made Memory Medley, My, [37]
• Mermaid, Who Would Be a, [73]
• Memorial Day Address, [700]
• MEMORY, CULTIVATION OF, [714 et seq.]
• Merchant of Venice (quoted), [654]
• Message to Garcia, [9], [315]
• Michael Strogoff, Courier of the Czar, [233]
• Mighty Majestic Mind, [40]
• Millionaire, The Dead, [585]
• Miller, Joaquin, [105], [465], [477], [519], [583], [584], [585], [586], [626]
• Milnes, Richard Monckton, [579]
• Milton, John, [619]
• Minaret Bells, The, [621]
• Misfortunes of Little Ike Templin, [161]
• Mitchell, Ruth Comfort, [351]
• Mocking-Bird in California, To a, [561]
• Montague, James J., [330]
• Mood-Analysis, [102], [317]
• Moo-Cow-Moo, [396]
• Moon-Cradle, The, [600]
• Morning, [540]
• Morrison, Jeanie, [424]
• Mother and Poet, [442]
• Motherwell, William, [424]
• Mountain Mist, The, [581]
• Mournful Tale of the Snee Zee Familee, [353]
• Muir, John, [16], [255], [258]
• ” Poem on, [569]
• Mulock, Dinah, [601]
• Mundy, Talbot, [50]
• Music of America, The, [21]
• My Country, [575]
• My Heart Leaps Up, [322]
• My Love’s Like a Red Rose, [617]
• My Rival, [355]
• My Sword Song, [628]
• Mystic, Song of the, [531]
• N
• Napoleon and Coat of Mail, [20]
• Nasal Sounds, [29]
• Nathan Foster, [121]
• Nathan Hale, [440]
• Nattkemper, Leonard G., [403], [419], [420], [621]
• Nature in Verse, [58]
• Newbrasky’s Fertile Shore, On, [416]
• Newman, Cardinal, [676]
• Night, A Bad, [131]
• Night Ride, Mary’s, [204]
• Norris, Frank, [226], [279]
• No Shootin’ Off This Year, [406]
• O
• O’Brien, Fitz-James, [344]
• O Captain, My Captain, [171]
• Ocean, Apostrophe to the, [536]
• ” Majesty of, [23]
• Octopus, The (quoted), [279]
• Oh, I Dunno, [380]
• Old Familiar Faces, The, [436]
• Old Ironsides, [625]
• Old Times, [595]
• Old Woman of the Road, The, [616]
• One, Two, Three, [337]
• On Newbrasky’s Fertile Shore, [416]
• Opportunity, [476]
• ORAL READING, [13], [116 et seq.]
• ” ” AND THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEECH, [671 et seq.]
• Order for a Picture, An, [344]
• Orphan, An Unthankful, [132]
• Oswald Dined with God, How, [477]
• Othello’s Apology, [657]
• Our Flag, [554]
• Out in the Fields with God, [539]
• Outline, Condensed, [116]
• Overworked Reciter, An, [156]
• Owen, J. J., [537]
• Ownership, [605]
• P
• Palate, Exercises for the Soft, [28]
• Palermo, Catacombs of, [146]
• Paradise Bar, The Funeral at, [364]
• Passin’ By, [423]
• Pathetic Selections, [167 et seq.], [423 et seq.]
• Patriot, The, [429]
• Pauline Pavlovna, [490]
• Paul, St., [22]
• Pause, A Study of, [311]
• ” Kinds of, [313]
• Pavlovna, Pauline, [490]
• Peabody’s Leap, [207]
• Perry, James Raymond, [323]
• Personality, Pleasing, [12]
• Pessimist, The, [327]
• Peter Cooper, [589]
• Peter, The Intervention of, [293]
• Petrified Fern, The, [541]
• Phillips, Wendell, [686]
• Phyfe’s Words Mispronounced, [88]
• Picture, An Order for a, [334]
• Pictures of Memory, [609]
• Pierpont, John, [524]
• Pioneer Celebration Speech, [679]
• Pippa Passes, Song from, [57], [58], [627]
• Pisgah Sight, [321]
• Pitch, A Study of, [306]
• Pittsinger, Eliza A., [597]
• Plain Language from Truthful James, [375]
• Poe, Edgar Allan, [70], [430]
• Poet, The King and the, [213]
• Poetical Selections, [334 et seq.]
• POETRY, HOW TO READ, [328 et seq.]
• Poor Little Birdies, The, [363]
• Potion Scene from Romeo and Juliet, [660]
• Poverty, Honest, [547]
• Prayer, A Fool’s, [549]
• Prayer in Khaki, A, [522]
• President Lincoln’s Funeral, [453]
• Pronunciation, What Is, [27]
• PRONUNCIATION AND ENUNCIATION, [82 et seq.]
• Pronunciation, Drill in, [88]
• ” Key to, [88]
• Prose Selections, [119 et seq.]
• Proteus, [23]
• Progressive Analysis, [112]
• Put Flowers on My Grave, [435]
• R
• Rainy Day, A, [402]
• Read, Thomas Buchanan, [63], [67], [571]
• READING AND PUBLIC SPEECH, [1 et seq.]
• Reading, Intelligent, [vii]
• ” Intelligible, [vii], [99]
• READING, MELODIOUS, [vii], [301 et seq.]
• READING, ORAL, [13]
• Realf, Richard, [590], [591], [592], [628]
• Recessional, The, [574]
• Reciprocity, [337]
• Reciter, An Overworked, [156]
• Red Rose, My Love Is Like a, [617]
• Redwoods, The, [683]
• Reed, Myrtle, [172]
• Republic, The Destiny of This, [698]
• Reese, Lowell Otus, [438]
• Return of the Hoe, The, [164]
• Revenge, The, [512]
• Rhodes, W. H., [688]
• Ricker, R., [20]
• Ride of Jennie McNeal, [507]
• Righteous Wrath, [536]
• Riley, James Whitcomb, [71], [550]
• Rising Inflection, Overcoming, [45]
• Rival, My, [355]
• Rivals, The, [328]
• Roads, The Old Woman of the, [616]
• Robertson, Harrison, [379]
• Rocking the Baby, [434]
• Romeo and Juliet (quoted), [660]
• Rory O’More, [381]
• Rowan (Message to Garcia), [9]
• Ruskin, John, [3]
• Russell, Irwin, [394]
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• S
• Sandpiper and I, [71]
• Sand Storm, The, [438]
• San Gabriel, The Bells of, [631]
• Santa Claus Forgot, Why, [460]
• School’s Commenced, [403]
• Scollard, Clinton, [581], [587]
• Scott, John Milton, [552], [554], [559], [561], [644]
• Scott, Sir Walter, [51], [55], [64], [70], [305], [472], [475]
• Scripture, E. W., [75]
• Sea, The, [533]
• ” Christmas at, [510]
• ” Wolves of the, [624]
• Seamstress, Song of the, [592]
• Seat, How Cy Hopkins Got a, [155]
• Selections, How Made, [vi]
• Settling Under Difficulties, [157]
• Serenade, [578]
• Seven Ages, The, [658]
• S-H-H-H!, [388]
• Shakespeare, [9], [51], [53], [55], [56], [57], [60], [61], [69], [71], [309], [310], [501], [654], [656], [657]
• Shandon, The Bells of, [636]
• Shortridge, S. M., [700]
• She Liked Him Rale Weel, [387]
• Shelley, P. B., [51]
• Shoup, Paul, [364]
• Sierra Nevada, [16]
• Sierras, To the, [537]
• Sign of the Cross, [187]
• Sill, E. Rowland, [53], [476], [540], [549]
• Similar Case, A, [353]
• Simon Short’s Son Samuel, [33]
• Singing Lesson, A, [622]
• Sir Galahad, [475]
• Sleep, [542]
• Smart, Frank Preston, [322]
• Smike (Dickens), [54]
• Smith, Lewis Worthington, [527]
• Snee Zee Familee, The Mournful, Tale of the, [353]
• Sodding as a Fine Art, [158]
• Solitude Preferred to Court Life, [659]
• Sombre, [267]
• Something to Love, [538]
• Somewhere Adown the Years, [577]
• Song, My Sword, [628]
• ” of the Brook, [603]
• ” of the Bullets, [644]
• ” of the Flume, [598]
• ” of the Indian Mother, [594]
• ” of the Mystic, [531]
• ” of the Seamstress, [592]
• ” of Spring, [592]
• ” The Arrow and the, [630]
• ” The Cavalier’s, [473]
• Son of Copper Sin, A, [262]
• Soule, Frank, [543]
• Soul Sublime, [41]
• Southey, Robert, [44]
• Speaker, How to Become a Good, [2]
• SPEECH, DEFECTS, CORRECTION OF, [75]
• SPEECH, EFFECTIVE, [6]
• SPEECH EFFICIENCY, INVENTORY OF, [11]
• Speech, Enjoyment of, [iii]
• ” Expressive, [299]
• ” Force and Rate of, [62]
• ” Importance of, [iii], [iv]
• Spinning Wheel Song, The, [580]
• Springtime, [621]
• Squirrel, The Douglas, [16]
• Stammerer, Characteristics of, [77]
• Stammering, How to Cure, [75]
• Startling Adventure, A, [150]
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• Sterling, George, [487], [489]
• Stewart, Dennar, [432]
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• Stokes, William, [319]
• Straight Jacket, Torture of the, [259]
• Story, William Wetmore, [267]
• ” Judge, [698]
• Stott, Roscoe Gilmore, [21]
• Stress, A study in, [308]
• Strogoff, Michael, Courier of the Czar, [233]
• STUTTERING AND LISPING, [75]
• Sublime Selections in Poetry, [531 et seq.]
• Sub-Vocal Sounds, [28]
• Sunset, [538]
• Sunshine, [331]
• Sutherland, Howard V., [570]
• Swallowing the G, [43]
• Swinburne, A. C., [589]
• Switch-Engine (exercise), [43]
• Sympathetic Reading, [98]
• Symphony, Channing’s, [324]
• T
• Tan, Under the, [527]
• Tattoo, The Last, [552]
• Teacher’s Great Task, [13]
• Tennyson, Alfred, [50], [59], [66], [69], [74], [322], [433], [475], [512], [603], [620], [633]
• Thackeray, W., [360], [621]
• Thanks for America and Its Flag, [559]
• Thaxter, Celia, [72]
• Theme, Mastery of, [111]
• Theophilus Thistle (exercise), [35]
• There Was a Man, [560]
• Thief, Da, [435]
• Third Party, A Gallant, [377]
• Thoughts from Bub, [419]
• Thurru’ Rest, A, [405]
• Thurston, John Mellen, [103]
• Tiger’s Cave, The, [239]
• To a Usurper, [354]
• To Germany, [487]
• Tommy, [471]
• Tompkins, Juliet Wilbur, [193]
• Tongue, Exercises for, [28]
• ” Twisters, [30]
• Tone, Study of Importance of, [313]
• Torture of Strait-Jacket, [259]
• To the War Lords, [489]
• Toussaint L’Overture, [686]
• Tracey, Frederick Palmer, [678]
• Tragedy, A Desert, [226]
• ” The Lessons of the, [694]
• Tragic Story, A, [362]
• Trailman, The, [569]
• Tramp, The Young, [339]
• Travers’ First Hunt, [202]
• Trees, [611]
• True Ballad of King’s Singer, [498]
• Truthful James, Plain Language from, [375]
• Truthful James, Parody on, [377]
• Twain, Mark, [316]
• Twilight Fancies, [577]
• Two Georges, The, [688]
• U
• Understaendlich, [404]
• Under the Tan, [527]
• Unexpected Adventure, An, [258]
• Unthankful Orphan, An, [132]
• Usual Way, The, [341]
• Usurper, To a, [354]
• V
• Van Dyke, Henry, [4], [57], [71], [72], [536]
• Vegetable Man, The, [420]
• Vengeance Is Thine, [641]
• Verne, Jules, [233]
• Vest, Senator, [710]
• Viking, The Death-Song of the, [506]
• Villon, Story of, [213]
• Vinegar Man, The, [351]
• Virtues of Love, [22]
• Vision Rises, A, [676]
• Vision of War, [324]
• Vocalization of Selections, [115]
• Voice and Spiritual Education, [97]
• ” Use of, [11]
• ” of the Dove, [586]
• ” from a Far Country, [174]
• Vowel Sounds, Various, [89]
• W
• Wagner, Madge Morris, [434]
• Waller, John Francis, [580]
• Walsh, Thomas, [534]
• Walton’s Prayer, Ike, [550]
• War, [474]
• War Lords, To the, [489]
• Warren’s Address, [524]
• Warren, Joseph, [310]
• Waterhouse, A. J., [353], [363], [412], [463]
• Wave, The Brook and the, [590]
• Webster, Daniel, [v]
• Webster’s International Dictionary, [88]
• Welcome to Alexandra, [633]
• West, The, [600]
• West, The Ballad of the East and, [515]
• Western Literature, [vii]
• Whale Hunting, [245]
• What Is Our Country, [678]
• Wheat, A Death in the, [279]
• When de Co’n Pone’s Hot, [397]
• When the Grave Shall Cover Me, [535]
• When the Little Lady Fell Ill, [167]
• When Little Sister Came, [465]
• When the Old Man Dreams, [463]
• When the Old Man Smokes, [466]
• Where the West Begins, [587]
• Whistling Boy, The, [359]
• Whitaker, Herman, [262]
• ” Robert, [575], [577]
• Whitman, Walt, [171]
• Why?, [608]
• Why Santa Claus Forgot, [460]
• Wilder, Marshall P., [155]
• Wilhelm, A Few Words from, [389]
• Wind, Hymn of the, [570]
• Windstorm in the Forests, [255]
• Wilson, Woodrow, Inaugural Address, [675]
• Wilson, Woodrow, Exercise on, [35]
• Wolf, Brown, [183]
• Wolves of the Sea, The, [624]
• Woodchuck Exercise, [30]
• Woods, The Honor of the, [198]
• Wordsworth, William, [322], [601], [618]
• Words Often Mispronounced, [88]
• Wordy Wabble on Women, [42]
• Work and the Worker, [20]
• Worker’s Guerdon, The, [322]
• Work, The Day and the, [637]
• Wounded, Home, [621]
• Wrath, Righteous, [536]
• Y
• Yankee Man of War, The, [523]
• Years, Somewhere Adown the, [577]
• Yosemite, [584]
• Young Tramp, The, [339]
• Youth, My Lost, [527]