MODERN
ELOQUENCE
EDITOR
THOMAS B REED
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
JUSTIN McCARTHY · ROSSITER JOHNSON
ALBERT ELLERY BERGH
VOLUME II
After-Dinner Speeches
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GEO. L. SHUMAN & CO.
CHICAGO
Copyright, 1903
JOHN R SHUMAN
COMMITTEE OF SELECTION
Edward Everett Hale, Author of "The Man Without a
Country."
John B. Gordon, Former United States Senator.
Nathan Haskell Dole, Associate Editor "International
Library of Famous Literature."
James B. Pond, Manager Lecture Bureau; Author of "Eccentricities
of Genius."
George McLean Harper, Professor of English Literature,
Princeton University.
Lorenzo Sears, Professor of English Literature, Brown University.
Edwin M. Bacon, Former Editor "Boston Advertiser" and
"Boston Post."
J. Walker McSpadden, Managing Editor "Édition Royale"
of Balzac's Works.
F. Cunliffe Owen, Member Editorial Staff "New York
Tribune."
Truman A. DeWeese, Member Editorial Staff "Chicago
Times-Herald."
Champ Clark, Member of Congress from Missouri.
Marcus Benjamin, Editor, National Museum, Washington,
D. C.
Clark Howell, Editor "Atlanta Constitution."