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The Art of Public Speaking

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By J. Berg Esenwein
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This practical manual offers systematic instruction in public speaking, combining vocal technique, delivery, and composition with exercises for building confidence and control. Topics include avoiding monotony, emphasis and subordination, pitch, pace, pause, inflection, gesture, voice quality, and methods of delivery, together with guidance on feeling, fluency, memory training, vocabulary growth, and mental preparation. It analyzes techniques for influencing audiences by exposition, description, narration, suggestion, argument, and persuasion, and treats crowd speaking, occasional remarks, and conversational effectiveness. Appendices provide debate questions, speech topics, and sample addresses for practice.

FOOTNOTES:

[37] Saguntum was a city of Iberia (Spain) in alliance with Rome. Hannibal, in spite of Rome's warnings in 219 B.C., laid siege to and captured it. This became the immediate cause of the war which Rome declared against Carthage.

[38] From his speech in Washington on March 13, 1905, before the National Congress of Mothers. Printed from a copy furnished by the president for this collection, in response to a request.

[39] Used by permission.

[40] Reported by A. Russell Smith and Harry E. Greager. Used by permission.

On May 21, 1914, when Dr. Conwell delivered this lecture for the five thousandth time, Mr. John Wanamaker said that if the proceeds had been put out at compound interest the sum would aggregate eight millions of dollars. Dr. Conwell has uniformly devoted his lecturing income to works of benevolence.

GENERAL INDEX

Names of speakers and writers referred to are set in CAPITALS. Other references are printed in "lower case," or "small," type. Because of the large number of fragmentary quotations made from speeches and books, no titles are indexed, but all such material will be found indexed under the name of its author.