Extempore Speaking, for School and College (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Extempore Speaking, for School and College<br><br>This book, the result of practical experience in the class room, has been prepared to supply a treatise on extempore speaking, primarily for school and college students. The general principles of the science and art of extempore speech were fully treated by Quintilian and others in ancient times, and are also set forth in such modern books as Bautain's "Art of Extempore Speaking," Pittenger's "Extempore Speech," Buckley's "Extemporaneous Oratory," Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "Hints on Writing and Speech-Making," and Brander Matthews' "Notes on Speech-Making." While these authors have been freely consulted in the preparation of this book, their treatises are not adaptable for use as text-books. The present volume aims to present the subject in a manner adapted to the needs of both teachers and students, by reclassifying principles and methods, making the methods as specific in treatment as possible, and by adding, at the end of each chapter and in the Appendix, suggestions and topics for class exercises. A large number of modern speeches have also been incorporated, in order that there might be no lack of illustrative material.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.