PRACTICAL ELOCUTION;

FOR USE IN

COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS

AND BY

PRIVATE STUDENTS.

BY

J. W. SHOEMAKER, A.M.,
President of the National School of Elocution and Oratory.

We could not allow him an orator who had the best thoughts,
and who knew all the rules of rhetoric, if he had not acquired
the art of using them.-DRYDEN.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. W. SHOEMAKER AND COMPANY,

1418 CHESTNUT STREET.

1878.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by

J. W. SHOEMAKER,

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CULBERTSON & BACHE, PRINTERS,

727 JAYNE STreet.

PHILAD'A.

To the Students

OF THE

NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY,

TO WHOSE

ENTHUSIASM, FAITHFULNESS AND Loyalty

THE AUTHOR IS INDEBTED FOR SO MUCH STRENGTH AND

INSPIRATION IN HIS WORK,

AND WHOSE MEMORY HE CHERISHES WITH

NEXT TO A PARENT'S LOVE,

THIS BOOK

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.