GOOD

SELECTIONS,

IN PROSE AND POETRY,

FOR USE IN

SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES, HOME AND CHURCH
SOCIABLES, LYCEUMS AND LITER-

ARY SOCIETIES, ETC.

By W. M. JELLIFFE,

I eacher of Elocution.

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,

1885.

ENTERED according to Avi oi congress, in the year 1872, by

J. W. SCHERMERHORN & viroa ja :he Office of the Librarian of Congress, al Wası'mgion.

Preface.

This work is intended to present, in one handy little

book, SELECTIONS of a character heretofore obtained

only by long and tedious search among many expensive

volumes.

To these are added many new and good pieces, which

t is believed, will be found acceptable.

In the hope that it may help to answer satisfactorily

the question,

• What shall I read ?"

so often and

anxiously put by all who have occasion to read in

public, the following is respectfully submitted by

?. 19 FEBIE

The Compiler.

Now YORK, June 1st, 1871.

Nutk.—To Messrs. J. R Osgood & Co., the compiler is indebted for several of the best pieces in this volume.