Notes on Speech-Making

Excerpt from Notes on Speech-Making
The two papers which make up the body of this little book are here reprinted, one from the Cosmopolitan Magazine and the other from the Century. They present two aspects of the same subject; and they are the result of the same impulse, - a desire to set down simply a few hints for those who are seeking to get at some of the fundamental principles of the difficult art of speech-making. Hints they are and no more; and what value they may have is due to the fact that they are the result of the writer's own struggles to discover how he himself could say in public what he had to say without ignominious failure.
In the appendix will be found some practical advice by other writers.
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