THE DE WITT SERIES.-Issued Monthly.-Subscription Price $300 per year. VoL I. No. 23. June, 1893. Entered as second class matter at the New York, N. Y. Post Office, August 12, 1891. P Together with a Number of Useful Suggestions as to the Stage Arrangements, EDITED AND COMPILED BY HENRY L. WILLIAMS, Editor of “Webster's Reciter; Or, Elocution Made Easy NEW YORK: THE DE WITT PUBLISHING HOUSE, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by ROBERT M. DE PREFACE. ALL the pieces contained in this book, have been selected with scrupulous care. First-That they should contain no thought or idea calculated to sully the pure mind of youth. For we believe that no depth of intellect, no brilliancy of expression, can palliate the slightest deviation from recititude and morality. Second-That every piece should be the very best of its class; whether that class was expressive of the darker passions or the lighter emotions. 66 We have essayed to "hold the mirror up to Nature as shown by the grandest pictures of the ablest intellectswhether on the stage, in the pulpit or the forum. We have ransacked the hives of literary honey, drawn from the wells of English undefiled," and we present the reader, in this work, such a collection of the best articles from the best authors as it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find in any similar book ever offered for the approbation of the admirer of forensic literature. And now, that we have written of the matter, a word as to the manner: The prime thing to be remembered in all reading and speaking is to so enunciate, pause and emphasize, that every minute shade of the author's intent and mean |