The New Select Speaker Containing Directions for Expressing Written Thought in a Correct and Pleasing Manner.Together with Rules and Exercises for Physical Culture and Elocution.Including Selections for the Little Folks

xii, 464 pp. plates, illust. 4to. 10 x 7 inches. Green illustrated cloth over boards. Green marbled text edges and endpapers. Light soiling to cloth, minor rubbing to corners, interior agetoned but clean, binding tight, illustrated presentation page unused. Sections on composition, letter writing, orations, elocution, recitations, children's selections, patriotic recitations, religious and didactic, temperance, grave and pathetic, humorous, narrative and descriptive, heroic and dramatic, old favorites, Shakepearean, Dialogues, entertainments for every month, etc. Duotone photographic plates featuring Victorian garbed women in various mood poses, plus additional full-page illustrations.