Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY. in the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C

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CONTENTS.

*1. Abbess's Story, The..

2. After Dinner Speech, by a Frenchman...

*3. America.....

*4. Ancient Miner's Story, The..........

NUMBER PAGE

.H. W. Longfellow......XIII. 114

..XIII. 97

...John Ernest McCann... XV. 27

Will Carleton............XIII. 151

5. Anne Boleyn's Rejection of Henry VIII's

First Gift (Tableau).......

XV. 195

*6. Are These God's Children ?.....................Sara M. Chatfield XIV. 133

7. Aristarchus Studies Elocution..................Susan A. Bisbee.........XIII. 12

8. Artist's Dream, The (Tableau).

*9. At Last........

10. Aunt Betsey and Little Davy (Dialogue).

11. Aunt Polly's George Washington.....

*12. Bachelors, The............... ....

13. Balaam's Parables....................

*14. Ballad of the Wicked Nephew..

15. Banford's Burglar Alarm.........

16. Bartholdi's Statue, The..........

*17. Battle of Morgarten.

*18. Be a Woman.

*19. Beautiful Hands.................

*20. Becalmed

*21. Better Things...

*22. Bill and Joe........

23. Brave Aunt Katy...

24. Brudder Yerkes' Sermon....

*25. Burial of the Old Flag, The.

*26. Canada

XIV. 193

........J. G. Whittier...........XIII. 136

.XIII. 174

..........XIII. 64

............XIII. 111

Sir Walter Scott.........XIII. 120

*27. Chase, The...........

*28. Child is Father to the Man, The............. Louisa Bigg.......... XIV. 78

EXPLANATION.-" BEST THINGS FROM BEST AUTHORS, Volume 5, being com-
posed of Numbers thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen of "THE ELOCUTIONIST'S AN-
NUAL," it is necessary to indicate the number as well as the page, each number
being paged independently of the others. The figures on the left margin, pre-
fixed with an asterisk [*], indicate selections in verse; those without the asterisk,
prose selections.

37. Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella (Tableau).

61. Extract from a Eulogy on General Grant...H. W. Beecher........... XIV.

*78. Her Laddie's Picture................................................................Mary B. Brainerd...... XIV. 113

*79. Ho, Boat Ahoy!............

Emma Sophie Stillwell. XIV. 150

80. Humblest of the Earth Children, The....... John Ruskin..............XIII. 57

85. Ireland to be Ruled by Irishmen.............. William E. Gladstone. XV. 56

118. Military Supremacy Dangerous to Liberty. Henry Clay.

135. New Cure for Rheumatism, A.............................R. J. Burdette.......

149. Our First Experience with a Watch Dog....Frank R. Stockton...... XV. 9