THE MACMILLAN COMPANY ATLANTA • SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO PUBLIC SPEAKING THE ESSENTIALS OF EXTEMPORE SPEAKING AND OF GESTURE BY JOSEPH A. MOSHER, PH.D. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SPEAKING, COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ETC. New York 1917 All rights reserved Edre (AAR VR COLLEEN NOV 8 1917 COPYRIGHT, 1916 AND 1917, Two volumes in one. October, 1917. Norboood Press Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. PREFACE The following pages aim to embody in clear and concise form the essentials of practical, extempore speaking. No attempt is made to add to the bibliography of oratory, which is already adequate. This can hardly be said, however, of the bibliography of practical address. A few admirable books on this phase of public speaking have appeared within recent years, but much that is helpful in the way of new viewpoints and new methods of presentation remains to be written. To distinguish between the aim of the writer on oratory and the purpose of the present treatise, I quote from a book,* recently republished in this country, which represents the oratorical viewpoint: “Once face to face, and at grappling point with his idea, he (the orator] will forget everything else. He will no longer see anything save the thought which he has to manifest, the feeling of his heart which he has to communicate. His voice, which just now was so tremulous and broken, will acquire assurance, authority, bril*"The Art of Extempore Speaking," by Abbé Bautain. |