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• Readers and speakers

• Delight and power in speech; a universal dramatic reader (The Radiant life press, 1919), by Leonard G. Nattkemper and George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Text-book of prose; from Burke, Webster, and Bacon. (Ginn & Co., 1889), by Henry Norman Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winning declamations and how to speak them : in two parts (New York city : L.A. Noble, [1917], 1917), by Edwin Du Bois Shurter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readings and recitations for Jewish homes and schools (The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1911), by Isabel E. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern science reader, with special reference to chemistry (The Macmillan company;, 1911), by R. M. Bird (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Camp life reader and workbook. Language usage series, no. 1-4. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1939), by Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philippine national literature. (Macmillan, 1924), by Harriott Ely Fansler and I. Panlasigui (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The background series of English readers. (Commercial Press, 1925), by Annina Periam Danton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Eagle, a story of Indian life (Laidlaw Brothers, 1931), by Therese Deming, Edwin Willard Deming, and Milo Burdette Hillegas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indians in winter camp, a story of Indian life (Laidlaw Brothers, 1931), by Therese Deming, Edwin Willard Deming, and Milo Burdette Hillegas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Red people of the wooded country, a story of Indian life (Laidlaw, 1932), by Therese Deming, Edwin Willard Deming, and Milo Burdette Hillegas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of nature myths (Houghton, Mifflin, 1902), by Florence Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• A phonetic reader for use in junior classes (University Press;, 1919), by Catherine F. Mackenzie and Philippa W. Drew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new world; college readings in English. (The Macmillan company, 1927), by Harold Lawton Bruce and Guy Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advanced readings and recitations (Lee and Shepard, 1881), by Austin Barclay Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection from the world's great orations illustrative of the history of oratory and the art of public speaking. (A.C. McClurg & company, 1904), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern literature for oral interpretation : practice book for vocal expression (The Century Co., 1926), by Gertrude Elizabeth Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The school speaker and reader (Ginn & company, 1900), by William De Witt Hyde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The humorous speaker; a book of humorous selections for reading and speaking (Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1909), by Paul M. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A. Douai's series of rational readers, combining the principles of Pestalozzi's and Froebel's systems of education. With a systematic classification of English words, by which their pronunciation, orthography and etymology may be taught readily without the use of any new signs. (E. Steiger, 1872), by Adolf Douai (page images at HathiTrust)
• American classics for seventh and eighth grade reading; with biographical sketches, portraits and suggestions for study. (Houghton Mifflin company, 1909), by Hanson Hart Webster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nature readers. Sea-side and way-side. no.1-4. (D. C. Heath, 1892), by Julia McNair Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progressive course in reading. First[-fifth] book... (Butler, Sheldon & company, 1899), by George I. Aldrich and Alexander Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American educational readers : First[-fifth] reader (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1873) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young folks̕ book of poetry, containing a collection of the best short and easy poems for reading and recitation in schools and families (Lee and Shepard;, 1880), by Loomis J. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the day's work (Ginn and company, 1921), by Roy Davis and Frederick Gardner Getchell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Kipling reader for elementary grades. (D. Appleton and company, 1912), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The juvenile speaker; comprising elementary rules and exercises in declamation, with a selection of pieces for practice. (Harper, 1873), by Francis Thayer Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The etymological reader. (E.H. Butler & company, 1872), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard fifth reader. (J.L. Shorey, 1871), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swinton's advanced first, second reader. (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Company, 1886), by William Swinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swinton's supplementary readers (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co., 1880), by William Swinton and George Rhett Cathcart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warren's reading selection (W.S. Fortescue, 1879), by M. Josephine Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The independent first[-sixth] reader ... (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1875), by J. Madison Watson and Edwin Leigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reader and guide for new Americans; book one[-two] (The Macmillan company, 1923), by Alfred Watkins Castle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oral English for secondary schools. (The Macmillan company, 1926), by William Palmer Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tommy's first speaker for little boys and girls. (W.H. Harrison, Jr., 1886), by Thomas W. Handford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child life in many lands; a third reader (The Macmillan Co., 1911), by Etta Austin Blaisdell and Mary Frances Blaisdell (page images at HathiTrust)
• An advanced English reader, with the pronunciation indicated by marks applied to the ordinary spelling (I.B. Hutchen, 1924), by William A. Craigie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language reader [first to sixth year] (Macmillan, 1907), by Franklin T. Baker, Jennie Freeborn Owens, Mary Frederika Kirchwey, Ida Elizabeth Robbins, Mary Elizabeth Brooks, Katherine Bowditch Owens, and George Rice Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wheeler's graded readers (W. H. Wheeler & Co., 1900), by Gail Calmerton and William Henry Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story hour readers... (American book company, 1913), by Ida Coe and Alice Julia Dillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cyr readers, arranged by grades. Book 1-8. (Ginn, 1900), by Ellen M. Cyr (page images at HathiTrust)
• New education readers: a synthetic and phonic word method (American Book Company, 1900), by Abraham Jay Demarest and William Maturin Van Sickle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The f-u-n book (The Macmillan Company, 1924), by Mabel Guinnip La Rue (page images at HathiTrust)
• First [-third] reader (Ginn, 1904), by Sidney Carleton Newsom and Levona Payne Newsom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden treasury readers. Primer, First-5th reader. (American Book Company, 1909), by Charles Maurice Stebbins and Mary H. Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helpers (The Macmillan Company, 1937), by John F. Waddell, Maybell Grace Bush, and Lois Gadd Nemec (page images at HathiTrust)
• Learning English; a conversation reader and language book for new Americans (Ginn and company, 1923), by Annie Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children's first [-fourth] reader (Ginn & company, 1892), by Ellen M. Cyr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Army lessons in English. Military stories. ([Camp Upton, 1920), by Camp Upton (N.Y.), Louis Thomas Byrne, Walter H. Wells, and Garry Cleveland Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington's farewell address, and Webster's first and second Bunker hill orations (Charles E. Merrill company, 1911), by George Washington, Fred Andrew Smart, and Daniel Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Everyday classics. Second-eighth reader. [v.1-7] (Macmillan, 1920), by Franklin T. Baker, Mildred Batchelder, Fannie Wych Dunn, and Ashley Horace Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boys' and girls' readers... reader (Houghton Mifflin company, 1923), by Emma Miller Bolenius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Riverside readers... (Houghton Mifflin company, 1913), by James H. Van Sickle, Frances Jenkins, and Wilhelmina Seegmiller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dick's recitations and readings. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1876), by William B. Dick, Harris B. Dick, and Dick & Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pacific history stories, Arranged and retold for use in the public schools (THe Whitaker & Ray Company, 1896), by Harr Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De Witt's perfect orator. Comprising a great number of readings, recitations, dialogues and harangues ... Added to which are very carefully composed prefatory remarks ... Together with a number of useful suggestions as to the stage arrangements, making the costumes, scenery ... (R.M. De Witt, 1872), by Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatizations of school classics; a dramatic reader for grammar and secondary schools (Educational publishing company, 1911), by Mary Augusta Laselle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story hour plays. (Rand McNally, 1915), by Frances Sankstone Mintz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forensic declamations : for the use of schools and colleges (Silver, Burdett, and Co., 1901), by A. Howry Espenshade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethics of success, a reader for the higher grades of schools; illustrated by inspiring anecdotes from the lives of sucessful men and women. (A. M. Thayer & co., 1893), by William Makepeace Thayer and Albert G. Boyden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The premium speaker: comprising fresh selections in poetry and prose, humorous, pathetic, patriotic, for reading clubs, school declamation, home and public entertainments, containing the selections published in The Reading Club, nos. 9, 10, 11, 12 ... (Lee, 1882), by George Melville Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prize speaker: comprising fresh selections in poetry and prose, humorous, pathetic, patriotic, for reading clubs, school declamation, home and public entertainments. Combining the selections published in The reading club, nos. 5, 6, 7, 8. (Lee and Shepard;, 1880), by George M. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• New pieces that will take prizes in speaking contests (Hinds and Noble, 1901), by Harriet Blackstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national junior speaker. Consisting of declamation and recitations, for pupils from ten to sixteen years of age. (Baker & Taylor, 1886), by Oliver E. Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pieces for every day the schools celebrate (L.A. Noble, 1921), by Norma Helen Deming and Katharine Isabel Bemis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recitations for the social circle. (The Christian herald, 1896), by James Clarence Harvey and Christian Herald (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American speaker. no. 1. (J.P. Morton and Company, 1874), by Benjamin Bussey Huntoon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The humorous speaker; a book of humorous selections for reading and speaking (Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1909), by Paul M. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The normal first[-fifth] reader. By Albert N. Raub ... (Porter & Coates, 1878), by Albert N. Raub (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of elocution and reading. Embracing the principles and practice of elocution ... (Eldredge & brother, 1882), by Edward Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Webster's progressive speaker; a very fine selection of the most admirable pieces suited for oratorical exhibitions in the higher classes of academies, colleges, universities, normal schools, and for intellectual parlor entertainments. (Robert M. De Witt, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recitations and readings. ([New York?, in the 19th century), by Latham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Speaker's garland and literary bouquet : combining 100 choice selections, nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 : embracing rare poetical gems, fine specimens of oratory, popular patriotic effusions, thrilling sentiment, impassioned eloquence, tender pathos, and sparkling humor ... (P. Garrett, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national advanced speaker. A collection of carefully chosen, available, modern declamations and recitations; with instructions to speakers, and an appendix of words of diffcult pronunciations. (Baker & Taylor, 1890), by Oliver E. Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Open Sesame! Poetry and prose for school-days. (Ginn & company, 1898), by Blanche Bellamy and Maud Wilder Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical reader for the use of classes in academies, high schools, and grammar schools. (D. Appleton and company, 1884), by Henry E. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pieces for every occasion (Hinds & Noble, 1901), by Caroline B. Le Row (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Lawrence reader and speaker ... (A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911), by Edwin Gordon Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to recite : a school speaker (American Book Co., 1900), by Frank Townsend Southwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patriotic recitations and readings. (F.J. Drake & Co., 1902), by Josephine Stafford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carleton's popular readings, prose and poetry. Humorous, dramatic, pathetic and descriptive... (G.W. Carleton & co.; [etc.,etc.], 1879), by Anna Randall Diehl (page images at HathiTrust)
• How we are clothed : a geographical reader (Macmillan Co. ;, 1914), by James Franklin Chamberlain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little lines for little speakers, containing entirely original short and effective pieces for children between the ages of four and seven and seven and ten, including appropriate pieces for opening and closing school. Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, birthday and other special and patriotic occasions (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1891), by Clara Janetta Fort Denton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The literary world. Sixth-[eighth] reader (Johnson Pub. Co., 1919), by John Calvin Metcalf, Hetty S. Browne, and Sarah Withers (page images at HathiTrust)
• City and town, a fourth reader (B.H. Sanborn & Co., 1916), by Pauline Frost Rafter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The patriotic reader : for seventh and eighth grades and junior high schools (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by Katharine Isabel Bemis, Henry Lester Smith, Mathilde Edith Holtz, and Henry Lester Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• World stories for children (Ainsworth and Co., 1916), by Sophie L. Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little American history plays for little Americans : a dramatic reader for third and fourth grades (B.H. Sanborn, 1919), by Eleanore Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats in the zoo (Rand McNally & Co., 1914), by Teresa Weimer, R. G. Jones, and Robinson Godfrey Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlantic prose and poetry : for junior high schools and upper grammar grades (Atlantic Monthy Press, 1919), by Charles Swain Thomas and H. G. Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Light for the temperance platform: a collection of readings, recitations, and dialogues for Sons of Temperance, Good Templars ... (Hunter, Rose, 1874), by Geo. Maclean Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Elson readers : Book five (revision of Elson grammar school reader, book one) (Scott, Foresman, 1920), by William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choice literature ... for grammar grades (Butler, Shelton & company, 1898), by Sherman Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choice literature...for intermediate grades (Sheldon and company, 1898), by Sherman Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of everyday life; a reader for the upper grades (Ginn and Co., 1911), by Fanny E. Coe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hawthorne fifth reader. (Globe School Book Co., 1901), by Edward Everett Hale and Adaline Wheelock Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story land : a second reader (Globe School Book Co., 1901), by Mary Frances Hall and Mary Louise Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bugle calls of liberty : our national reader of patriotism (Iroquois Pub. Co., 1917), by Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth and Paul Mayo Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diggers in the earth (Houghton Mifflin, 1916), by Eva March Tappan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Webster's little folks' speaker; comprising many standard pieces, as well as a great many entirely original, both sentimental and humorous. (R.M. DeWitt, 1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dime temperance speaker (M. J. Ivers, 1900), by Dance and Music Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Ostler Joe." (J.S. Ogilvie & Company, 1883), by Alonzo Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred choice selections : number 1-[40]. A repository of readings, recitations, and plays comprising eloquence and sentiment ; pathos and humor, dialect and impersonations, etc. (The Penn publishing company, 1913), by Phineas Garrett, Charles Chalmers Shoemaker, Henry Gaines Hawn, and Charles C. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature in verse : a poetry reader for children. (Silver, Burdett, 1896), by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the farm (D. Appleton and company, 1898), by Francis W. Parker and Nellie Lathrop Helm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Egypt, Greece, and Rome (Ginn and company, 1913), by Celia Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic reader, for seventh and eighth years (Longmans, Green and co., 1916), by Pearl Beaudry Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• History reader for elementary schools, arranged with special reference to holidays. (The Macmillan company, 1898), by Mrs. Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Readings and recitations. A new and choice collection of articles in prose and verse ... (The National temperance society and publication house, 1878), ed. by Lizzie Penney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excelsior recitations and readings, no. 1-[4] A carefully compiled selection of humorous, dramatic, patriotic, sentimental, eloquent, pathetic and dialect pieces ... (Excelsior Publishing House, 1884), by T. J. Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public and parlor readings : prose and poetry for the use of reading clubs and for public and social entertainment : humorous (Lee & Shepard ;, 1872), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rival collection of prose and poetry, for the use of schools, colleges and public readers. (J. W. Schermerhorn & Co., 1872), by Martin Larkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballards and stories for readings with musical accompaniments for public entertainments, church socials, schools, and the family circle. (The John Church co.;, 1886), by Hezekiah Butterworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eugene Field book; verses, stories, and letters for school reading (C. Scribner's Sons, 1914), by Eugene Field, Mary Cable Dennis, and Mary Elizabeth Burt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pieces that have won prizes; also many encore pieces. (L.A. Noble, 1917), by Frank C. McHale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public and parlor readings : prose and poetry, for the use of reading clubs and for public and social entertainment : miscellaneous (Lee and Shepard, 1885), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
• El lector americano : nuevo curso gradual de lecturas compuesto para el uso de las escuelas hispanoamericanas (Appleton y Compañía, 1890), by José Abelardo Núñez (page images at HathiTrust)
• The England and America reader (Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1916), by Otto Jespersen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to recite; a school speaker (American book company, 1900), by Frank Townsend Southwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose and poetry for young people comprising Child's own speaker, Little people's speaker, Young people's speaker, Young folk's recitations. (Penn Publishing Company, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Junior recitations: a collection of exercises, dialogues and single pieces, suitable for junior meetings and public entertainments (United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1922), by Amos R. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sixteen perfective laws of art applied to oratory (Emerson College Publishing Department, 1896), by Charles Wesley Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature readers. Sea-side and way-side. (D. C. Heath & Co., 1893), by Julia MacNair Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern science reader, with special reference to chemistry (The Macmillan Company;, 1913), by Robert Montgomery Bird (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American star speaker and model elocutionist. (M.A. Donohue & co., 1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good selections in prose and poetry : for use in schools and academies, home and church sociables, lyceums and literary societies, etc. (J.W. Schermerhorn, 1871), by William M. Jelliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three minute declamations for college men (Hinds and Noble, 1894), by Harry Cassell Davis and John Cloyse Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cumnock's choice readings (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1890), by Robert McLean Cumnock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution of expression (Emerson College of Oratory, Publishing Department, 1907), by Charles Wesley Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doing right; a course in character building (Uplift publishing company, 1919), by Elias Hershey Sneath, Henry Hallam Tweedy, and George Hodges (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard juvenile speaker; a new and cheerful selection of recitations, dialogues, etc., in prose and verse (Laird & Lee, inc., 1926), by Annabel Andrews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leading facts for new Americans (American book company, 1923), by Ralph Philip Boas and Louise Schutz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Photographic reduction of McGuffey's reading charts. (Van Antwerp, Bragg & co., 1881), by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular Irish readings in prose and verse. (A. Gardner, 1892), by Robert Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard supplementary readers ... (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & co.], 1881), by William Swinton and George R. Cathcart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Better reading (Globe Book Co., 1943), by Joseph C. Gainsburg and Samuel I. Spector (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basic reading abilities series. (World Book Co., 1950), by Donald DeWitt Durrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recitations for every occasion; the best new pieces to read and recite and a few favorites of an older vintage, for the days we celebrate and public and private entertainments generally (Shrewesbury Pub. Co., 1924), by Carleton B. Case and Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The child's world. Primer, [First-fifth reader] (B.F. Johnson, 1917), by Sarah Withers, Hetty S. Browne, Hetty Sibyl Browne, and W. K. Tate (page images at HathiTrust)

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