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The American Preceptor: Being a New Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking, Designed for the Use of Schools (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1794), ed. by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
The American Union Speaker, by John D. Philbrick (Gutenberg text)
Burglar Bill, and Other Pieces for the Use of the Young Reciter (London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., ca. 1888), by F. Anstey (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1797), by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: J. H. A. Frost et al, 1832), by Caleb Bingham
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Natural-History Plays, Dialogues and Recitations for School Exhibitions (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1885), by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
The Overton Reciter: Character Sketches for Recitation (tenth thousand; New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell, ca. 1889), by Robert Overton, ed. by Alfred H. Miles
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The American First Class Book: or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation (Boston : Charles Bowen, 1836, c1835), ed. by John Pierpont (page images at Pitt)
Platform Pearls for Temperance Workers and Other Reformers: A Collection of Recitations and Other Selections for Entertainments and Public Meetings, Especially Adapted for Christian Endeavor Societies, Prohibition Clubs, Loyal Temperance Legions, Women's Christian Temperance Unions, Etc., Etc., Etc. (New York ;Toronto : Funk & Wagnall's, 1896), by Lilian M. Heath (multiple formats at archive.org)
Select readings for public and private entertainment ... accompanied by explanatory notes, together with appropriate elocutionary instructions ... (R. D. S. Tyler & co., 1886), by Loomis T. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Wayside blossoms of prose & poetry ... (E. R. Curtis & co., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
Modern literature for oral interpretation; practice book for vocal expression (The Century Co., 1920), by Gertrude Elizabeth Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
"Smiles;" a book of recitations for girls. (H. M. Caldwell co., 1899), by Alice Lewis Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
"Winks"; a book of recitations for boys. (Cuyahoga Falls, O., 1900), by Alice Lewis Richards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Werner's readings and recitations. (E.S. Werner, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
The reciter's treasury of Irish verse and prose (Routledge, 1915), by Guy Pertwee and Alfred Perceval Graves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
American patriotic selections; famous state papers of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. With historical introductions and critical notices (E. Maynard, 1890), by Frederick Webster Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
The little orator : or, Primary school speaker. (A.S. Barnes, 1872), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
The officers' speech book (Creative Studio, 1954), by Dale H Morath (page images at HathiTrust)
High days & holidays (E. P. Dutton & company, 1928), by Florence Ann Adams and Elizabeth McCarrick (page images at HathiTrust)
The Oxford recitations. (The Macmillan company, 1928), by John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust)
Psychology of the spoken word. By Delbert Moyer Staley. (R. G. Badger, 1914), by Delbert Moyer Staley (page images at HathiTrust)
The effective speaking voice. (The Macmillan company, 1920), by Joseph Albert Mosher (page images at HathiTrust)
Student's class-book of elocution; a manual containing the fundamental principles of the art of expression,--drills and exercises for the improvement of vocal utterance and oratorical action,--and a copious selection of pieces suitable for practice in public reading and declamation in three courses. (St. Meinrad's abbey, 1927), by Dominic Barthel (page images at HathiTrust)
Dialects for oral interpretation, selections and discussion. (The Century co., 1922), by Gertrude Elizabeth Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Selections for the illustration of a course of instructions on the rhythmus and utterance of the English language: with an Introductory essay on the application of rhythmical science to the treatment of impediments, and the improvement of our national oratory; and an elementary analysis of the science and practice of elocution, composition, &c. (Printed by J. M'Creery, and sold by Messrs. Arch [etc.], 1812), by John Thelwall (page images at HathiTrust)
Galloping sounds. (Expression Co., 1946), by Stanley Humphreys Ainsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
Selections for oral reading. (The Macmillan company, 1914), by Claude Moore Fuess (page images at HathiTrust)
The classical speaker. (Lincoln & Edmands; [etc., etc.], 1830), by Charles K. Dillaway (page images at HathiTrust)
Voice, speech and gesture; a practical handbook to the elocutionary art, comprising also selections in prose and verse adapted for recitation, reading, and dramatic recital (C.".Descon & co.;, 1964), by R. D. Blackman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Complete course in public speaking (The Macmillan company, 1925), by Joseph Albert Mosher (page images at HathiTrust)
Evolution of expression (Boston, 1892), by Emerson College (page images at HathiTrust)
The national preceptor; or, Selections in prose and poetry, consisting of narrative, descriptive, argumentative, didactic, pathetic, and humorous pieces, together with dialogues, addresses, orations, speeches, &c. ... (Goodwin, 1830), by J. Olney (page images at HathiTrust)
Recqeil de discours préparés; allocutions, speeches, compliments, condoléances, toast avec réponses, appropriés à toutes les circonstances de la vio ot à tous les milioux, suivi de quelques conscils sur la diction et la tonue (Librairie Beauchemin à responsabilité limitée, 1904), by Paul Marc Sauvalle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Patriotic selections for reading & speaking ed (L. A. Noble, 1918), by Edwin Du Bois Shurter (page images at HathiTrust)
Lincoln literary collection, designed for school room and family circle : containing more than six hundred favorite selections in prose and poetry, sections for Arbor day, Bird day, Decoration day, days with the poets, etc. (American book company, 1897), by J. P. McCaskey (page images at HathiTrust)
The psychological development of expression (The Columbia college of expression, 1920), by Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
The American preceptor : being a new selection of lessons for reading and speaking : designed for the use of schools (Printed by Manning and Loring, 1801), by Caleb Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
Encores (Detroit Training School of Elocution and English Literature, 1891), by Edna Chaffee Noble and Detroit Training School of Elocution and English Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
The primary standard speaker (C. Desilver, 1857), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice readings from standard and popular authors, embracing a complete classification of selections, a comprehensive diagram of the principles of vocal expression, and indexes to the choicest readings from Shakespeare, the Bible, and the hymn-books (Ginn, 1884), by Robert I. Fulton and Thomas C. Trueblood (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice readings from standard and popular authors, embracing a complete classification of selections, a comprehensive diagram of the principles of vocal expression, and indexes to the choicest readings from Shakespeare, the Bible, and the hymn-books (Ginn & Co., 1897), by Robert I. Fulton and Thomas C. Trueblood (page images at HathiTrust)
The sixth reader (Cowperthwait & Co., 1872), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Sunbeams : a choice collection of good, useful, and appropriate recitations designed for home amusement and school entertainment. (L.P. Miller, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
Something new to recite : containing one hundred and one humorous, pathetic, didactic, patriotic and dramatic recitals (Braden, 1908), by Findley Braden and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
White House hand-book of oratory : being a carefully selected collection of patriotic speeches and essays : with gems of literature, prose and poetry, adapted for readings and recitations at home and on public occasions together with an exhaustive summary of the principles of elocution and oratory, with exercises in voice and gesture (F.J. Drake, 1899), by Charles E. Chadman (page images at HathiTrust)
The national reader : a selection of exercises in reading and speaking, designed to fill the same place in the schools of the United States that is held in those of Great Britain by the compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing, and others (Charles Bowen, 1836), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
Das deutsche Vortragsbuch : eine Auswahl sprechbarer Dichtungen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, mit Einführung in die Grundlagen gesprochener Dichtung und Hinweisen für den Vortrag (G.D.W. Callwey, 1929), by Fritz Gerathewohl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Wilson's book of recitations and dialogues : with instructions in elocution and declamation : designed as a reading book for classes : and as an assistant to teachers and students in preparing exhibitions (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1869), by Floyd B. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
The national fifth reader : containing a treatise on elocution, exercises in reading and declamation, with biographical sketches, and copious notes : adapted to the use of students in English and American literature (A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1863), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
The American common-school reader and speaker: being a selection of pieces in prose and verse, with rules for reading and speaking. (C. Tappan, 1844), by John Goldsbury and William Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
The humourous speaker : a book of humorous selections for reading and speaking (Noble and Noble, 1928), by Paul M. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
Unique monologues and recitations for children (Banner Play Bureau, 1929), by Marshall Stedman (page images at HathiTrust)
The sixth reader : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors : for the use of advanced classes in public and private schools (Brewer and Tileston, 1863), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
The national fifth reader : containing a complete and practical treatise on elocution, select and classified exercises in reading and declamation, with biographical sketches, and copious notes : adapted to the use of students in literature (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1874), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
Sander's union fifth reader : embracing a full exposition of the principles of rhetorical reading : with numerous exercises for practice, both in prose and poetry from the best writers, and with literary and biographical notes, for the higher classes in schools, academies, etc. (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co., 1878), by Charles W. Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
The Young disclaimer : being a collection of pieces in poetry, prose, and dialogue designed for the use of pupils in intermediate schools (A.S. Barnes & Co., 1872), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
Readings, recitations, and impersonations (Journal Printing, 1893), by Ermine Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
Exercises in rhetorical reading : with a series of introductory lessons, particularly designed to familiarize readers with the pauses and other marks in general use, and lead them to the practice of modulation and inflection of the voice (A.S. Barnes & Co. ;, 1850), by Richard Green Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
Open sesame! poetry and prose for school-days ([Ginn], 1890), by Blanche Wilder Bellamy and Maud Wilder Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
Texas history syllabus for use in extemporaneous speech contests (University of Texas, 1935), by University of Texas. Division of Extension. Bureau of Public School Interests (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ready-made programs for every month (Paine Pub. Co., 1928), by Sarah Grames Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
Sunday-school and church entertainments : designed for anniversaries, celebrations, Christmas, New Year, Easter, and Thanksgiving occasions, and the full round of entertainments. (The Penn Pub. Co., 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
Christmas entertainment (The Penn Pub. Co., 1925), by Alice Maude Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Thanksgiving entertainments : a collection of new recitations, dialogues, songs, exercises, etc. for all grades, with much original matter (A Flanagan company, 1906), by Joseph Charles Sindelar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Werner's selections with elocution lessions, no. 1. (E. S. Werner publishing & supply co. (inc.), 1902) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An essay on elocution : with elucidatory passages from various authors to which are added remarks on reading prose and verse, with suggestions to instructors of the art (W.C. Little, 1843), by John Hanbury Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
The reciter's treasury of prose and drama, serious and humorous (G. Routledge;, 1904), by Ernest Pertwee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
All-round recitations (Edgar S. Werner & Co., 1890), by Elsie M. Wilbor (page images at HathiTrust)
American classics (E.S. Werner, 1913), by Sara Sigourney Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
[Dramatic selections] (Edgar S. Werner & co., 1892), by Jean Carruthers (page images at HathiTrust)
[All occasions] (Edgar S. Werner & Co., 1896), by Caroline Earnest Dickenson (page images at HathiTrust)
[All occasions]. (Edgar S. Werner & Co., 1896), by Fowler Merritt (page images at HathiTrust)
[Pantomimes, poses, recitations] (Werner, 1899), by Howell Lake Piner (page images at HathiTrust)
Platform recitations (E.S. Werner & Co., 1908), by Elise West (page images at HathiTrust)
Boy impersonations. (Werner & Co., 1913), by Stanley Schell (page images at HathiTrust)
New monologues and dialect stories; a collection of new stories, monologues, poems and acting plays, published for the first time. (F. J. Drake & Co., 1908), by Mary Moncure Paynter Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
The standard popular reciter including selections from the works of Rudyard Kipling, Sir Henry Newbolt, E. Nesbit, George R. Sims, Mark Twain, and many others. (Ward Lock, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
Beecher's recitations and readings : humorous, serious, dramatic, including prose and poetical selections in Dutch, French, Yankee, Irish, Backwoods, Negro, and other dialects (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1874), by Alvah C. Beecher and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
The year's entertainment; a collection of recitations, dialogues, songs, exercises, etc., arranged as programs for special days and occasions, providing for each month of the school year (F. A. Owen Pub. Co., 1909), by Inez N. McFee (page images at HathiTrust)
The Modern elocutionist (Carson Brothers, 1880), by John A. Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
A southern speaker, containing selections from the orations, addresses and writings of the best-known southern orators, southern statesmen and southern authors, together with extracts from the rarest gems of prose and poetry ever written (Hinds & Noble, 1901), by D. Barton Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice dialect and other characterizations, containing readings and recitations in Irish, German, Scotch, French, Negro, and other dialects (Penn Pub. Co., 1915), by Charles Chalmers Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
The popular elocutionist and reciter (F. Warne, 1889), by J. E. Carpenter and Leopold Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice readings from standard and popular authors : embracing a complete classification of selections, a comprehensive diagram of the principles of vocal expression, and indexes to the choicest readings from Shakespeare, the Bible, and the hymn-books (Ginn, Heath, 1912), by Robert I. Fulton and Thomas C. Trueblood (page images at HathiTrust)
Another five-minute recitations (Oliver and Boyd, 1919), by A. B. Harley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
My recitations. (J. P. Lippincott company, 1886), by Cora Urquhart Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
Voice, speech and gesture : a practical handbook to the elocutionary art, comprising also selections in prose and verse adapted for recitation, reading, and dramatic recital (J. Grant, 1908), by R. D. Blackman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Chambers's new reciter : comprising selections from the works of I. Zangwill ... [et. al.] (W. & R. Chambers, 1900), by Israel Zangwill and R. C. H. Morison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
100 choice selections (P. Garrett & Co., 1866), by Henry Gaines Hawn, Charles C. Shoemaker, Nathaniel K. Richardson, and Phineas Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
Declamation for the million ... (G. Sherwood, 1864), by R. G. Hibbard (page images at HathiTrust)
Union speaker (Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co. ;, 1864), by Charles W. Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
The new American speaker : a collection of oratorical and dramatical pieces, soliloquies and dialogues : with an original introductory essay on the elements of elocution : designed for the use of schools, academies, and colleges (A.S. Barnes & Co. ;, 1855), by J. C. Zachos (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifth reader (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1880), by J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking : calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth : to which are prefixed rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind (Seward and Williams, 1809), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
Delsarte manual of oratory, containing the choicest recitations and readings from the best authors for schools, public entertainments, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., now used in the leading schools of oratory, including recitals in prose and verse, selections with musical accompaniments, dialogues, dramas, tableaux, etc., together with rules and instructions for gesture, expression and cultivation of the voice, compiled and edited by Henry Davenport Northrop. (W. H. Ferguson Co., 1895), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
The Delsarte speaker, or Modern elocution; designed especially for young folks and amateurs, containing a practical treatise on the Delsarte system of physical culture, including directions for the cultivation of the voice, correct attitudes and the use of gestures, together with choice selections for readings and recitations ... compiled and edited by Henry Davenport Northrop. (National Publishing Co., 1895), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice readings for public and private entertainments and for the use of schools, colleges and public readers with elocutionary advice. (A.C. McClurg, 1920), by Robert McLean Cumnock (page images at HathiTrust)
The American preceptor : being a new selection of lessons for reading and speaking : designed for the use of schools (Printed by Manning and Loring, for the author; and sold at his Book-store ...: sold also by the booksellers in general, 1809), by Caleb Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
The American preceptor; being a new selection of lessons for reading and speaking. Designed for the use of schools. (Printed by Manning and Loring, 1811), by Caleb Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
The American preceptor improved; being a new selection of lessons for reading and speaking. Designed for the use of schools. (E. Peck, 1826), by Caleb Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
The Sunday school speaker; or, Exercises for anniversaries and celebrations, consisting of addresses, dialogues, recitations, Bible class lessons, hymns, etc., adapted to the various subjects to which Sabbath school efforts are directed (Perkinpine & Higgins, 1859), by J. Kennaday (page images at HathiTrust)
Selected readings, designed to impart to the student an appreciation in literature in its wider sense (A. C. McClurg & co., 1909), by Anna Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
Original recitations with lesson talks. (Werner pub. co., 1902), by Emma Dunning Banks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Choice readings for public and private entertainments, and for the use of schools, colleges, and public readers, with elocutionary advice. (A. C. McClurg & co., 1905), by Robert McLean Cumnock (page images at HathiTrust)
Peace and patriotism; selections from poetry and prose (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1919), by Elva Sophronia Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Little people's speaker, composed of recitations, motion songs, holiday exercises, temperance and patriotic pieces (The Penn publishing company, 1914), by J. W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The days we celebrate; a collection of original dialogues, recitations, entertainments and other pieces for holidays and special occasions; suitable for all ages (T. S. Denison, 1904), by Marie Irish (page images at HathiTrust)
Christmas entertainments : containing fancy drills, acrostics, motion songs, tableaux, short plays, recitations in costume, for children of five to fifteen years (Penn Pub. Co., 1918), by Alice Maude Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Practical recitations; short pieces for school entertainment for children of thirteen years. (Penn Pub. Co., 1918), by Amos M. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
The Star speaker : a complete and choice collection of the best productions by the best authors, with an exhaustive treatise on the subject of vocal and physical culture and gesturing (Star Publishing, 1892), by Flora N. Kightlinger (page images at HathiTrust)
The step-ladder : a collection of prose and poetry designed for use in children's classes in elocution and for supplementary reading in public and private schools (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1893), by Margaret A. Klein (page images at HathiTrust)
The model speaker : consisting of exercises in prose and poetry. For the use of schools, academies, and colleges. (Eldredge, 1870), by Philip Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
The little orator, or, Primary school speaker (A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1863), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice dialect and other characterizations : containing readings and recitations in Irish, German, Scotch, French, Negro, and other dialects (Penn Pub. Co., 1911), by Charles C. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
The progressive speaker; containing the best readings and recitations for all occasions from the most celebrated authors ... Programmes for special occasions, together with a treatise on elocution ... How to organize and conduct literary societies ... Embellished with more than 100 superb illustrations. (The National Publishing Co., 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
Selections for memorizing, for primary, intermediate, and high school grades (Ginn & company, 1892), by Luther Clark Foster and Sherman Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
Tiny tot's speaker, designed for the wee ones (Penn Pub. Co., 1913), by Elizabeth Jane Rook and E. J. H. Goodfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
Young folk's entertainments, comprising many new and novel motion songs, charades, pantomimes, tableaux, concert recitations, drills, etc., for home and school entertainment (The Penn publishing company, 1914), by Emma Cecilia Rook and Elizabeth Jane Rook (page images at HathiTrust)
Elocutionary studies and new recitations (E.S. Werner, 1887), by Anna Randall Diehl (page images at HathiTrust)
Précis d'éloquence et d'art oratoire ... : précédé d'une introduction historique, et suivi d'une biographie des plus illustres orateurs. (Mairet & Fournier, 1842), by Valentin Parisot (page images at HathiTrust)
Parker's rhetorical reader. (A.S. Barnes & Co. ;, 1849), by Richard Green Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay on elocution : with elucidatory passages from various authors to which are added remarks on reading prose and verse, with suggestions to instructors of the art. (W. C. Little, 1856), by John Hanbury Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
The patriotic speaker : consisting of specimens of modern eloquence, together with poetical extracts adapted for recitation, and dramatic pieces for exhibitions (A.S Barnes & Burr ;, 1864), by Robert R. Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)
Lessons in elocution, or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse : for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking (Isaiah Thomas, Jr., 1814), by William Scott, James Burgh, and John Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
A public school reciter (Longsmans, Green, and Co., 1898), by Bertha M. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
Soper's select speaker : containing choicest orations, humorous, dramatic and pathetic readings and recitations, dialogues, drills and tableaux in national, patriotic, old time and modern costume : selections especially for Christmas, New Year's, Easter, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, birthdays of authors and statesmen, school, church, home, soldiers' re-unions, temperance meetings, labor days, old settlers' meetings, and all miscellaneous gatherings (P.A. Stone & Co., 1901), by H. M. Soper and Soper School of Oratory (page images at HathiTrust)
The young ladies' reader : containing rules, observations, and exercises on articulation, pauses, inflections and emphasis : also exercises in reading, in prose and poetry (Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1851), by William D. Swan (page images at HathiTrust)
The Book of eloquence : a collection of extracts in prose and verse, from the most famous orators and poets; intended as exercises for declamation in colleges and schools (Crandall & Moseley, 1853), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking, calculated to improve the mind and refine the taste of youth. To which is prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. (Published and sold by David Hogan ;, 1814), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
The Columbian orator : containing a variety of original and selected pieces; together with rules, calculated to improve youth and others in the ornamental and useful art of eloquence (Philip H. Nicklin and Co., 1811), by Caleb Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
The rhetorical reader : consisting of instructions for regulating the voice, with a rhetorical notation, illustrating inflection, emphasis, and modulation, and a course of rhetorical exercises : designed for the use of academies and high-schools (Mark H. Newman, 1835), by Ebenezer Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
Evenings at school, or, Dramas for my girls (D. Appleton, 1883), by Sister Mary Ambrosine, M. C. Noyes, and Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft (Germany) (page images at HathiTrust)
Child's own speaker, composed of recitations, dialogues, motion songs and tableaux for children of six years (Penn Pub. Co., 1913), by Emma Cecilia Rook and Elizabeth Jane Rook (page images at HathiTrust)
The peerless reciter, or, popular program; containing the choicest recitations and readings from the best authors, for schools, public entertainments, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., including recitals in prose and verse, selections with musical accompaniments, dialogues, dramas, tableaux, etc., etc. together with rules and instructions for gesture, expression, and cultivation of the voice. (Elliott Pub. Co., 1894), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Sunday-school selections, comprising a wide range of readings and recitations adapted to church and Sunday-school entertainments and to all gatherings of a moral or religious character (Penn Pub. Co., 1911), by John Hendricks Bechtel (page images at HathiTrust)
Young folks' recitations, designed for young people of fourteen years, containing selections in both prose and poetry, together with some short dialogues and tableaux (Penn Pub. Co., 1913), by Rachel Hinkle Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
Young people's speaker designed for young people of twelve years, containing selections in both prose and verse for every season and every occasion (Penn Pub. Co., 1914), by Elizabeth Jane Rook and Emma Cecilia Rook (page images at HathiTrust)
Young people's speaker; being a choice treasury of new and popular recitations, readings, dialogues, original and adapted, comedies, tableaux ... including descriptive, dramatic, pathetic, humorous recitals ... for schools, lodges, public entertainments ... (National Pub. Co., 1900), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Good selections, in prose and poetry, for use in schools and academies, home and church sociables ... (The author, 1885), by W. M. Jelliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
The United States speaker: a copious selection of exercises in elocution; consisting of prose, poetry, and dialogue: drawn chiefly from the most approved writers of Great Britain and America: including a variety of pieces suitable for very young speakers ... (S. Babcock and Co., 1836), by John E. Lovell (page images at HathiTrust)
Patriotic quotations relating to American history. The discovery of America, landing of the Pilgrims, the Revolutionary War, Washington, independence, Lincoln, Memorial Day, Grant, Flag Day, etc., etc. (The Penn Pub. Co., 1912), by Alice Maude Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
The little speaker, and juvenile reader; being a collection of pieces in prose, poetry, and dialogue, designed for exercises in speaking, and for occasional reading, in primary schools. (A.S. Barnes & Co.;, 1856), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
Orations and declamations for young Americans. (Star Farmer Print., 1903), by H. C. Beauchamp (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitations & dialogues for special days in the Sunday school (Westminster Press, 1911), by Mary Elizabeth Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitations for assembly and class-room : with suggested programs (Macmillan Co., 1916), by Anna Theodora Lee O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
Selections for repetition from memory at the examinations conducted by the regents of the University of the state of New York in connection with the courses in American literature, German, and French. (C.W. Bardeen, 1896), by James Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
Chambers's new reciter (W. & R. Chambers, 1901), by R. C. H. Morison and Israel Zangwill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The reader's guide, containing a notice of the elementary sounds in the English language; instructions for reading both prose and verse, with numerous examples for illustration, and lessons for practice. (Robins & Smith [etc., etc.], 1845), by John Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
The English reader, or, Pieces in prose and poetry selected from the best writers : designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect, to improve their language and sentiments, and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue ... (Printed from Longman and Rees, 1799), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
Best selections for readings and recitations (Penn Pub. Co., 1909), by Charles C. Shoemaker, R. W. Shoemaker, and J. W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
The fifth reader (Cowperthwait & Co., 1871), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
The fourth reader (Cowperthwait & Co., 1872), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Monroe's new fifth reader. (E.H. Butler & Co., 1884), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Osgood's progressive fifth reader : embracing a system of instruction in the principles of elocution, and selections for reading and speaking from the best English and American authors : designed for the use of academies and the highest classes in public and private schools (A.H. English & Co., 1858), by Lucius Osgood (page images at HathiTrust)
The national fourth reader : containing a course of instruction in elocution, exercises in reading and declamation, and copious notes : giving the pronunciation and definitions of words, bibliographical sketches of persons whose names occur in the reading lessons, and the explanation of classical and historical allusions (Barnes & Burr, 1864), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
The national fourth reader : containing a simple comprehensive, and practical treatise on elocution, numerous and classified exercises in reading and declamation, copious notes, and a complete supplementary index (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1872), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
The national fourth reader : containing a simple comprehensive, and practical treatise on elocution, numerous and classified exercises in reading and declamation, copious notes, and a complete supplementary index (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1873), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
The American first class book, or, Exercises in reading and recitation : selected principally from modern authors of Great Britain and America, and designed for the use of the highest class in publick and private schools (Cummings, Hilliard & Co. :, 1825), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
The American first class book, or, Exercises in reading and recitation : selected principally from modern authors of Great Britain and America, and designed for the use of the highest class in publick and private schools (Carter, Hendee & Co., 1832), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
The American first class book, or, Exercises in reading and recitation : selected principally from modern authors of Great Britain and America, and designed for the use of the highest class in public and private schools (David H. Williams, 1839), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
The national reader : a selection of exercises in reading and speaking, designed to fill the same place in the schools of the United States that is held in those of Great Britain by the compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing and others (Richardson, Lord, and Holbrook :, 1831), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
The national reader; a selection of exercises in reading and speaking, designed to fill the same place in the schools of the United States, that is held in those of Great Britain by the compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing, and others. (Richardson, 1832), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
The national reader : a selection of exercises in reading and speaking, designed to fill the same place in the schools of the United States, that is held in those of Great Britain by the compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing, and others (George F. Cooledge, 1835), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
Swinton's fifth reader and speaker. (American Book Company, 1883), by William Swinton (page images at HathiTrust)
The American popular speaker : designed for the use of schools, lyceums, temperance societies, etc., etc. (Porter & Coates, 1870), by J. R. Sypher (page images at HathiTrust)
The American class-reader : containing a series of lessons in reading : with introductory exercises in articulation, inflection, emphasis, and the other essential elements of correct natural elocution; designed for academies and common schools (C. Morse, 1836), by George Willson (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhetorical dialogues : or, dramatic selections for the use of schools, academies, and families (Durrie, & Peck, 1839), by John E. Lovell (page images at HathiTrust)
The primary school reader : designed for the first class in primary schools, and for the lowest class in grammar schools (Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1844), by William D. Swan (page images at HathiTrust)
Quotations and select stories : for opening exercises in schools (A. Flanagan Co., 1887), by George F. Bass (page images at HathiTrust)
The American preceptor : being a new selection of lessons for reading and speaking : designed for the use of schools (Evert Duyckinck, 1817), by Caleb Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
The young orator : consisting of prose, poetry, and dialogues for declamation in schools ; selected from the best authors (Lilly, Wait, Coleman and Holden, 1833), by John Lauris Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
The Columbian reader : comprising a new and various selection of elegant extracts in prose and poetry, for the use of schools in the United States, to which is prefixed an introduction on the arts of reading and speaking (Pub. by R. P. & C. Williams ;, 1815), by Rodolphus Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
The Columbian reader (Pub. by R. P. & C. Williams, and Ezekiel Goodale, Hallowell. E. Goodale, printer, 1818), by Rodolphus Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Declamations and dialogues for the Sunday-School. (H.A. Young & Co., 1871), by J. H. Gilmore (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin fifth reader : for the use of public and private schools : with an introductory treatise on elocution by Mark Bailey (Taintor Brothers, Merrill, & Co. ;, 1871), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin third reader (Taintor Brothers, Merrill, & Co. ;, 1873), by George Stillman Hillard and Loomis J. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
The intermediate reader : for the use of schools : with an introductory treatise on reading and the training of the vocal organs (Brewer and Tileston ;, 1863), by George Stillman Hillard (page images at HathiTrust)
The sixth reader : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors : for the use of advanced classes in public and private schools (Brewer and Tileston, 1865), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
McGuffey's new fourth eclectic reader : instructive lessons for the young (Winthrop B. Smith & Co. ;, 1857), by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at HathiTrust)
The American preceptor improved : being a new selection of lessons for reading and speaking : designed for the use of the schools (J. H. A. Frost, 1837), by Caleb Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
The handy speaker: comprising fresh selections in poetry and prose, humorous, pathetic, patriotic, for reading clubs, school declamation, home and public entertainments. (Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1876), by George Melville Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
Exercises in reading and recitations : founded on the enquiry in the elementary constitution of the human voice. (G. J, Loomis, 1828), by John Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
When the band played; a book for readers and entertainers ... (Jamieson-Higgins Co., 1901), by Grace Duffie Boylan (page images at HathiTrust)
The Columbian speaker, consisting of choice and animated pieces for declamation and reading (Lee and Shepard, 1902), by Loomis J. Campbell and Oren Root (page images at HathiTrust)
Columbian selections. American patriotism. For home and school. (J.B. Lippincott company, 1892), by Henry Beebee Carrington (page images at HathiTrust)
The American orator, or, Elegant extracts in prose and poetry : comprehending a diversity of oratorical specimens, of the eloquence of popular assemblies, of the bar, of the pulpit, &c. : principally intended for the use of schools and academies : to which are prefixed a dissertation on oratorical delivery and the outlines of gesture (Sidney's Press, for Increase Cooke and Co., 1811), by Increase Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
Elegant extracts in prose and poetry. (Sidney's Press, for John Babcock & Son, New-Haven, and S. & W.R. Babcock, Charleston, S.C., 1819), by Increase Cooke, John Babcock and Son, and Sidney's Press (page images at HathiTrust)
Reading and elocution: theoretical and practical. (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 1872), by Anna Randall Diehl (page images at HathiTrust)
The exhibition speaker: containing farces, dialogues, and tableaux, with exercises for declamation in prose and verse: (Sheldon & co., 1855), by P. A. Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
Pieces to speak...declamations and dialogues...with helpful notes as to delivery. (Bardeen, 1897), by Harlan Hoge Ballard (page images at HathiTrust)
Days and deeds; a book of verse for children's reading and speaking (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1918), by Burton Egbert Stevenson and Elizabeth Shepard Butler Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
Primary speaker (Penn Pub. Co., 1917), by Amos M. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
The American speaker: being a collection of pieces in prose, poetry, and dialogue; designed for exercises in declamation, or for occasional reading in schools. (A.S. Barnes & Co., 1856), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
The New York speaker : a selection of pieces designed for academic exercises in elocution (Mason Brothers, 1860), by Warren P. Edgarton (page images at HathiTrust)
The Speaker; a quarterly magazine. (New York., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
Delsarte recitation book, compiled and arranged by Elsie M. Wilbor. 4th ed. Enlarged in text and in illustrations. (E. S. Werner, 1905), by Elsie M. Wilbor and Steele MacKaye (page images at HathiTrust)
Von Boyle's recherché recitations : a careful compilation of pieces for the parlor and the platform. (De Witt, 1883), by Von Boyle (page images at HathiTrust)
Manual of reading : in 4 parts : orthophony, class methods, gesture, and elocution : designed for teachers and student (Harper & Brothers, 1889), by H. L. D. Potter (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)
Harper's school speaker (Harper & Brothers, 1890), by James Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
Beadle's dime American speaker : comprising gems of elocution and humor, for schools, exhibitions, parlors, etc. (Beadle and Adams, 1800), by Orville J. Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
The National primary speaker : consisting of declamations and recitations for pupils from five to ten years of age (Baker & Taylor, 1886), by Oliver E. Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
A collection of humorous, dramatic, and dialect selections (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1878), by Alfred P. Burbank (page images at HathiTrust)
New speeches, dialogues and recitations for young children : containing easy pieces in plain language, readily understood by young children and expressly adapted for school exhibitions, Christmas and other juvenile celebrations. (Dick, 1884), by Russell Kavanaugh (page images at HathiTrust)
The child's speaker : being a collection of pieces for recital in primary schools (A. S. Barnes, 1870), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
New recitations and readings. No. 1. : A choice collection, which has been selected with great care, ... and comprising prose and poetry, serious, humorous, pathetic, comic, temperance, patriotic selections. (J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1893), by J. S. Ogilvie (page images at HathiTrust)
Oxford's junior speaker. A collection of exercises in declamation, recitation, and representation. (E.H. Butler & company, 1872), by William Oxford (page images at HathiTrust)
The American first class book, or, Exercises in reading and recitation (T.P. & J.S. Fowle, 1823), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
The reader, or reciter; by the assistance of which any person may teach himself to read or recite English prose with the utmost elegance and effect. To which are added, instructions for reading plays. On a plan never before attempted. (Printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1799) (page images at HathiTrust)
English classics (E. S. Werner, 1890), by Sara Sigourney Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
Elocutionary studies and new recitations (E.S. Werner, 1889), by Anna Randall Diehl and Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
The American speaker : containing numerous rules, observations, and exercises on pronunciation, pauses, inflections, accent, and emphasis : also, copious extracts in prose and poetry, calculated to assist the teacher, and to improve the pupil in reading and recitation (Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co., 1845), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
The fourth reader : for the use of schools (Morton and Griswold, 1839), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
The sixth reader : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors : for the use of advanced classes in public and private schools (Brewer and Tileston, 1866), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
A well-planned course in reading with elocutionary advice; arranged for the use of classes in elocution and reading (Hinds & Noble, 1901), by Caroline B. Le Row (page images at HathiTrust)
Select readings for public and private entertainment : containing choice selections of the most pathetic, gay, humorous, heroic, sublime, and patriotic speeches and poems, accompanied by explanatory notes, together with appropriate elocutionary instructions ... (G.A. Gaskell, 1885), by L. T. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Oxford's senior speaker. A collection of exercises in declamation, recitation and representation. For advanced classes. (J. H. Butler & company, 1873), by William Oxford (page images at HathiTrust)
Lessons in elocution, or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse : for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking (Ezra Collier, 1825), by William Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
The American class-reader; containing a series of lessons in reading; with introductory exercises in articulation, inflection, emphasis, and the other essential elements of correct natural elocution; designed for academies and common schools. (C. Morse, 1840), by George Willson (page images at HathiTrust)
The intermediate standard speaker : containing pieces for declamation in schools, colleges, etc. : introductory, or supplementary, to The standard speaker (Charles Desilver, 1857), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
Standard recitations : for the use of Catholic colleges, schools and literary societies. (s.n., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
Delsarte recitation book and directory (E.S. Werner, 1890), by Elsie M. Wilbor (page images at HathiTrust)
Hutchinson's original recitations, speeches, and dialogues ... (R. Hutchinson, 1907), by Rodolphe Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Pieces for prize speaking contests; a collection of over one hundred pieces which have taken prizes in prize speaking contests (Hinds & Noble, 1899), by Asa H. Craig and Binney Gunnison (page images at HathiTrust)
Select speeches for declamation; chosen from the leading writers and speakers of all ages and nations and adapted in length and variety for use in schools and colleges. (The Penn Pub. Co., 1927), by John Hendricks Bechtel (page images at HathiTrust)
Evolution of expression (Emerson college of oratory, Pub. Dept., 1919), by Charles Wesley Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitations for younger children (D. Appleton and company, 1927), by Grace Gaige (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
New sixth eclectic reader. (W.B. Smith ;, 1857), by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at HathiTrust)
Little people's dialogues : designed for young people of ten years (Penn Pub. Co., 1888), by Clara Janetta Fort Denton (page images at HathiTrust)
The national fifth reader : containing a complete and practical treatise on elocution, select and classified exercises in reading and declamation, with biographical sketches, and copious notes : adapted to the use of students in literature (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1866), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
The reciter's treasury of verse, serious and humorous (Routledge;, 1919), by Ernest Pertwee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Sara Shriner's selections, arranged by Sara Shriner. (The Penn Pub. Co., 1924), by Sara Venore Shriner (page images at HathiTrust)
Patriotic selections for supplementary reading (L.A. Noble, 1918), by Edwin Du Bois Shurter (page images at HathiTrust)
Patriotic recitations and readings, containing a large number of the most effective, eloquent, instructive and brilliant selections for Fourth of July, Decoration, Arbor and Labor Day, Washington and Lincoln's birthdays, and all other holiday celebrations. (F.J. Drake & Co., 1902), by Josephine Stafford (page images at HathiTrust)
Southern student's hand-book of selections for reading and oratory. (A. S. Barnes & co., 1879), by John Garland James (page images at HathiTrust)
Excelsior selections of prose and poetry ... for public and parlor recitation and reading. (Excelsior Pub. House, 1890), by T. J. Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
America's recitation book (E.S. Werner, 1893), by Caroline B. Le Row (page images at HathiTrust)
The English reader : or, pieces in prose and poetry : selected from the best writers, designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; to improve their language and sentiments; and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue : with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading (Collins and Co., 1817), by Lindley Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
An elocutionary manual : consisting of choice selections from English and American literature ... ; with an introductory essay on the study of literature, and on vocal culture ... (C. Desilver, 1865), by Hiram Corson (page images at HathiTrust)
Best things from best authors. (National school of elocution and oratory, 1883), by J. W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Platform and all-round (E.S. Werner & company, 1910), by Stanley Schell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Little people's dialogues : Designed for young people of ten years. Everything original and specially written for this book. (Penn Pub. Co., 1888), by Clare Janetta Denton (page images at HathiTrust)
Practical recitations : short pieces for school entertainment for children of thirteen years. (Penn Pub. Co., 1925), by Amos M. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The little orator, or Primary school speaker. (A.S. Barnes, 1875), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
The reciter's treasury of verse, serious and humorous : with an introd. on the art of speaking. (G. Routledge ;, 1904), by Ernest Pertwee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Tiny tot's speaker, designed for the wee ones : composed of recitations, motion songs, and concert pieces (Penn Co., 1923), by Elizabeth Jane Rook and E.J.H. Goodfellow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A bundle o' fents from a Lancashire loom. (J. Heywood; [etc., etc., 1866), by Benjamin Brierley (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitations, dialogs, monologs, playlets ... (New York. Riant studio, 1918), by Walter Smith Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
The Approved selections for supplementary reading and memorizing in the schools of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, New Orleans, and other cities ... (Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1905), by Melvin Hix (page images at HathiTrust)
Poems of worth, with a prose supplement adapted for use in the study of oral English in elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools. (Buehler printcraft co., 1921), by Marjorie B. Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
The art of reading : containing a number of useful rules exemplified by a variety of selected and original pieces, narrative, didactic, argumentative, poetical, descriptive, pathetic, humourous, and entertaining, together with dialogues, speeches, orations, addresses, and harangues : calculated to improve the scholar in reading and speaking with propriety and elegance, and to impress the minds of youth with sentiments of virtue and religion : designed for the use of schools and families (West & Richardson, 1814), by Daniel Staniford (page images at HathiTrust)
The American orator's own book : a manual of extemporaneous eloquence including a course of discipline for the faculties of discrimination, arrangement and oral discussion and also practical exercises in reading, recitations and declamatory debate : intended for the use of colleges, schools, students of oratory, and all public speakers. (James Kay, jun. and Brother ;, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
Progressive exercises in rhetorical reading : particularly designed to familiarize the younger classes of readers with the pauses and other marks in general use, and to introduce them to the practice of modulation and inflection of the voice (Crocker and Brewster ;, 1835), by Richard Green Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
The rhetorical reader : consisting of instructions for regulating the voice, with a rhetorical notation, illustrating inflection, emphasis, and modulation, and a course of rhetorical exercises : designed for the use of academies and high-schools (Gould and Newman ;, 1841), by Ebenezer Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
Platform pieces (D.C. Heath and Co., 1917), by Henry Gaines Hawn (page images at HathiTrust)
The American first class book : or, Exercises in reading and recitation ... (Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins and Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1832), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
The Psychological development of expression : a compilation of selections for use in the study of expression (Columbia School of Oratory, 1907), by Ida Morey Riley, Mary A. Blood, and Columbia College of Expression (page images at HathiTrust)
The Pearl speaker (Pub. House of the M. E. Church, South, Barbee & Smith, Agents, 1895), by Graham. J. W. (page images at HathiTrust)
Monólogos, diálogos y comedias de Salón. (A. Barreiro y Ramos, 1915), by Benjamín Fernández y Medina (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Independent fifth reader : containing a practical treatise on elocution : illustrated with diagrams, select and classified reading and recitations, with copious notes, and complete supplementary index (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1876), by J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
Five-minute declamations. (Lee and Shepard, 1885), by Walter K. Fobes (page images at HathiTrust)
The Elocutionist's annual number comprising new and popular readings, recitations, declamations, dialogues, tableaux, etc. (J. W. Shoemaker & co., 1873), by J. W. Shoemaker and J. W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
The American speaker : a selection of popular, parliamentary and forensic eloquence : particularly calculated for the seminaries in the United States. (Abraham Small, 1814) (page images at HathiTrust)
"Smiles"; a book of recitations for girls ([The Werner company, printers], 1900), by Alice Lewis Richards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The second primary reader : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with exercises in enunciation : for the use of the second classes in primary schools. (Swan, Brewer and Tileston ;, 1860), by George Stillman Hillard (page images at HathiTrust)
A third class reader : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, for the use of the third classes in public and private schools : with an introductory treatise on reading and the training of vocal organs (Swan, Brewer and Tileston, 1857), by George Stillman Hillard (page images at HathiTrust)
The American Union speaker : containing standard and recent selections in prose and poetry : for recitation and declamation, in schools, academies and colleges : with introductory remarks on elocution, and explanatory notes (Taggard and Thompson, 1868), by John D. Philbrick (page images at HathiTrust)
The national fourth reader : containing a simple, comprehensive, and practical treatise on elocution, numerous and classified exercises in reading and declamation, copious notes, and a complete supplementary index (A.S. Barnes & Co., 1869), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay on elocution : with elucidatory passages from various authors to which are added remarks on reading prose and verse, with suggestions to instructors of the art (Weare C. Little, 1846), by John Hanbury Dwyer and Weare Coffin Little (page images at HathiTrust)
The common school speaker; a new collection of original and selected pieces, for reading and recitation. (S. Babcock;, 1844), by William Bentley Fowle, Sidney Babcock, and Wm. B. Fowle & Nahum Capen (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
The little speaker, and juvenile reader : being a collection of pieces in prose, poetry, and dialogue, designed for exercises in speaking, and for occasional reading, in primary schools / by Charles Northend. (S.A. Rollo & Co., 1859), by Charles Northend, Robert Craighead, and S.A. Rollo & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Youth's speaker (Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and co., 1871), by George R. Cathcart (page images at HathiTrust)
The little speaker, and juvenile reader : being a collection of pieces in prose, poetry, and dialogue, designed for exercises in speaking, and for occasional reading, in primary schools (Collins & Brother, 1849), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
The intermediate standard speaker, containing pieces for declamation in schools, colleges, etc. Introductory, or supplementary, to The standard speaker. (C. Desilver, 1858), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
Patriotic and heroic eloquence : a book for the patriot, statesman and student. (J. G. Gregory, 1861), by William Ross Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
Prologi et epilogi. (J.H. et J. Parker, 1863), by England) Westminster School (London, Charles Broderick Scott, Henry Bull, and James Mure (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
McGuffey's new sixth eclectic reader; exercises in rhetorical reading (Wilson, Hinkle, 1857), by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at HathiTrust)
The primary union speaker : containing original and selected pieces for declamation and recitation in primary schools (Taggard & Thompson, 1866), by John D. Philbrick (page images at HathiTrust)
The model speaker : consisting of exercises in prose and poetry : for the use of schools, academies, and colleges (Eldredge & Bro., 1871), by Philip Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
A first class reader : consisting of extracts, in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors : for the use of advanced classes in public and private schools (Swan, Brewer and Tileston ;, 1861), by George Stillman Hillard (page images at HathiTrust)
The sixth reader : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors : for the use of advanced classes in public and private schools (Eldredge and Brother, 1863), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
A second class reader : consisting of extracts, in prose and verse, for the use of the second classes in public and private schools : with an introductory treatise on reading and the training of the vocal organs (Hickling, Swan and Brewer ;, 1858), by George Stillman Hillard (page images at HathiTrust)
The sixth reader : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors : for the use of advanced classes in public and private schools (Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Co., 1863), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
The student's speaker : a new collection of original and selected pieces in prose, dialogues, and poetry : designed to furnish suitable pieces for speaking in schools and at public examinations (Pratt, Woodford & Co., 1853), by J. S. Denman (page images at HathiTrust)
The national fourth reader : containing a course of instruction in elocution, exercises in reading and declamation, and copious notes : giving the pronunciation and definitions of words, biographical sketches of persons whose names occur in the reading lessons, and the explanation of classical and historical allusions (A.S. Barnes & Burr, 1859), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
A pronouncing spelling-book of the English language (Hickling, Swan, and Brewer ;, 1859), by Joseph E. Worcester (page images at HathiTrust)
The reader and speaker : containing lessons for rhetorical reading and declamation (French & Adlard, 1836), by Samuel Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
The young speaker; an introduction to the United States speaker, designed to furnish exercises in both reading and speaking, for pupils between the ages of six and fourteen, comprising selections in prose, poetry, and dialogue... (Durrie & Peck, etc., etc., 1849), by John E. Lovell (page images at HathiTrust)
The student's own speaker; a popular and standard manual of declamation and oratory. (G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1871), by Paul Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
Familiar diaglogues and popular discussions, for exhibition in schools and academies of either sex, and for the amusement of social parties (Tappan and Dennet, 1841), by William Bentley Fowle (page images at HathiTrust)
The standard speaker : containing exercises in prose and poetry for declamation in schools, academies, lyceums, colleges, newly translated or compiled from celebrated orators, authors and popular debaters, ancient and modern, a treatise on oratory and elocution, notes explanatory and biographical (Charles Desilver, 1856), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
Exercises in reading and speaking. (Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1845), by William D. Swan and Cowperthwait & Co Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
The ideal speaker for young people : gleanings from the poets for home and school entertainments (McLoughlin Bros., 1905), by Matilda Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
The golden reciter : prose & verse for reading & recitation (Seeley, 1907), by Lewis Cairns James (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Favourite recitations of favourite actors (T.C. & E.P. Jack, 1902), by Percy Cross Standing (page images at HathiTrust)
The speaker; or, miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers, and disposed under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. To which are prefixed two essays. (Printed by A. Wilson for J. Johnson [etc.], 1808), by William Enfield (page images at HathiTrust)
The speaker; or, Miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers, and disposed under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. (Printed for W. Osborne, 1792), by William Enfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Young American speaker and manual of oratory : being a choice treasury of new and popular recitatons, readings, dialogues, original and adapted comedies, tableaux, etc. comprising the best selections from the most celebrated authors and composers ... (International Pub. Co., 1895), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
The model 20th century speaker : a book of entertainment for home, school and church : recitations, readings, plays, drills, tableux, etc., together with rules for physical culture and for the training of the voice and the use of gesture, according to the Delsarte system (s.n.], 1902), by George M. Vickers and Frances Putnam Pogle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Favorite selections (Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1905), by Julia Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Platform recitations (Edgar S. Werner & Co., 1906), by Elise West (page images at HathiTrust)
Thanksgiving celebrations (Edgar S. Werner & Co., 1907), by Stanley Schell (page images at HathiTrust)
World classics (Edgar S. Werner, 1899), by Sara Sigourney Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
America's recitation book (Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1892), by Caroline B. Le Row (page images at HathiTrust)
All occasions (Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
[Arranged selections] (Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1899), by Elise West (page images at HathiTrust)
Dialect selections (Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1899), by Pauline Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
Commencement week (Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1915), by Stanley Schell (page images at HathiTrust)
[For religious occasions] (Edgar S. Werner & Co., 1892), by Elsie M. Wilbor (page images at HathiTrust)
Monologues (Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1912), by Stanley Schell (page images at HathiTrust)
Graduation day (Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1915), by Stanley Schell (page images at HathiTrust)
The American elocutionist and dramatic reader ... (E.H. Butler & company, 1872), by Joseph Aloysius Lyons (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice readings for public and private entertainment, arranged for the exercises of the school, college and public reader, with elocutionary advice. (Jansen, McClurg & co., 1878), by Robert McLean Cumnock (page images at HathiTrust)
The speaker's garland and literary bouquet. (The Penn publishing company, 1909), by Phineas Garrett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Osgood's progressive second reader : embracing progressive lessons in reading and spelling (A.H. English & Co., 1855), by Lucius Osgood (page images at HathiTrust)
The Christian orator; or, A collection of speeches : delivered on public occasions before religious benevolent societies. To which is prefixed and abridgment of Walker's Elements of elocution. Designed for the use of colleges, academies and schools (Cushing & Jewett, 1818), by Samuel Etheridge and John Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
The complete speaker and reciter for home, school, church and platform : recitations, readings, plays, drills, tableaux, etc. ... ([Philadelphia, 1905), by Frances P. Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The United States speaker: a copious selection of exercises in elocution; consisting of prose, poetry, and dialogue: drawn chiefly from the most approved writers of Great Britain and America. (S. Babcock, 1843), by John E. Lovell (page images at HathiTrust)
The book of eloquence : a collection of extracts in prose and verse, from the most famous orators and poets; intended as exercises for declamation in colleges and schools. (Lee and Shepard, 1886), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
Practical recitations : short pieces for school entertainment for children of thirteen years (Penn Pub. Co., 1925), by Amos M. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
New Arbor day exercises; songs, recitations, addresses, and quotations for celebration Arbor Day out-of-doors and in the schoolroom. (E.L. Kellogg & Co., 1901), by E.L. Kellogg & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Home and school speaker : a practical manual of Delsarte exercises and elocution, containing instructions for the cultivation and preservation of the voice and use of gestures, together with choice selections for readings and recitations. (Homewood Pub. Co., 1902), by Homewood Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Pearson's temperance reciter : readings and recitations for Bands of Hope, Temperance Society and P.S.A. meetings. (C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The anniversary speaker, or Young folks on the Sunday school platform : Designed as an assistant in Sunday school celebrations and anniversaries; being a collection of addresses, dialogues, recitations, infant class exercises, hymns, etc. (Perkinpine & Higgins, 1866), by Newton Heston (page images at HathiTrust)
The speaker's garland and literary bouquet. v. 1- Combining 100 choice selections, nos. 1- Embracing new and standard productions of oratory, sentiment, eloquence, pathos, wit, humor and amateur play. (Penn Pub. Co., 1903), by Phineas Garrett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The twentieth century speaker, containing the best and noblest readings and orations that have been presented during the last one hundred years, including dramas, drills and tableaux with old time costumes. (K.T. Boland, 1903), by Emma Griffith Lumm (page images at HathiTrust)
McGuffey's sixth eclectic reader. (American Book Company, 1921), by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at HathiTrust)
The national fifth reader : containing a complete and practical treatise on elocution, select and classified exercises in reading and declamation, with biographical sketches, and copious notes : adapted to the use of students in literature (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1869), by Richard Green Parker and J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
Best things from best authors : comprising numbers one to twenty-one of Shoemaker's best selections. (Penn Pub. Co., 1892), by J. W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
Evolution of expression (Emerson College of Oratory, Publishing Department, 1910), by Charles Wesley Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
North Dakota special day programs. (Dept. of Public Instruction, 1912), by North Dakota. Department of Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
Book of stump speeches and burlesque orations. (Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, 1868), by John F. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
Shakespeare in American communities (National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by Minn.) Arts Midwest (Organization : Minneapolis and National Endowment for the Arts (page images at HathiTrust)
The American speaker : containing numerous rules, observations, and exercises on pronunciation, pauses, inflections, accent, and emphasis ; also, copious extracts in prose and poetry, calculated to assist the teacher, and to improve the pupil in reading and recitation (Edward C. Biddle, 1837), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
Reader for coming Americans (Young men's Christian association press, 1910), by Peter Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
The American first class book : or, Exercises in reading and recitation ... (Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins :, 1831), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
Chautauqua instructor of elocution and dramatic art (National publishing co., 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Star speaker (Star publishing company, 1893), by Flora N. Kightlinger (page images at HathiTrust)
Introduction to The young ladies' elocutionary reader : containing a selection of reading lessons, together with the rudiments of elocution : adapted to female readers (James Munroe and Company, 1845), by William Russell and Anna U. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Young folk's entertainments, comprising motion songs, charades, pantomimes, tableaux, concert recitations, drills, etc., etc. (The National school of elocution and oratory, 1886), by Emma Cecilia Rook and Elizabeth Jane Rook (page images at HathiTrust)
Robert H. Hatch's recitals. (E. S. Werner & company, 1921), by Robert H. Hatch (page images at HathiTrust)
The Delsarte elocutionist for 1896 (Ill., American publishing house, 1895), by John Wesley Hanson and Lillian Woodward Gunckel (page images at HathiTrust)
The ladies' book of readings and recitations : a collection of approved extracts from standard authors (E.H. Butler, 1864), by John W. S. Hows (page images at HathiTrust)
The practical elocutionist, and academical reader and speaker; designed for the use of colleges, academies and high schools (G. P. Putnam, 1849), by John William Stanhope Hows (page images at HathiTrust)
The new American speaker; being a selection of speeches, dialogues, and poetry ... (Key & Miekle, 1831), by Thomas Hughs (page images at HathiTrust)
Hawthorne's school and college reciter. (Hurst and company, 1891), by George D. Hurst (page images at HathiTrust)
Exercises in elocution (J. Johnson, 1804), by William Enfield (page images at HathiTrust)
The vestibule of eloquence. Original articles, oratorical and poetical, intended as exercises in recitations, at the Institution, Bedford place, Russell square. (Printed for the author by J. McCreery, 1810), by John Thelwall (page images at HathiTrust)
The classical speaker. (Lincoln & Edmands; [etc., etc.], 1830), by Charles Knapp Dillaway (page images at HathiTrust)
The new speaker (Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829), by William Bentley Fowle (page images at HathiTrust)
The speakers' library; the latest and most popular literary gems for public and parlor entertainment. (Elliott & Beezley, 1890), by Charles F. Beezley (page images at HathiTrust)
Select recitations, orations, and dramatic scenes, with actions and emphasis. (J. F. Wagner, 1900), by Christopher Joseph Birbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
Select recitations, orations and dramatic scenes with actions and emphasis; an elocutionary manual, with an appendix: (J. F. Wagner, 1902), by Christopher Joseph Birbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
Uncle Herbert's speaker and autograph-album verses. (J. A. Ruth & Co., 1886), by Delia Knipe (page images at HathiTrust)
Elocutionary reader and graded recitations (Eldridge Entertainment House], 1914), by Byron W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
The treasury (M. L. Kellogg, printer, 1882), by Alfred J. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
The Lawrence reciter: a simple yet comprehensive system of elocution ... (T. B. Peterson & brothers, 1891), by Edwin Gordon Lawrence and Philip Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
Pieces for every occasion (Hinds & Noble, 1901), by Caroline B. Le Row (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Practical recitations; selections for literary exercises, appropriate for reception-days, holidays, poets' birthdays, etc. (Clark & Maynard, 1886), by Caroline B. Le Row (page images at HathiTrust)
The United States speaker: a copious selection of exercises in elocution; consisting of prose, poetry and dialogue: drawn cheifly from the most approvel writers of Great Britain and America ... (S., Babcock, 1845), by John Epy Lovell (page images at HathiTrust)
The United States speaker: a copious selection of exercises in elocution; constisting of prose, poetry, and dialogue: (S. Babcock, 1850), by John E. Lovell (page images at HathiTrust)
The younger speaker: an introduction to the United States speaker; designed to furnish exercises in both reading and speaking, for pupils between the ages of six and fourteen (Durrie & Peck, 1845), by John E. Lovell (page images at HathiTrust)
The model speaker and reciter; being a standard work on composition and oratory ... ([Philadelphia?, 1910), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
New century speaker and writer; being a standard work on composition and oratory ... (National pub. co., 1901), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Olmstead's recitations (A. M. Eddy, printer, 1893), by Seymour Olmstead (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitations for assembly and class-room, with suggested programs (The Macmillan company, 1909), by Anna Theodora Lee O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
Readings, recitations, and impersonations (The Columbian publishing co., 1891), by Ermine Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
Parker's rhetorical reader (A.S. Barnes ;, 1849), by Richard Green Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
The Perfect gentleman (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
The American union speaker; containing standard and recent selections in prose and poetry, for recitation and declamation, in schools, academies and colleges. (Taggard and Thompson, 1865), by John Dudley Philbrick (page images at HathiTrust)
Practice book, Leland Powers school. (T. Groom & co., inc., 1913), by Leland Todd Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
Practice book, Leland Powers school. (T. Groom & co., inc., 1916), by Leland Todd Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
Prescott's drawing-room recitations : containing a great number of tragic, comic and dialectic pieces (De Witt, 1881), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
Prescott's paragon reciter. An unusually attractive collection of the very best pieces, suitable for reading and recitation ... (De Witt, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
The prize poetical speaker; comprising a select list of choice recitations and readings from the most prominent authors, specially adapted for schools and entertainments. (H. A. Dickerman & son, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
The young ladies' elocutionary reader; containing a selection of reading lessons (J. Munroe and company, 1851), by Anna U. Russell and William Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Sadlier's excelsior compendium of literature and elocution (W. H. Sadlier, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin speaker; consisting of declamations and recitations (Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Co., 1884), by Oren Root and Josiah H. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
The standard speaker; containing exercises in prose and poetry for declamation in schools, academies, lyceums, colleges: newly translated or compiled from celebrated orators, authors and popular debaters, ancient and modern. A treatise on oratory and elocution. Notes explanatory and biographical. (C. De Silver & Sons, 1870), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
Union speaker (Ivison, Phinney, Blaekman, 1868), by Charles W. Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
Scorer's successful selections and principles of voice and action. A treatise on the science and art of elocution, with a collection of tested and approved selections for recitation on all occasions ... (J. R. Holcomb & company, 1894), by John G. Scorer (page images at HathiTrust)
Select recitations and readings. Added to which is the charming comedietta, The loan of a lover. (For six characters.) (Street & Smith, 1890), by J. R. Planché and T. C. G. (page images at HathiTrust)
Winning declamations and how to speak them ... Part I--for intermediate and grammar grades; part II--for high schools and colleges. (L. A. Noble, 1917), by Edwin Du Bois Shurter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The rhetorical speaker; comprising selections for declamation, and suggestions, designed to assist the efforts of inexperienced speakers ... (Gould and Newman;, 1841), by T. D. P. Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
The American popular speaker: designed for the use of schools, lyceums, temperance societies ... (Porter & Coates, 1870), by Josiah Rhinehart Sypher (page images at HathiTrust)
Book of selections for home and school entertainments (National publishing co., 1911), by George Morley Vickers (page images at HathiTrust)
The orator's own book. (Crissy, Waldie, & Co., 1835), by Adam Waldie (page images at HathiTrust)
The book of eloquence: (Lee and Shepard;, 1886), by Charles Dudley Warner (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. (R. M. De Witt, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
Repetitions, short selections in prose and verse, chosen for declamation, together with the elements of elocution (Exeter, N.H., 1916), by James Plaisted Webber (page images at HathiTrust)
Wilson's book of recitations and dialogues. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1869), by Floyd Baker Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
Sterling's southern orator: containing standard lectures in prose and poetry for declamation and recitation in schools and colleges. (Owens and Agar;, 1867), by Richard Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
Sterling's little southern orator. (J. W. Burke & co.; New-York, A. Agar, 1872), by Richard Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
Text-book of prose; from Burke, Webster and Bacon. (Ginn brothers, 1876), by Henry Norman Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
The North Carolina speaker: (A. Williams & co., 1887), by Eugene G. Harrell and John B. Neathery (page images at HathiTrust)
The Sunday-school speaker: comprising pieces suitable for Sunday-school concerts and festivals. (Loring, 1869), by O. Augusta Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
Sunday school selections, comprising a wide range of reading and recitations adapted to church and Sunday school entertainments and to all gatherings of a moral or religious character (The Penn publishing company, 1892), by John Hendricks Bechtel (page images at HathiTrust)
Declamations and dialogues. (J. E. Potter and company, 1889), by Joseph Henry Gilmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Anniversary leaves (American Baptist Publication Society, 1879), by M. G. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitation poems : especially adapted for Sabbath schools, mission bands, concerts, Easter, Children's Day, harvest homes, Christmas festivals, &c. (Fleming H. Revell, 1889), by Hannah More Kohaus (page images at HathiTrust)
The holiday concert, a collection of dialogues, recitations, and concert exercises, for the use of Sunday-school anniversaries and holiday exhibitions (J. E. Miller & co., 1873), by Mary Bridges Slade (page images at HathiTrust)
Patriotic recitations, together with ninety-nine other choice readings and recitations ... (The Henneberry company, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
Dutch dialect (F. J. Drake & company, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
Dialects for oral interpretation, selections and discussion (The Century co., 1922), by Gertrude Elizabeth Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
The new American speaker: a collection of oratorical and dramatical pieces, soliloquies and dialogues (W. W. Derby & Co., 1851), by J. C. Zachos (page images at HathiTrust)
Wilson's book of recitations and dialogues. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1868), by Floyd Baker Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
Sanders' school speaker; a comprehensive course of instruction in the principles of oratory; with numerous exercises for practice in declamation. (Ivison & Phinney;, 1857), by Charles W. Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
The standard American speaker and entertainer; recitations, readings, plays, drills, tableaux, etc., etc. (Union book and Bible house, 1900), by Frances Putnam Pogle and George M. Vickers (page images at HathiTrust)
The practical elocutionist; an extensive collection of recitations, selected & arranged expressly for school use, with a few plain rules for inflection, modulation, gesture and action, and rhetorical punctuation ... (Piper, Stephenson and Spence, 1854), by Conrad Hume Pinches (page images at HathiTrust)
The American speaker: being a collection of pieces in prose, poetry, and dialogue ... (L. W. Hall;, 1849), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
The American speaker: being a collection of pieces in prose, dialogue, and poetry ... (Hall & Dickson;, 1848), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
Public and parlor readings; prose and poetry, for the use of reading clubs and for public and social entertainment. (Lee and Shepard, 1900), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
The American preceptor improved (J. H. A. Frost; [etc., etc.], 1833), by Caleb Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
The juvenile orator (R. W. Desilver, 1839), by M. R. Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice readings (Taintor brothers & co., 1892), by Charles Wadsworth Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
The juvenile speaker : comprising elementary rules and exercises in declamation, with a selection of pieces for practice (Harper & Brothers, 1847), by Francis Thayer Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Work and play; a children's book for school and home ... (T. S. Denison, 1881), by Mary J. Jacques (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitations and exercises for Children's day and other occasions (Presbyterian board of publication and Sabbath-school work, 1895), by Kate W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
Primary Fridays. Original and selected recitations for the little ones. (S. R. Winchell & co., 1880), by Helen Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
The children's book of recitations. (De Witt Pub. House, 1898), by Mary Mapes Dodge (page images at HathiTrust)
Psychology of the spoken word (R. G. Badger, 1914), by Delbert Moyer Staley (page images at HathiTrust)
A ten weeks' course in elocution (Hinds & Noble, 1899), by James Vincent Coombs, C. H. Harne, and Virgil A. Pinkley (page images at HathiTrust)
Cobb's speaker (J. C. Riker, 1852), by Lyman Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
An elocutionary manual: (C. Desilver, 1865), by Hiram Corson (page images at HathiTrust)
The pearl speaker. (Publishing house of the M.E. church, South, Barbee & Smith, agents, 1890), by Graham. J. W. (page images at HathiTrust)
The reader's guide, containing a notice of the elementary sounds in the English language; instructions for reading both prose and verse ... (Canfield & Robins, 1836), by John Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
The acme declamation book (O., The School supply company, 1888), by Benjamin Adams Hathaway (page images at HathiTrust)
Robert H. Hatch's recitals. (E. S. Werner, 1895), by Robert H. Hatch and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Platform pieces (D. C. Heath and company, 1917), by Henry Gaines Hawn (page images at HathiTrust)
The Star speaker (Star publishing company, 1892), by Flora N. Kightlinger (page images at HathiTrust)
The Lawrence speaker. A selection of literary gems in poetry and prose ... (T. B. Peterson & brothers, 1872), by Philip Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
The national speaker: containing exercises, original and selected, in prose, poetry, and dialogue, for declamation and recitation (R. S. Davis;, 1849), by Henry Bartlett Maglathlin (page images at HathiTrust)
The national speaker: containing exercises, original and selected, in prose, poetry, and dialogue, for declamation and recitation: (R. S. Davis & co.;, 1852), by Henry B. Maglathlin (page images at HathiTrust)
Memory gems: graded selections in prose and verse, for the use of schools. (Ginn, Heath, & co., 1883), by William H. Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)
Christmas entertainment (E.L. Kellogg & co., 1897), by Alice Maude Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Burdett's heroic recitations and readings (Excelsior publishing house, 1885), by James S. Burdett (page images at HathiTrust)
Quotations and select stories for opening exercises in schools (Carlon & Hollenbeck, printers, 1887), by George F. Bass (page images at HathiTrust)
Standard selections for elocutionary drill and memory work in grammar and high schools (The Interstate publishing company, 1886), by John Davis Billings (page images at HathiTrust)
Boyden's speaker. For primary grades. (G. Sherwood & Co., 1890), by Helen W. Boyden (page images at HathiTrust)
Young folks speaker; a collection of prose and poetry for declamations, recitations and elocutionary exercises (D. Lothrop and Company, 1882), by Carrie Adelaide Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
Primary speaker for first and second grades (H. R. Pattengill, 1892), by Mary L. Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
Dick's little speeches for little speakers (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1890), by Harris B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
Dick's speeches for tiny tots (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1895), by William Brisbane Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
The primary school speaker. (H.A. Young and co., 1881), by Joseph Henry Gilmour (page images at HathiTrust)
Little primary pieces for wee folks to speak (E. L. Kellogg & co., 1904), by Caroline Stearns Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)
Natural-history plays, dialogues and recitations for school exhibitions (Lee and Shpeard;, 1885), by Louisa Parsons Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Practical declamations : pieces to speak for school entertainment (E.L. Kellogg, 1903), by Amos M. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Practical recitations; short pieces for school entertainment (E. L. Kellogg & co., 1903), by Amos M. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Primary speaker; recitations and declamations for the primary grades in school (E. L. Kellogg & co., 1903), by Amos M. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Speeches for the little people. (D. H. Knowlton & co., 1891), by David Hunter Knowlton (page images at HathiTrust)
The favorite primary speaker (A. Flanagan, 1885), by T. G. LaMoille and Eugene Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
The little speaker, and juvenile reader : being a collection of pieces in prose, poetry, and dialogue, designed for exercises in speaking, and for occasional reading, in primary schools (A. S. Barnes & co. ;, 1849), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
The little speaker and juvenile reader (Collins, 1867), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
The young declaimer: being a collection of pieces in poetry, prose and dialogue, designed for the use of pupils in intermediate schools. (A. S. Barnes & co., 1872), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
Macaulay's dialogues for little folks. (R. M. DeWitt, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
Macaulay's dialogues for young people, on various subjects and in different styles. (R. M. DeWitt, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
Young folks' readings, for social and public entertainment. (Lee and Shepard, 1904), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Young American's speaker; or, Popular program containing choicest recitations and readings from the best authors ... (National publishing company, 1902), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Young people's favorite speaker; being a choice treasury of new and popular recitations ... (National publishing company, 1901), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Readings and recitations for juniors. (Benziger brothers, 1891), by Eleanor O'Grady (page images at HathiTrust)
Children's speakers (The De Witt publishing house, 1892), by A. Parramore (page images at HathiTrust)
Little folk's verses. (The De Witt publishing house, 1892), by A. Parramore (page images at HathiTrust)
Speaking pieces for little scholars and older pupils ... (Lee and Shepard, 1890), by Ellen Ortensa Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
Young folks' recitations ... (Publication department, The National School of elocution and oratory, 1888), by Rachel Walter Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
The children's hour. Containing dialogues, speeches, motion songs, tableaux, charades, blackboard exercises, juvenile comedies, and other entertainments. (H.A. Young and Company, 1880), by Mary Bridges Canedy Slade (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitations, drills and plays for children (Walter H. Baker company, 1921), by Bertha Irene Tobin (page images at HathiTrust)
The high school speaker: (Rickey, Mallory & co., 1858), by John Celivergos Zachos (page images at HathiTrust)
Closing day entertainments (Beckley-Cardy company, 1920), by Joseph Charles Sindelar (page images at HathiTrust)
Irish dialect recitations, comprising a series of the most popular selections in prose and verse (Lee and Shepard;, 1888), by George Melville Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
Medley dialect recitations, comprising a series of the most popular selections in German, French, and Scotch (Lee and Shepard;, 1888), by George Melville Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
Holiday entertainments, adapted to all holidays, including New Year's, Washington's birthday, Easter, Decoration day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and espesially Christmas occasions (The Penn publishing company, 1915), by Charles Chalmers Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay on elocution: (W. C. Little, 1853), by John Hanbury Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay on elocution: (W. C. Little, 1855), by John Hanbury Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Manual of reading, for use in normal classes and graded and common schools. (The author, 1885), by James W. Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
Twenty lessons in reading, with fifty classified selections, for use in Kansas normal institutes, high schools, normal schools, and private study. (G. W. Crane & co., printers, 1890), by S. B. Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
Word pictures, and how to paint them (The Rusks' school of elocution, 1881), by John Watson Rusk (page images at HathiTrust)
The national advanced speaker. A collection of carefully chosen, available. modern declamations and recitations (Baker & Taylor, 1886), by Oliver E. Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
Dick's Irish dialect recitations. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1879), by William Brisbane Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
Pieces people ask for, serious, humorous, pathetic, patriotic, and dramatic selections in prose and poetry, for readings and recitations (W. H. Baker & co., 1909), by George Melville Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
Cheney's selected recitations and readings. (Suffolk County news print, 1890), by Fannie E. Williams Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
Dick's dialogues and monologues ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1885), by William Brisbane Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
New rhetorical reader and elocutionist; containing numerous pieces for reading and declamation (J. C. Riker, 1852), by William Henry Gilder (page images at HathiTrust)
The American common-school reader and speaker: being a selection of pieces in prose and verse, with rules for reading and speaking. (C. Tappan., 1844), by John Goldsbury and William Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Selected readings, serious and humorous, in prose and poetry, with an appendix on elocution, etc. (J.W. Schermerhorn & Co., 1875), by Joseph Edwin Frobisher (page images at HathiTrust)
The American common-school reader and speaker: being a selection of pieces in prose and verse, with rules for reading and speaking. (Tappan, Whittemore and Mason, 1844), by John Goldsbury and William Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice readings from standard and popular authors (Ginn, Heath & co., 1884), by Robert I. Fulton and Thomas Clarkson Trueblood (page images at HathiTrust)
The American speaker: containing numerous rules, observations, and exercises on pronunciation, pauses, inflections, accent, and emphasis; also, copious extracts in prose and poetry ... (Thomas, Cowperthwaite, & co., 1850), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
Exercises in reading and recitation (J. Barber and C. Mason, 1825), by Jonathan Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
Practice book (T. Groom & Co., Inc., 1911), by Leland Todd Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
Delsarte recitation book and directory (E. S. Werner, 1893), by Elsie M. Wilbor (page images at HathiTrust)
Best recitations; readings, declamations and plays ... for home, school and all public and social entertainments (Copyright Richard Linthicum, 1902), by Richard Linthicum (page images at HathiTrust)
Readings and recitations, no. 7 : a new and choice collection of articles in prose and verse, embracing argument and appeal, pathos and humor, by the foremost temperance advocates and writers ... (Right Worthy Grand Lodge, Independent Order Good Templars, 1888), by L. Penney (page images at HathiTrust)
Negro dialect recitations : comprising a series of the most popular selections in prose and verse (Eldridge Entertainment House, 1887), by George Melville Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
Excercises in elocution (Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1833), by James Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
Charms of elocution in XIX sections (George Vasey, 1867), by George Vasey (page images at HathiTrust)
The American common-school reader and speaker : being a selection of pieces in prose and verse, with rules for reading and speaking (John M. Whittemore & Co., 1860), by John Goldsbury and William Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Sanders' union fifth reader : embracing a full exposition of the principles of rhetorical reading : with numerous exercises for practice, both in prose and poetry, from the best writers, and with literary and biographical notes, for the higher classes in schools, academies, etc. (Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co., 1869), by Charles W. Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
Cumnock's school speaker. : Rhetorical recitations for boys and girls (McClurg & Co., 1919), by Robert McLean Cumnock (page images at HathiTrust)
An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking : calculated to improve the mind and refine the taste of youth : to which is prefixed, Rules in elocution and Directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind (David Hogan, 1816), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
Denison's series. (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Company, Publishers, [1879-1916], 1879), by H. M. Soper (page images at HathiTrust)
Iskusstvo vyrazitelʹnogo chtenii︠a︡ : opyt sistematicheskogo izlozhenii︠a︡ teoreticheskikh osnov i priemov prepodavanii︠a︡ (Tip. Dep. udi︠e︡lov, 1892), by Dmitriĭ Korovi︠a︡kov (page images at HathiTrust)
The dramatic reader comprising a selection of pieces for practice in elocution, with introductory hints to readers (Dawson, 1869), by John Andrew (page images at HathiTrust)
Platform pearls for temperance workers and other reformers a collection of recitations and other selections for entertainments and public meetings, especially adapted for Christian Endeavor Societies, prohibition clubs, Loyal Temperance legions, Women' s Christian Temperance Unions, etc., etc., etc. (Funk & Wagnall's, 1896), by Lilian M. Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
Jessie Alexander's platform sketches original and adapted. (McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart , 1916), by Jessie Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rule Britannia (Fancy flag drill) (McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1917), by Edith Lelean Groves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Patriotic drills (Educational Pub., 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Speaker's complete program a collection of dialogues, readings and recitations ... ; illustrated with a series of photographs forming a graphic portrayal of the arts of gesture and expression, arranged by Sallie Grancell. (McDermid & Logan, 1893), by C. H. Spurgeon, Sallie Grancell, and A. O. Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
Royal Templar platform a collection of readings and recitations for council and lodge, social entertainments and public meetings. (Royal Templar Book and Pub. House, 1892), by Royal Templars of Temperance (page images at HathiTrust)
Thanksgiving celebrations. No. 1. (E.S. Werner publishing and supply co., (incorporated), 1901), by Stanley Schell and Edgar S. Werner & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Narodnyĭ dekli︠a︡mator. (Nakl. I︠A︡. Orenshtaĭna, 1903), by Ivan Franko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Word building. (Silver, Burdett, 1918), by John G. Thompson and Inez Bigwood (page images at HathiTrust)
Stories to act (Rand McNally, 1915), by Frances G. Wickes (page images at HathiTrust)
Fourth reader. (Ivison, Blakeman & Company, 1883), by William Swinton (page images at HathiTrust)
New fourth reader. (Cowperthwait & Co., 1884), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Readings and recitations for juniors (Benziger Bros., 1891), by Eleanor O'Grady (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 difficult pronunciation (Baker & Taylor, 1886), by Oliver E. Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
Whittier leaflets : poems and prose passages from the works of John Greenleaf Whittier for reading and recitation (Houghton, Mifflin, 1882), by John Greenleaf Whittier and Josephine E. Hodgdon (page images at HathiTrust)
Independent fourth reader : containing a practical treatise on elocution : illustrated with diagrams, select and classified readings and recitations, with copious notes, and a complete supplementary index (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1880), by J. Madison Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
Young folks' readings, for social and public entertainment. (Boston, Lee, 1904), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin fifth reader : for the use of public and private schools : with an introductory treatise on elocution by Prof. Mark Bailey (Brewer and Tileston ;, 1873), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin fifth reader : for the use of public and private schools : with an introductory treatise on elocution by Mark Bailey (Brewer and Tileston ;, 1874), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin fifth reader : for the use of public and private schools : with an introductory treatise on elocution by Mark Bailey (Brewer & Tileston ;, 1875), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifth reader. (Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Col ;, 1878), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin fourth reader : for the use of public and private schools (Taintor Brothers, Merrill, & Co. ;, 1873), by George Stillman Hillard (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin sixth reader and speaker : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors (Brewer and Tileston, 1876), by George Stillman Hillard and Homer B. Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin fourth reader for the use of public and private schools. (Brewer and Tileston, 1875), by George Stillman Hillard (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin sixth reader and speaker : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors (Taintor Brothers, Merrill, & Co. ;, 1878), by George Stillman Hillard and Homer B. Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
The sixth reader : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors : for the use of advanced classes in public and private schools (Brewer and Tileston, 1873), by George Stillman Hillard and Mark Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
The fourth reader (Cowperthwait & Co., 1873), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Independent fifth reader : containing a simple, practical, and complete treatise on elocution : illustrated with diagrams, selected and classified readings and recitations, with copious notes, and complete supplementary index (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1876), by J. Madison Watson (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)
Choice readings (E.R. Andrews, Printer and bookbinder, 1881), by C. D. Field (page images at HathiTrust)
"Ostler Joe." (J.S. Ogilvie & Company, 1883), by Alonzo Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
The speaker's garland and literary bouquet : Combining 100 choice selections, Nos. 1 - Embracing rare poetical gems, fine specimens of oratory, popular patriotic effusions, thrilling sentiment, impassioned eloquence, tender pathos, and sparkling humor ... (P. Garrett & co., 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
The speaker's garland and literary bouquet; combining 100 choice selections, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Four vol. in one. Embracing rare poetical gems, fine specimens oratory ... (P. Garrett & Co., 1876), by Phineas Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
Cumnock's school speaker; rhetorical recitations for boys and girls. (A.C. McClurg & co., 1904), by Robert McLean Cumnock (page images at HathiTrust)
The peerless speaker : being a compilation of the choicest recitations, readings and dialogues from the most celebrated authors, including pathetic, tragic, humorous and oratorical selections, for schools and public and private entertainments : also instructions for the cultivation of the voice, hints on elocution, etc., etc. (Thompson & Thomas, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
Little pieces for little speakers; a collection of poetry designed to assist parents and teachers in preparing for exhibitions. (Lee and Shepard, 1879), by S. M. Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
Readings and recitations from modern authors: being pearls gathered from the fields of poetry and romance. (Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1890), by Richard Henry Stoddard, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Henneberry & Co Donohue (page images at HathiTrust)
Werner's readings and recitations (Edgar S. Werner, 1899), by Edgar S. Werner and Pauline Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
Brief declamations. (A. Hinds, 1894), by Harry Cassell Davis and John Cloyse Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)
Taylor's popular recitations, containing gems of James Whitcomb Riley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Eugene Field, etc. (J. S. Ogilvie, 1903), by Herbert H. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
The fifth reader (Cowperthwait & Co., 1873), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Writing and speaking; a text-book of rhetoric (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by Charles Sears Baldwin (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)
Patriotic dialogues. (W.H. Baker, 1911), by Edward D. Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
Dialogues and dramas (Lee and Shepard ;, 1873), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
The Franklin sixth reader and speaker : consisting of extracts in prose and verse, with biographical and critical notices of the authors (Taintor Brothers, Merrill, & Co. ;, 1874), by George Stillman Hillard and Homer B. Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
The sixteen perfective laws of art ... : in four volumes (Emerson College Publishing Department, 1892), by Charles Wesley Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
[American Book and Bible House salesmen's dummies] (American Book and Bible House, 1900), by American Book and Bible House (page images at HathiTrust)
Elocution and oratory. (Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1881), by Charles A. Wiley (page images at HathiTrust)
Book of recitations and dialogues. (Dick & Fitzgerald, in the 1860s), by Floyd B. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
[Booksellers sample book] (s.n.], 1901), by H. M. Soper, D. H. Morrison, Belle Manley Stayton, and Lida Brooks Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
[Booksellers sample book] (Thompson & Hood, 1902), by Nelle M. Mustain and Maude M. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
[Booksellers sample book] (s.n., 1903), by Margaret M. dt Poems that never die Browning, Nellie M. Mustain, and Hesba Stratford (page images at HathiTrust)
[Booksellers sample book] (International Publishing Co., 1901), by Frances Putnam Pogle and Frederick Lonnkvist (page images at HathiTrust)
[Booksellers sample book] (American Book and Bible House, 1900), by J. Victor Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
Young people's speaker : being a choice treasury of new and popular recitations, readings, dialogues, original and adapted comedies, tableaux, etc. : comprising the best selections from the most celebrated authors and composers : including descriptive, dramatic, pathetic, humorous recitals and readings with music, for schools, lodges, public entertainments, anniversaries, Sunday-schools, etc., etc. ... : richly embellished with full-page phototype engravings (s.n.]., 1895), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Gathered pearls. (s.n., 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
[Booksellers sample book] (P. W. Ziegler Co, 1909), by Charlotte M. Yonge, Laura Augusta Yerkes, Frederic William Unger, and Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
[Booksellers sample book] (The Minter Co., 1910), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
[Booksellers sample book] (s.n.], 1902), by George A. Peltz, H. M. Soper, Marshall Everett, and Grace Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
[Booksellers sample book] (American Book and Bible House, 1900), by Harriet Newell Jones, T. Edward Hollinshed, Amelia Howard Botsford, Alberta Cline, and Charles M. Snyder (page images at HathiTrust)
The speaker : a quarterly magazine (Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1908), by Paul M. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
Chamber's elocution. (W. & R. Chambers, 1894), by R. C. H. Morison (page images at HathiTrust)
Shoemaker's best selections for readings and recitations. (Penn, 1890), by J. W. Shoemaker and J. W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Beadle's dime American speaker : comprising gems of elocution and humor, for schools, exhibitions, parlors, etc. (Beadle and Company, 1863), by Orville J. Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
Chtet︠s︡ʺ-deklamatorʺ : khudozhestvennyĭ sbornikʺ stikhotvorenīĭ, monologovʺ, i razskazovʺ ... (Tip. "Petrʺ Barskīĭ", in the 1900s) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
One hundred choice selections. (P. Garrett & Co., 1866), by Phineas Garrett, Henry Gaines Hawn, and Charles Chalmers Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
The peerless reciter or popular program containing the choicest recitations and readings from the best authors. (Monarch Book Co., 1894), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Five-minute declamations (Lee and Shepard ;, 1886), by Walter K. Fobes (page images at HathiTrust)
The speaker's garland. v. 1- Combining 100 choice selections, nos. 1- (The Penn publishing company, 1903), by Phineas Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
The district school reader, or, Exercises in reading and speaking : designed for the highest class in public and private schools (Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1848), by William D. Swan (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, 1883), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice thoughts; or, selections from nearly one hundred and fifty different authors, for use of high schools for reading, recitation, and analysis (D. Appleton & Co., 1880), by Charles Northend and I. N. Carleton (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice readings for public and private entertainments, and for the use of schools, colleges and public readers, with elocutionary advice (A.C. McClurg, 1913), by Robert McLean Cumnock (page images at HathiTrust)
The speaker's garland and literary bouquet. v. 1-10. : Combining 100 choice selections, nos. 1-40. Embracing new and standard productions of oratory, sentiment, eloquence, pathos, wit, humor and amateur plays. (Penn Pub. Co., 1888), by Phineas Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice reading for public and private entertainments, and for the use of schools, colleges, and public readers, with elocutionary advice (A.C. McClurg and Co., 1898), by Robert McLean Cumnock (page images at HathiTrust)
Evolution of expression. (Emerson College of Oratory, 1895), by Emerson College (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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... (Garrett, 1876), by Phineas Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
Best things from best authors : designed for public and social entertainment and for use in schools and colleges (National School of Elocution and Oratory, 1883), by J. W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
Shoemaker's best selections for readings and recitations. (Penn Pub. Co., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitations and monologues. (Methuen, 1921), by Alice Hasluck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pictured readings and tableaux; shadow pictures, illustrated readings, tableaux, pantomimes; containing many novel and entirely original features. (T.S. Denison & company, 1915), by Ellen Melville Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
Goodrich's sixth school reader (John P. Morton & Co., 1857), by Samuel G. Goodrich and Noble Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
Better readings (Augsburg Pub. House, 1927), by Olaf Lysnes (page images at HathiTrust)
Ginger snaps : a collection of two thousand scintillations of wit, the material gathered and the whole batch baked (Amsden & Co., 1865), by Jo Cose (page images at HathiTrust)
The Afro-American school speaker and gems of literature : for school commencements, literary circles, debating clubs, and rhetoricals generally (M. V. Lynk Pub. House, 1896), by Miles V. Lynk (page images at HathiTrust)
Martial recitations, heroic, pathetic, and humorous, for the veterans' camp-fire (The Werner company, 1896), by James Henry Brownlee (page images at HathiTrust)
Deklamacija ir sceniškoji mimika (Spauda "Lietuvos", 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)
The international speaker : selected from the latest, brightest, and best sources ... together with instructions for amateur theatricals and Delsarte exercises (Chicago : W.B. Conkey Company, [1903], 1903), by John Wesley Hanson (page images at HathiTrust)
Scrap-book recitation series : a miscellaneous collection of prose and poetry for recitation and reading designed for schools, home and literary circles and all kinds of entertainments. (T.S. Dennison & Company, 1880), by H. M. Soper and Goodwal Dickerman (page images at HathiTrust)
Selection of popular recitations. (Published by Wehman Bros., 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
New sixth eclectic reader (Wilson, Hinkle & Co., 1866), by William Holmes McGuffey (page images at HathiTrust)
The instructive reader, or, A course of reading in natural history, science and literature : designed for the use of schools (Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1848), by William D. Swan (page images at HathiTrust)
The United States speaker : a copious selection of exercises in elocution consisting of prose, poetry, and dialogue ... (S. Babcock, 1849), by John E. Lovell (page images at HathiTrust)
North Dakota special day programs : issued by Dept. of Public Instruction. (The Dept., 1913), by North Dakota. Dept. of Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
Tratado de declamacion (Por los herederos de D.A. Roca, 1833), by Vicente Joaquín Bastús y Carrera (page images at HathiTrust)
Character sketches (Edgar S. Werner, 1891), by George Kyle and Mary Kyle Dallas (page images at HathiTrust)
Popular recitations, humorous readings and laughable stories (New York : Excelsior Pub. House, [1891], 1891), by Alexander J. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
The Ideal orator and manual of elocution : containing a practical treatise on the Delsarte system of physical culture and expression : including valuable instructions and rules for the cultivation of the voice and the use of gestures : together with choice selections for readings and recitations now used in leading schools of oratory ([United States] : [publisher not identified], [1895], 1895), by Lillian Woodward Gunckel and John Wesley Hanson (page images at HathiTrust)
The New York speaker : a selection of pieces designed for academic exercises in elocution (Mason Brothers, 1859), by Warren P. Edgarton (page images at HathiTrust)
The standard speaker : containing exercises in prose and poetry for declamation in schools, academies, lyceums, colleges, newly translated or compiled from celebrated orators, authors, and popular debaters, ancient and modern, a treatise on oratory and elocution, notes explanatory and biographical (Charles Desilver, 1861), by Epes Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
Psychology of the spoken word (C. G. Vienot, 1933), by Delbert Moyer Staley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Juvenile monologues and recitations; recitations, readings, and monologues for intermediate grade and teen-age children (T.S. Denison & company, 1927), by Etta Squier Seley (page images at HathiTrust)
Dime elocutionist (Beadle and Adams, 1820), by Nathaniel Orr and Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
Popular recitations, comprising dramatic, pathetic, humorous, witty and character speeches (Chicago, Ill. : Regan Publications, 1923., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
Common school readings: containing new selections in prose and poetry for declamation, recitation, and elocutionary readings in common schools. (W.H.P. Hopkins, 1867), by John Swett (page images at HathiTrust)
Webster's reciter; or, Elocution made easy. Plainly showing the proper attitudes of the figure, the various expressions of the face, and the different inflexions and modulations of the voice ... Also containing choice selections of the most thrilling, passionate, heroic, and patriotic speeches and poems ... (H.J. Wehman, 1893), by Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
The exhibition speaker containing farce dialogue and tableaux with exercises for declamation in prose and verse. : Also, a treatise on oratory and elocutions, hints on dramatic characters (Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman;, 1856), by P. A. Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
The modern speaker and reciter (George Routledge, 1892), by Edmund Routledge (page images at HathiTrust)
The new American speaker : a collection of oratorical and dramatic pieces, soliloquies and dialogues, with an origninal introductory essay on the elements of elocution : designed for the use of schools, academies, and colleges / by J.C. Zachos. (A.S. Barnes & Co., 1857), by John C. Zachos (page images at HathiTrust)
Clydesdale readings : being humorous sketches of Scottish life, and choice selections from the "Life of James Tacket," and the writings of "Geordie Short," "Tam Jenkins," &c. (W. Naismith, "Advertiser" Office, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
Story recitals in poem and prose : a new collection of successful story recitations and monologues suitable for all occasions (Oliver and Boyd, 1914), by Adam Black Harley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Spring and summer festivals ; a collection of plays, drills, dialogues, exercises, carnivals, festivals, pageants, songs, quotations, stories, readings, and recitations for spring and summer holidays (Chicago : A. Flanagan company, 1924., 1924), by N. Moore Banta (page images at HathiTrust)
Public and parlor readings : for the use of dramatic and reading clubs, and for public, social, and school entertainment. Dialogues and dramas (Lee and Shepard ;, 1875), by Lewis B. Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)
Selection of pieces in prose and verse (Lincoln & Edmands, 1820), by William Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
Red books (Chicago, Ill. : Eugene J. Hall, author and publisher, [1886]-, 1886), by Eugene J. Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Practical dialogues for school entertainment : for children of twelve years (Philadelphia : The Penn Publishing Company, 1923., 1923), by Amos M. Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Primary recitations for children of seven years (Penn Pub. Co., 1924), by Alice Maude Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
Winnowings for Washington's birthday (D. Appleton & Co., 1909), by Agnes Mawson (page images at HathiTrust)
Curso de declamación, o, Arte dramático (Por D. Juan Olivares, Impresor de S.M., 1848), by Vicente Joaquín Bastús y Carrera (page images at HathiTrust)
An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking, calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. To which are prefixed rules in elocution and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. (David Hogan; Stiles, printer, 1810), by Noah Webster, David Hogan, and Stiles (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Selections for recitation, compiled for the use of elementary schools (A. & C. Black; [etc., etc., in the 1850s), by James Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
Selections for reading and elocution. A handbook for teachers and students. (W. Small, 1902), by J. W. Keene (page images at HathiTrust)
The new American speaker : a collection of oratorical and dramatical pieces, soliloquies and dialogues ... (Collins, 1865), by J. C. Zachos (page images at HathiTrust)
A new program of monologues, scenes, stories, and poems. (H.C. Willis, 1915), by Bertha Fuhrer (page images at HathiTrust)
Little primary pieces (Penn Pub. Co., 1917), by Caroline Stearns Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)
The home school speaker and elocutionist : select entertainments, programs for all occasions, containing the best orations, humorous, dramatic and pathetic readings and recitations ; dialogues drills and tableaux in national, patriotic, old time and modern costume ; selections especially for Christmas, New Year's, Easter, Decoration Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, birthdays of authors and statesmen, school, church, home, soldiers' re-union, temperance meetings, labor days, old settlers' meetings, and all miscellaneous gatherings (Soper School of Oratory, 1902), by H. M. Soper and Soper School of Oratory (page images at HathiTrust)
Platform pearls for temperance workers and other reformers; a collection of recitations and other selections for entertainments and public meetings. (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1896), by Lilian M. Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
Wooster patriotic guide and speaker : special day programs, songs, recitations and dialogues for each grade : also includes the American's Creed, how to display the flag, Pledge of Allegiance, Boy Scout rules, Girl Scout rules, Constitution of the United States. (Wooster & Company, 1928), by Lizzie E. Wooster (page images at HathiTrust)
New pieces that will take prizes in speaking contests (New York : Noble and Noble, [1926], 1926), by Harriet Blackstone (page images at HathiTrust)
The Modern speaker, or, Complete manual of elocution : being a choice treasury of new and popular recitations, readings, dialogues, original and adapted comedies, tableaux, etc., comprising the best selections from the most celebrated authors and composers ... (J.H. Moore, 1896), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
Recitations and readings (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1876), by William B. Dick and Harris B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Howard's recitations. Comic, serious, and pathetic. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1872), by Clarence J. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
The school house : its architecture, external and internal arrangements, with additional papers on gymnastics, the use of apparatus, school discipline, methods of teaching, etc., together with selections for public recitations in schools (Printed for the Dept. of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell and Gibson, 1858), by J. George Hodgins (page images at HathiTrust)
Delight and power in speech : A universal dramatic reader; a new, complete and practical method of securing delight and efficiency in silent and oral reading and private and public speech; together with a large and varied collection of carefully chosen selections in prose and poetry, with chapters on "The cultivation of the memory" and "After dinner speaking.", by Leonard G. Nattkemper and George Wharton James (Gutenberg ebook)
The speaker's ideal entertainments : for home, church and school. Consisting of recitals, dialogues and dramas, by George M. Vickers, contrib. by Frances E. Peirce (Gutenberg ebook)
Yuletide entertainments : Christmas recitations, monologues, drills, tableaux, motion songs, exercises, dialogues and plays, by Ellen M. Willard (Gutenberg ebook)
Practical recitations: Selections for literary exercises appropriate for reception-days, holidays, poets' birthdays, etc., by Caroline B. Le Row (Gutenberg ebook)
New Century Speaker and Writer: Being a Standard Work on Composition and Oratory, by Henry Davenport Northrop (Gutenberg ebook)
Story-Telling Ballads: Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott, illust. by Milo Winter (Gutenberg ebook)
How Salvator Won, and Other Recitations, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Gutenberg ebook)
Pieces People Ask For: Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic Selections in Prose and Poetry for Reading and Recitations, ed. by George M. Baker (Gutenberg ebook)
Dramatized Readings: Recitations in Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with Tableaux: Preston Library No. 1, by Lucy A. Yendes (Gutenberg ebook)
Medley Dialect Recitations, Comprising a Series of the Most Popular Selections in German, French, and Scotch, ed. by George M. Baker (Gutenberg ebook)
Beadle's Dime National Speaker, Embodying Gems of Oratory and Wit, Particularly Adapted to American Schools and Firesides: Speaker Series Number 2, Revised and Enlarged Edition, ed. by Orville J. Victor (Gutenberg ebook)
"Smiles": A Book of Recitations for Girls, by Alice Lewis Richards (Gutenberg ebook)
Recitations for the Social Circle. Selected and Original, ed. by James Clarence Harvey (Gutenberg ebook)
The Coo-ee Reciter: Humorous, Pathetic, Dramatic, Dialect, Recitations & Readings (Gutenberg ebook)
Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised: A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition, by Charles Wesley Emerson (Gutenberg ebook)
The Universal Reciter: 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems (Gutenberg ebook)
The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1: December, 1906., ed. by Paul M. Pearson (Gutenberg ebook)
The Ontario High School Reader, by Aletta E. Marty (Gutenberg ebook)
Standard Selections: A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions from Best Authors for Use in Class Room and on the Platform, ed. by Robert I. Fulton, Edwin P. Trueblood, and Thomas C. Trueblood (Gutenberg ebook)
Successful Recitations, ed. by Alfred H. Miles (Gutenberg ebook)
The Illustrated London Reading Book (Gutenberg ebook)
An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking (Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin, n.d.), by Noah Webster, American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress), 19th and 20th Century American Textbook Collection, and Hudson & Goodwin (page images at Florida)
The Illustrated London reading book (London: Printed and published at the office of The Illustrated London News, 1851), illust. by T Heaviside, G Pearson, Stephen Sly, and Henry Vizetelly (page images at Florida)

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