Excerpt from The New Century Speaker for School and a Collection of Extracts From the Speeches of Henry Cabot Lodge, Chauncey Depew A few of the extracts in this volume are from speeches delivered before the Civil War, but they will be found to have most noticeably the spirit and style which mark our public speaking to-day. The selections in general, however, are of comparatively recent date, and have to do with sub jects not only of present moment but of future interest. Most of the declamations, as has been implied, have been tested in our rhetorical exercises, and have proved to be a helpful means of cultivating a direct, vigorous, and attractive style of public speaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.