PRISCILLA AND JOHN ALDEN

Photogravure after a painting by Lasalett J. Potts

An admirable conception of the old story of an early Puritan courtshipfamous in song and story, and made use of by many New England orators.

MODERN

ELOQUENCE

EDITOR
THOMAS B REED

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
JUSTIN McCARTHY · ROSSITER JOHNSON
ALBERT ELLERY BERGH

VOLUME III
After-Dinner
Speeches
P-Z

GEO. L. SHUMAN & CO.
CHICAGO

Copyright, 1903
JOHN R SHUMAN

COMMITTEE OF SELECTION

Edward Everett Hale, Author of "The Man Without a Country."

John B. Gordon, Former United States Senator.

Nathan Haskell Dole, Associate Editor "International Library ofFamous Literature."

James B. Pond, Manager Lecture Bureau; Author of"Eccentricities of Genius."

George McLean Harper, Professor of English Literature,Princeton University.

Lorenzo Sears, Professor of English Literature, BrownUniversity.

Edwin M. Bacon, Former Editor "Boston Advertiser" and "BostonPost."

J. Walker McSpadden, Managing Editor "Édition Royale" ofBalzac's Works.

F. Cunliffe Owen, Member Editorial Staff "New York Tribune."

Truman A. DeWeese, Member Editorial Staff "ChicagoTimes-Herald."

Champ Clark, Member of Congress from Missouri.

Marcus Benjamin, Editor, National Museum, Washington, D. C.

Clark Howell, Editor "Atlanta Constitution."

INTRODUCTIONS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES BY

Note.—A large number of the most distinguished speakers ofthis country and Great Britain have selected their own best speeches forthis Library. These speakers include Whitelaw Reid, William JenningsBryan, Henry van Dyke, Henry M. Stanley, Newell Dwight Hillis, JosephJefferson, Sir Henry Irving, Arthur T. Hadley, John D. Long, David StarrJordan, and many others of equal note.

CONTENTS

VOLUME III