How to Master the Spoken Word - Edwin Lawrence Godkin - Bog

Excerpt Designed as a Self-Instructor for All Who Would Excel in the Art of Public SpeakingThere are so many books treating of the subject of oratory that there would appear scant room for another, but as they all treat mainly of the way to speak, and only give general instructions as to how to speak, there is, in the author's opinion, a wide field for a book that explicitly shows not only what means a person should employ in order to become a ready and effective speaker but also gives specific instructions as to the employment of those means.