Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Model 20th Century Speaker: A Book of Entertainment for Home, School and Church; Recitations, Readings, Plays, Drills, Tableaux, Etc., Together With Rules for Physical Culture and for the Training of the Voice and the Use of Gesture, According to the Delsarte System
This series of lessons will be found of incalculable value to those who have not had a course at a school of elocution and physical culture. Even reading the pages over in a casual way will be found interesting and beneficial, while a short period each day devoted to study and practice will make any ambitious young man or woman more than a fair elocutionist, besides repaying the student with general benefit both mentally and physically. Mr. George M. Vickers needs no introduction to the American people. Every child in the public schools sings his famous song, Guard the Flag, and there are few elocutionists of note who do not number in their repertoire one or more of this author's poetic productions, for they are to be found in many of the best books of selections. His Poems of the Occident. Which recently appeared, has many new numbers, never before published, and the best of those for recitation are to be found in this volume. The special Musical Department in the work is also prepared by Mr. Vickers, and contains several of his newest and most popular songs. Columbia, My Country, is of national reputation, the author having received special testimonials from President mckinley, the governors of many states, and others high in the public service, voicing their appreciation of the patriotic sentiment expressed in both words and music. The New Dixie, ' also found in this volume, is a grand musical tribute to the South, breathing a patriotic spirit of reconciliation from a Northern soldier to those who wore the gray. The music, while new, has the same dashing time of the famous old Dixie Land, and the words may be sung to that thrilling Southern air when so desired. The Public School, a new and rousing school song, with a grand chorus, is fast finding its way into all the schools of the land. The Little Foresters, a musical sketch for Arbor Day entertainment, and The Musical Asters, a flower song with special settings, are both designed for several singers, and, with others, were prepared exclusively for this volume, and cannot be found elsewhere. 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.
