ENTERTAINING DIALOGUES DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF YOUNG STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES. JO AING AUTHOR OF TEACHER AND PARENT, "TEACHER'S ASSISTANT," 99 66 A. S. BARNES AND COMPANY, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. NORTHEND'S SERIES. Northend's Child's Speaker. New in 1870. A fresh selection for the smallest order of little folks. Contents are varied between proge, poetry, and dialogue. Also exercises for recitation in concert. Northend's Little Orator. Similar in plan to the "Child's Speaker," and for the same class. Good moral lessons, suggestive thoughts, and entertaining narrative go hand in hand with the cultivation of memory and expression. Northend's National Orator. A compilation for intermediate classes in schools and academies, containing the standard gems of the language that are adapted to elocutionary purposes, many of which are to be found in no other School Speaker. Northend's Entertaining Dialogues. A very excellent variety of dialogues, humorous, moral, and classical, in prose and verse, nearly one hundred in all. For exhibitions, parlor entertainments, etc., the work has special value. EDUCATION DEPT, Swett's Common School Speaker. By the late State Superintendent of California. Contains pieces adapted to the tastes and understanding of school children; of modern character, and excluding much of the waste matter which in similar books is never used. Raymond's Patriotic Speaker. A splendid compilation of the choice literature of the last decade-emphatically a book of the times, carefully collated from the best rhetorical models at the Bar, in the Legislature, on the Platform, and in the Pulpit. The poetical selections breathe the spirit of recent events. Of course the topics of the war are prominent, but both sides are impartially represented. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by A. S. BARNES & BURR, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. N's E. D. REMARKS. THE practice of rehearsing dialogues in schools has greatly increased within the last ten years, causing quite a demand for new selections. When proper attention is given to the choice of pieces, and to the style of speaking, the exercise is at once pleasant and profitable. With a view to cultivate an easy and natural style, it may be found useful for a class, occasionally, to make use of dialogues for an exercise in reading. A further profitable and pleasant use would be the rehearsal of them at the home fireside-as an entertaining recreation for evenings. This might be made to take the place of objectionable amusements, or occupy time otherwise spent in idleness. There is no better way for keeping the young from idleness and street-influences than furnishing them with pleasant and rational amusements or occupations at home. In the preparation of this volume, the compiler has endeavored to make a selection of dialogues that should serve to entertain the young, and at the same time to avoid such as were in any degree objectionable in their tendency. M69859 |