A TEXT-BOOK OF SPEECH COMPOSITION By WILLIAM NORWOOD BRIGANCE NEW YORK F. S. CROFTS & CO. COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY F. S. CROFTS & CO., INC. First printing, September 1927 80815 6654 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Το MY ALMA MATER THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA within whose halls I was first inspired to strive for proficiency in the spoken word and was taught to appreciate its dignity and its importance "All true culture, to be true, must be unconscious of the processes which induced it. But before it is attained, one must be more or less 'under the law,' until he becomes a law to himself, and do spontaneously and unconsciously what he once had to do consciously, and with effort." HIRAM CORSON, The Voice and Spiritual Education. |