BRANDER MATTHEWS, CHAIRMAN Professor Dramatic Literature, Columbia University SIR ROBERT LAIRD BORDEN NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER JOHN W. DAVIS Formerly U. S. Ambassador to England HENRY CABOT LODGE Late Senator from Massachusetts ELIHU ROOT Formerly Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Senator OSCAR S. STRAUS Formerly Secretary of Commerce, Ambassador to Turkey AUGUSTUS THOMAS Playwright, Chairman Producing Managers' Association HENRY VAN DYKE Professor of English Literature, Princeton University Formerly U. S. Minister to the Netherlands NEW YORK MODERN ELOQUENCE CORPORATION Introductory Essays by Eminent Authorities giving a Practical Course of Instruction on the Important Phases of Public Speaking MODERN ELOQUENCE VOLUME XIV Anecdotes and Epigrams Edited by ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE Professor of English, Columbia University NEW YORK MODERN ELOQUENCE CORPORATION |