BRANDER MATTHEWS, CHAIRMAN
Professor Dramatic Literature, Columbia University

SIR ROBERT LAIRD BORDEN
Formerly Prime Minister of Canada

NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
President, Columbia University

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

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Introductory Essays by Eminent Authorities giving a Practical Course of Instruction on the Important Phases of Public Speaking

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VOLUME XI

Historical Masterpieces

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Edited by

ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE

Professor of English, Columbia University

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