SUCCESSFUL METHODS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
CONTENTS
| By Grenville Kleiser |
| Inspiration and Ideals How to Build Mental Power How to Develop Self-Confidence in Speech and Manner How to Read and Declaim How to Speak in Public How to Develop Power and Personality in Speaking Great Speeches and How to Make Them How to Argue and Win Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience Complete Guide to Public Speaking Talks on Talking Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases The World's Great Sermons Mail Course in Public Speaking Mail Course in Practical English How to Speak Without Notes Something to Say: How to Say It Successful Methods of Public Speaking Model Speeches for Practise The Training of a Public Speaker How to Sell Through Speech Impromptu Speeches: How to Make Them Word-Power: How to Develop It Christ: The Master Speaker Vital English for Speakers and Writers |
Successful Methods of Public Speaking
BY GRENVILLE KLEISER
Formerly Instructor in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity
School, YaleUniversity. Author of "How to Speak
in Public," "Great Speeches and Howto Make
Them," "Complete Guide to Public Speak-
ing," "How to Build MentalPower,"
"Talks on Talking," etc., etc.
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1919
Copyright, 1920, by
GRENVILLE KLEISER
[Printed in the United States of America]
Published, February, 1920
Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of thePan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910
PREFACE
As you carefully study the successful methods of public speakers, asbriefly set forth in this book, you will observe that there is nothingthat can be substituted for personal sincerity. Unless you thoroughlybelieve in the message you wish to convey to others, you are not likelyto impress them favorably.
It was said of an eminent British orator, that when one heard him speakin pub