- 1Title page
- 2Preface
- 3Foreword
- 4The Value of Eloquence
- 5Chapter I — The Making of Oratory
- 6Chapter II — How to Construct and Deliver Orations
- 7Chapter III — Construction
- 8Chapter IV — Composition
- 9Chapter V — Paraphrasing
- 10Education
- 11Digging for the Thought
- 12Historical Reading
- 13Eulogy of General Grant
- 14Chapter VI — A Series of Practical Hows
- 15Chapter VII — The Grecian Orators
- 16Chapter VIII — The Latin Orators
- 17Chapter IX — The Modern Orators
- 18Patrick Henry
- 19Daniel Webster
- 20Robert Young Hayne
- 21Abraham Lincoln
- 22Wendell Phillips
- 23Jefferson Davis
- 24Robert Toombs
- 25Rufus Choate
- 26John Bright
- 27George William Curtis
- 28L — Q. C. Lamar
- 29James G. Blaine
- 30William J. Bryan
- 31John Haynes Holmes
- 32Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- 33Theodore Roosevelt
- 34Edwin G. Lawrence
- 35Chapter X — Lesson Talks
- 36Evidence and Precedents in Law
- 37The Permanency of Empire
- 38Judicial Injustices
- 39Afterword
- 40A Systematized Study
- 41List of Orations
How to Master the Spoken Word
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