Excerpt from The Voice Public Speaking: A Book for All Who Read and Speak in Public There is room for this little book. No other work, of which I am conscious, goes upon the same lines. My object is to notice and explain those principles, which, to my mind, underlie the rhetorical art. I have not written with view merely of making a book. I have that there is a cause, and have taken it up. It may be sumption on my part, but of that I am not the best judge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.