Research Catalog

Title

Platform recitations, comp. and arranged by Elise West.

Author

West, Elise, 1870-

Publication

New York, E.S. Werner & Co., c1908.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

192 p.; 20 cm.

Series Statement

Werner's readings and recitations, no. 29

Subject

• Readers and speakers > 1870-

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Virginia of Virginia / Amelia Rives -- Dog story -- Easter symbol / Ruth M'Enery Stuart -- Her first appearance Richard Harding Davis -- Piazza art study club -- Query -- Wild oats -- Cigarette's ride and death / Quida -- Back to life -- "Casey's tabble dote" / Eugene Field -- Stile / Clifford Chase -- Charming woman / Jerome K. Jerome -- Right color -- "Oh, yeh-yus!" / Fred Emerson Brooks -- Honor of the woods / W.H.H. Murray -- Ladies' whist club -- Essay on man -- Morning voices / Yelees Goodhue -- Spelling lesson -- Hill of the two lovers / Kirby Draycott -- He worried about it / Samuel V. Foss -- Ugliest man in the world -- Lecture by one of the sex -- Trial of Joseph Nadeau / Gilbert Parker -- Carver and the caliph / Austin Dobson -- Doctor and clergyman / John Johnson Bolton -- Taking it over -- What else could I do? -- Wooing of Berenice / Wilson Barrett -- Angel's story / Adelaide Anne Proctor -- Grammar of life / B.F. Taylor -- Cousin Jack -- Jean Valjean reveals himself / Victor Hugo -- How Yohnson quit -- Pitcher of tears / Laura E. Richards -- Honor of Zenda / Anthony Hope -- Down to the capital James Whitcomb Riley -- Cherokee roses -- Thorpe and company / A.G. Plympton -- Swan song / Katharine Ritter Brooks -- Making an orator / Stephen Crane -- Lost word / Henry Van Dyke -- Misery in Mis' Randolph's knee -- Little Ikey and the porter -- Overheard at a wedding -- "Stabat mater" -- Unrepentant rebel / Libbie C. Baer -- Little Willie's complaint -- Tak er tatah en wait -- How the church was built at Kehoe's Bar / John Bennett -- Angelina / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Boy's composition on the mule -- Counting the family / Annie F. Redland -- Mrs. McGlaggerty on roller skates / Lucia H. Carpenter -- "As Father used to make" -- "It was a dream" / Nina Cooper -- In musical Boston -- Jes to be along o' you -- Second table / Nixon Waterman -- Mamma's p'ecious dirl / James Courtney Challiss -- Matrimonial experiment / Thomas Dixon, Jr. -- Yankee caught in his own trap -- Born fisherman / Joe Cone -- Laugh, and the world laughs with you / Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- So was I / Joseph Bert Smiley -- Similar case -- Freckled-faced girl l -- Love-knot / Nora Perry -- Modern romance / Edward W. Barnard -- Remainder of the year / Fred Emerson Brooks -- Finnigin to Flannigin / S.W. Gillian -- Church music -- Palmetto and the pine / Manley H. Pike -- Miss Kate Penoyia; or, a sad mistake / Elise West -- "On the judgmunt day" / Edmund Vance Cooke -- Palmetto and the pine / Virginia L. French -- How she got browned -- Johnny's hist'ry lesson / Nixon Waterman -- Satan pushed him -- Encouragement / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Nervous woman at the telephone / Stanley Schell -- Thoughtful wife -- Little brown baby / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Lie / Annie Hamilton Donnell -- Widder doodle / Marietta Holley -- Peach-pie -- Ole Mistis / John Trotwood Moore -- Old Virginia reel / Minna Irving -- Wearing of the green / Dion Boucicault -- Wearing of the green / Minna Irving -- What is dis bride wof? Martha Young -- Wearin' o' the green -- Meeting of daughter-in-law and mother-in-law / Ethel King.

LCCN

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OCLC

32514171

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library