Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Janet Blenkinship, Carolyn Bottomley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net MODERN ELOQUENCE LIBRARY OF AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES, LECTURES OCCASIONAL ADDRESSES [Illustration: REPRODUCTIONS OF MURAL DECORATIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON "_JUSTICE_" _Photo-engraving in colors after the original painting by George W. Maynard_ This picture is one of a series of eight panels representing "The Virtues"--Fortitude, Justice, Patriotism, Courage, Temperance, Prudence, Industry, and Concord. The number of virtues to be represented was limited to the number of panels, so the selection was necessarily somewhat arbitrary. Each figure is about five and a half feet high, clad in floating classic drapery, and represented to the spectator as appearing before him in the air, without a support or background other than the deep red of the wall. "Justice" holds the globe in one hand, signifying the extent of her sway. In the other hand she holds a naked sword upright, in token of the terribleness of her punishment.] MODERN ELOQUENCE EDITOR THOMAS B REED JUSTIN McCARTHY, ROSSITER JOHNSON, ALBERT ELLERY BERGH ASSOCIATE EDITORS VOLUME II After-Dinner Speeches E--O GEO. L. SHUMAN & CO. CHICAGO Copyright, 1903 JOHN R. SHUMAN _COMMITTEE OF SELECTION_ EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Author of "The Man Without a Country." JOHN B. GORDON, Former United States Senator. NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, Associate Editor "International Library of Famous Literature." JAMES B. POND, Manager Lecture Bureau; Author of "Eccentricities of Genius." GEORGE MCLEAN HARPER, Professor of English Literature, Princeton University. LORENZO SEARS, Professor of English Literature, Brown University. EDWIN M. BACON, Former Editor "Boston Advertiser" and "Boston Post." J. WALKER MCSPADDEN, Managing Editor "Edition Royale" of Balzac's Works. F. CUNLIFFE OWEN, Member Editorial Staff "New York Tribune." TRUMAN A. DEWEESE, Member Editorial Staff "Chicago Times-Herald." CHAMP CLARK, Member of Congress from Missouri. MARCUS BENJAMIN, Editor, National Museum, Washington, D. C. CLARK HOWELL, Editor "Atlanta Constitution." INTRODUCTIONS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES BY THOMAS B. REED, HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LORENZO SEARS, JONATHAN P. DOLLIVER, CHAMP CLARK, EDWARD EVERETT HALE, ALBERT ELLERY BERGH. NOTE--A large number of the most distinguished speakers of this country and Great Britain have selected their own best speeches for this Library. These speakers include Whitelaw Reid, William Jennings Bryan, Henry van Dyke, Henry M Stanley, Newell Dwight Hillis, Joseph Jefferson, Sir Henry Irving, Arthur T. Hadley, John D. Long, David Starr Jordan, and many others of equal note. CONTENTS VOLUME II PAGE