Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net MODERN ELOQUENCE LIBRARY OF AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES, LECTURES OCCASIONAL ADDRESSES [Illustration: _PRISCILLA AND JOHN ALDEN_ _Photogravure after a painting by Lasalett J. Potts_ An admirable conception of the old story of an early Puritan courtship famous in song and story, and made use of by many New England orators.] MODERN ELOQUENCE EDITOR THOMAS B REED JUSTIN McCARTHY . ROSSITER JOHNSON ALBERT ELLERY BERGH ASSOCIATE EDITORS VOLUME III After-Dinner Speeches P-Z 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, LORENZO SEARS, CHAMP CLARK, HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, JONATHAN P. DOLLIVER, 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 III PAGE PAGE, THOMAS NELSON The Torch of Civilization 861 PALMER, GEORGE M. The Lawyer in Politics 872 PALMERSTON, LORD (HENRY JOHN TEMPLE) Illusions Created by Art 876 PAXTON, JOHN R. A Scotch-Irishman's Views of the Puritan 880 PHELPS, EDWARD JOHN Farewell Address 887 PINERO, ARTHUR WING The Drama 892