Uniform with British Orations AMERICAN ORATIONS, to illustrate American Political History, edited, with introductions, by ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy in the College of New Jersey. 3 vols., 16 mo, $3.75. PROSE MASTERPIECES FROM MODERN ESSAYISTS, comprising single specimen essays from IRVING, LEIGH HUNT, LAMB, DE QUINCEY, LANDOR, SYDNEY SMITH, THACKERAY, EMERSON, ARNOLD, MORLEY, HELPS, KINGSLEY, RUSKIN, LOWELL, CARLYLE, MACAULAY, FROUDE, FREEMAN, GLADSTONE, NEWMAN, LESLIE STEPHEN. 3 vols., 16 mo, bevelled boards, $3.75 and $4.50. G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON REPRESENTATIVE BRITISH ORATIONS WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES BY CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS. _Videtisne quantum munus sit oratoris historia?_ —CICERO, _DeOratore_, ii, 15 ✩✩✩ NEW YORK & LONDON G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS The Knickerbocker Press 1884 COPYRIGHT G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS 1884. Press of G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS New York CONTENTS. PAGE GEORGE CANNING 1 GEORGE CANNING 13 ON THE POLICY OF GRANTING AID TO PORTUGAL WHEN INVADED BY SPAIN; HOUSE OF COMMONS, DECEMBER 12, 1826. LORD MACAULAY 50 LORD MACAULAY 62 ON THE REFORM BILL OF 1832; HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 2, 1831. RICHARD COBDEN 95 RICHARD COBDEN 109 ON THE EFFECTS OF PROTECTION ON THE AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY; HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 13, 1845. JOHN BRIGHT 155 JOHN BRIGHT 159 ON THE FOREIGN POLICY OF ENGLAND; DELIVERED AT A BANQUET GIVEN IN HONOR OF MR. BRIGHT, AT BIRMINGHAM, OCTOBER 29, 1858. LORD BEACONSFIELD 204 LORD BEACONSFIELD 216 ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY; DELIVERED AT MANCHESTER, APRIL 3, 1872. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE 277 WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE 287 ON DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS; DELIVERED AT WEST CALDER, NOVEMBER 27, 1879. GEORGE CANNING.