The Best American Orations of Today

xv, 291 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and on front board. From the Preface: "It has been the aim of the editor to collect in this volume the best thoughts of the best Americans of this distinctly notable period in the history of our own Nation--men who are most prominent in its affairs, and who stand as the highest types of honesty, intelligence and useful citizenship for the emulation of the youth of our land." Contents list orations and contributions from Authors such as Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Grover Cleveland,Gen. Horace Porter, Booker T. Washington, Archbishop John Ireland, Andrew Carnegie and many more.