. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. O B E B IT E £ O Q XJ E M €. TH OMAS B Editor-iu- REED Chief For the first time the best After-dinner Speeches, Lectures, Addresses, Anecdotes, Reminiscences and Repartee of America's and Eng- land's most brilliant men have been selected, edit- .ed, arranged, bj' an editorial board of men—them- selves eloquent with word and pen—men who have attained eminence in varied fields of activity. These gems of spoken thought were fugitive, from lack of proper preservative means, until the Hon. Thomas B. Reed, upon voluntarily retiring from the Speakership
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. O B E B IT E £ O Q XJ E M €. TH OMAS B Editor-iu- REED Chief For the first time the best After-dinner Speeches, Lectures, Addresses, Anecdotes, Reminiscences and Repartee of America's and Eng- land's most brilliant men have been selected, edit- .ed, arranged, bj' an editorial board of men—them- selves eloquent with word and pen—men who have attained eminence in varied fields of activity. These gems of spoken thought were fugitive, from lack of proper preservative means, until the Hon. Thomas B. Reed, upon voluntarily retiring from the Speakership of the House of Representatives, gathered about him these men of and ex- perience in literature, his friends and co-workers in other fields, and began the task of preparing this great work. North, East, South and West and the Mother Country as well, have been searched for gems in eveiy field of eloquence. Here was a lecture that had wrought upon the very souls of great audiences; there an after-dinner speech, which "between" the lines" was"^ freighted 'with' the^ destinies~of ~'^- tions. Here was an eulogy expressing in a few but virile words the love, the honor, and the tears of millions, and there an address pregnant with force—itself the fruit of a strenuous life's work. Or, perchance, a reminis- cence, keen, scintillant repartee, or a story potent in significance and aflame with human interest. Matter there was in abundance, for English-speaking peoples are eloquent, but the best—only the best, only the great, the brilliant, the worthy to endure—has been the guiding rule of Mr. Reed and his col- leagues. Their editorial labors have been immense. Whatever the viewpoint, this work is without precedent. It has no prede- cessor, no competitor, speeches that have been flashed across continents, lectures that have been repeated over and over again to never-tiring audi- ences (but never published), addresses that have made famous the man, the
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