(Graduate of Boston University School of Oratory,)
Either at his room in Boston, his residence in North Cambridge, or private residences in Boston or vicinity. The private lessons are adapted to the wants of the pupil as reader or speaker, in the pulpit, at the bar, on the rostrum, on the stage, or in the parlor. The class lessons are designed to make pleasing, intelligent readers for the social or home circle.
Mr. Fobes will also accept engagements from
for courses of lessons designed to give a practical drill in the elements of good reading and speaking.
and other defects of speech, by a simple, natural method, and the use (when required) of Bell's Visible Speech.
A few engagements will be accepted for _PUBLIC OR PARLOR READINGS_.
149 A TREMONT STREET, Cor. of West St., BOSTON. Residence, Beach St., No. Cambridge, Mass.
"=Books that our Teachers ought to have on hand to SPICE UP with now and then.="--ST. LOUIS JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.
SERIOUS, HUMOROUS, PATHETIC, PATRIOTIC, and DRAMATIC. FRESH and ATTRACTIVE PIECES for SCHOOL SPEAKERS and READING CIRCLES.
_'From grave to gay, from lively to severe,' In poetry and prose a judicious mixture here; Beside outlandish dialects, full of words odd and queer, Which stir one's sense of humor as they fall upon the ear, Pleasant to those who read or speak as unto those who hear._
Published in Parts, each Part containing Fifty Selections. Paper Covers, 15 cents each. Printed on Fine Paper, and Handsomely Bound in Cloth, price, 50 cents each.
"We have many readers and books that purport to furnish pieces for the use of amateur speakers and juvenile orators. But the great defect in nearly all of them is, that their selections are made from the same series of authors. We are surfeited _ad nauseam_ with 'The boy stood on the burning deck,' 'On Linden, when the sun was low,' 'My name is Norval!' or, 'My voice is still for war.' But in this volume, the first of a series, Mr. Baker deviates from the beaten track, and furnishes some fifty selections which have not been published before in any collection of readings. Mr. Baker has himself written many pieces for the amateur stage, and achieved a reputation as a public reader, so that he is eminently qualified by his own experience for the task of teaching others."--_Phil. Age._