The American debater : being a plain exposition of the principles and practice of public debate ... / by James N. McElligott

New York : Ivison & Phinney, [etc., etc.] 1855

1855

viii, [9]-312 p. : front. (port.) ; 20 cm.

Full title: The American debater : being a plain exposition of the principles and practice of public debate : wherein will be found, an account of the qualifications necessary to a good deliberative orator, as also the mode of aquiring them, the rules of order observed in deliberative assemblies, debates in full, and in outline, on various interesting topics, numerous questions for discussion, forms of a constitution for literary clubs or debating societies, etc., etc. / by James N. McElligott, LL.D.

This copy originally belonged to Leonard Bond Chapman and later Gould Academy. Inside front cover inscribed "L. B. Chapman."