"Tue Peouic SreaKer anp Waar Reqvmep or Hn." By Henry Howard Robertson, Routledge 4/6.
This new volume in Messrs. Routledge's Writers' Series is an addition to the already vast literature of the art of oratory, with a difference. That difference is explained in the statement that is not sufficient to be able to speak in public—we have already too many wind-bags who succeed in saying nothing." It may be said at once that this is one of the best handbooks of a fascinating subject that we have ever come across.
abounds in good and sound advice to the would-be orator, and is adorned with choice examples of the way to say it and not to say it. At the end are arranged a number of specimens of the great orations of ancient and modern times, with a rather sure American bias—Burke's and Patrick Henry's orations on the War of Independence, Lin-coin's second inaugural address,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.