"Seeuers or, Success iw Punuic Sreaxina."<By Max" Crombie.
London: George Allen & Unwin Tide "Price, Bu nets The art of public speaking is tone sought for by some and avoided as far as" possible by others! This book is written prin-ipally for those who aspire to public speaking honours, but is of use to those to whom, though un-ling, on occasion falls the mecessity of speaking in public.
To a person in the former or in the latter class a perusal of this book can be equally recommended, for the one can improve his style and the other can avoid the painful infections to which he treats his listeners.
The reader is taken through the various stages which go to. build and complete the education of fa public speaker. He is told of the six fundamentals..£ foreetal Gublic speak'nr, the rame of notes made in preparation for & Breet, the necessity of the posrasslof an adequate vocabulary £1 of dise tinctness and power of voice, and very instructive directions' are iven to him on each and every one fof these points. And stress fe laid, and naturally so, on the value of reading: good authors and listening: to good speakers as a means of acquiring a good vocabulary} with the result of having always the right word at command and a greater selection which can be employed in the choice of words. Further a very useful list of books is recommended to which reference can bbe made to enlarge one's vocabulary and to transfer words from the passive class in which words are only understood to the active dasd in which words axe used in writing and speaking.
Extempore speaking is the hi est form of oral self-expression! Chat stage can rarely be reac without the preliminary prepare tion of speaking from notes and of constant practice. Genius may, surmount barriers which the ord" mary man can overcome only by, hard work.
For nervousness, the bane off most speakers, the author can, of course, recommend no sovereign' remedy but he docs give some uses hints by which it can be lessens This is a very useful and me' structive hand book. fi There seems no end to new books for children, and among the latest is "Fairy Tales," by Lena Walton, published by Macmillan and Cds Included are many of the' old fave eurites, told in simple language that cannot fail to appeal to those fur whom they are written, and illuste rated in a manner that leaves little to be desired.
It is eleven years this April sined Edward Thomas died at Arras. And two books published at the bogine ning of this month prove that, thiel serious and delicate, but most One gush writer has come into his own, The first is an edition, at 6s., of the Collected Poems published it 1922, with a Foreword from hig friend, Mr. de la Mare, Published poems, and makes work in poetry much more easily accessible, Messrs. Ingpen & Grant are the publishers.
There is a verne just now of translations of notable foreign fice tion, Alfred Knopf has issued "The Axe" from the Norwegian of Sigrid Undset and "The Gateway. of Life" from the German of Franke Theiss. Gustav Meyrink, who had been called the Edgar Allan Poe of Germany, i also to be available jit an English translation of "The Golem," of which a quarter of million copies were sold in. Gore publisher. many. Victor Gollancz will be the
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