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An Original Dissertation On Public Speaking.

took it for granted that your lordship Avas employed in consultation . " A debating society in a small , or , for the matter of that , a large toAvn is a great nursery for young politicians and embryo

orators ; in fact , debating societies are the making of our public speakers , and should be supported by mechanics' institutes , working men ' s colleges , and societies similar to your OAVU , eA'eryAvhere .

Many of our parliamentary orators trace their power as speakers to the training they received in the debating clubs of our Universities , and one or tAvo I believe to such mutual improvement societies as that at Ipswich , to which I have already alluded .

Hie late Lord Brougham Avas a Avarm advocate of such institutions , and so is John Bright , than Avhom there is no greater orator in England . Yes , John Bright has , I belieA'e , spoken warmly in favour of mutual improvement and discussion classes as a means of

cultivating the art of public speaking . To all young men then who haA * e a . spark of ambition in them to iniproA'e their powers of speech , I say , join the first discussion class or debating club , or kindred

institution you come aceross . Join some debating society—unless it meets in a tap-room . Young men , join your local debatingsociety if there is one , and if not , organise one at once , and if you do not find

yourselves improved in the noble art of speech —say twelve months hence , the fault w * i 11 not be in the society , but in the debaters . And then , AVIIO knows , perhaps some one from this assembly may one day rise in

his place to address Parliament , the great debating society of Avhich Ave are so justly proud . It Avas Sidney Smith AVIIO said , " the free parliament of a free people is the native soil of eloquence , and in that

soil will it eA * er flourish and abound . " When Ave think of the grand names of orators Avho have awakened the echoes in that great place ; of Burke , of Fox , William Pitt , aud his great father the Earl of

Chatham , of Sheridan , and of a multitude of others Avhom I could name , AVIIO have electrified their hearers Avith the torrents of impassioned oratory which have flowed

from their eloquent lips ; when Ave mention the names of such great speakers and debaters as Lord Derby , Disraeli , Gladstone , Lord Salisbury , the late Bishop of Winchester , John Bright , the late Lord

An Original Dissertation On Public Speaking.

Lytton , and the silver-tongued Coleridge , Ave catch a gloAv of the enthusiasm Avhich prompts the actions of their folloAvers , Ave feel a laudable ambition , perhaps , to be amongst the mighty orators Avho sway the destinies of this mighty Empire Avhereon

the sun never sets . The House of Lords contains noAV , perhaps , more great speakers than the House of Commons ; but let it be remembered the House of Commons is not composed of orators . Far from it . I fear Ave are much in

the same position IIOAV that they were Avhen Sydney Smith , speaking of the long debates in Parliament in his daj * , said : " Why do not people remember the flood ? If they had lived before it with the patriarchs they might have talked any

stuff they pleased , but do let them remember IIOAV little time they have under the new order of things . " His remedy for putting a stop to the interminable speeches in the House of Commons is worth remembering ? : " Don ' t

talk to me of not being able to cough a speaker down , try the whooping cough ! " I noticed some time since that a gentleman in the House of Commons had been '

complaining that there is a list kept of the Honourable Members who are to be alloAved to speak on great occasions in the House , and that none but those on the list are

to be permitted to ha \* e their my . Mr . Gladstone denied all knowledge of the list ( he Avas then Leader of the House ) , but it is thought there is something in it , and at first sight it would appear to be a scheme

for checking freedom of speech . But , my dear friends , ye Avho read the debates , ought Ave not be very thankful that there is a check upon the verbose utterances of some of our worthy but longwinded representatives ?

I tell you Avhat I would do , as I have said before , Avhen some of our members insist upon speaking AVIIO can ' t speak . I Avould threaten to report them verbatimwhich if once done they would be like dead men , they would never speak again . ( To be continued . )

Chronograms And Chronophons.

CHRONOGRAMS AND CHRONOPHONS .

BY ALBERT MACKEY . THESE tAvo words , identical or nearly identical in meaning , relate to a matter

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Untitled Article 1
TO OUR READERS. Article 2
THE SAFE RETURN. Article 3
INDEX. Article 5
Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 7
HELIOTROPE. Article 8
MURIEL HALSIF. Article 8
DR. DASSIGNY'S ENQUIRY. Article 11
AN ORIGINAL DISSERTATION ON PUBLIC SPEAKING. Article 15
CHRONOGRAMS AND CHRONOPHONS. Article 17
ASSYRIAN DISCOVERIES. Article 20
A SONG FOR THE CRAFT. —CONCLUDED. Article 22
THE PALACE OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA. Article 23
LET'S WELCOME THE HOUR. Article 25
A MASON'S GRAVE. Article 26
Review. Article 26
THE YOUNG WIDOW. Article 29
HOTEL INCIDENT IN THE RIVIERA. Article 30
AN ORATION FIFTY YEARS AGO. Article 34
HENCKABY BUDGINTON'S LITTLE DINNER. Article 38
IMAGININGS. Article 40
THE MYSTIC ORDER. Article 41
CONVERSATION. Article 43
LIVE MASONRY AS WELL AS TEACH IT. Article 45
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An Original Dissertation On Public Speaking.

took it for granted that your lordship Avas employed in consultation . " A debating society in a small , or , for the matter of that , a large toAvn is a great nursery for young politicians and embryo

orators ; in fact , debating societies are the making of our public speakers , and should be supported by mechanics' institutes , working men ' s colleges , and societies similar to your OAVU , eA'eryAvhere .

Many of our parliamentary orators trace their power as speakers to the training they received in the debating clubs of our Universities , and one or tAvo I believe to such mutual improvement societies as that at Ipswich , to which I have already alluded .

Hie late Lord Brougham Avas a Avarm advocate of such institutions , and so is John Bright , than Avhom there is no greater orator in England . Yes , John Bright has , I belieA'e , spoken warmly in favour of mutual improvement and discussion classes as a means of

cultivating the art of public speaking . To all young men then who haA * e a . spark of ambition in them to iniproA'e their powers of speech , I say , join the first discussion class or debating club , or kindred

institution you come aceross . Join some debating society—unless it meets in a tap-room . Young men , join your local debatingsociety if there is one , and if not , organise one at once , and if you do not find

yourselves improved in the noble art of speech —say twelve months hence , the fault w * i 11 not be in the society , but in the debaters . And then , AVIIO knows , perhaps some one from this assembly may one day rise in

his place to address Parliament , the great debating society of Avhich Ave are so justly proud . It Avas Sidney Smith AVIIO said , " the free parliament of a free people is the native soil of eloquence , and in that

soil will it eA * er flourish and abound . " When Ave think of the grand names of orators Avho have awakened the echoes in that great place ; of Burke , of Fox , William Pitt , aud his great father the Earl of

Chatham , of Sheridan , and of a multitude of others Avhom I could name , AVIIO have electrified their hearers Avith the torrents of impassioned oratory which have flowed

from their eloquent lips ; when Ave mention the names of such great speakers and debaters as Lord Derby , Disraeli , Gladstone , Lord Salisbury , the late Bishop of Winchester , John Bright , the late Lord

An Original Dissertation On Public Speaking.

Lytton , and the silver-tongued Coleridge , Ave catch a gloAv of the enthusiasm Avhich prompts the actions of their folloAvers , Ave feel a laudable ambition , perhaps , to be amongst the mighty orators Avho sway the destinies of this mighty Empire Avhereon

the sun never sets . The House of Lords contains noAV , perhaps , more great speakers than the House of Commons ; but let it be remembered the House of Commons is not composed of orators . Far from it . I fear Ave are much in

the same position IIOAV that they were Avhen Sydney Smith , speaking of the long debates in Parliament in his daj * , said : " Why do not people remember the flood ? If they had lived before it with the patriarchs they might have talked any

stuff they pleased , but do let them remember IIOAV little time they have under the new order of things . " His remedy for putting a stop to the interminable speeches in the House of Commons is worth remembering ? : " Don ' t

talk to me of not being able to cough a speaker down , try the whooping cough ! " I noticed some time since that a gentleman in the House of Commons had been '

complaining that there is a list kept of the Honourable Members who are to be alloAved to speak on great occasions in the House , and that none but those on the list are

to be permitted to ha \* e their my . Mr . Gladstone denied all knowledge of the list ( he Avas then Leader of the House ) , but it is thought there is something in it , and at first sight it would appear to be a scheme

for checking freedom of speech . But , my dear friends , ye Avho read the debates , ought Ave not be very thankful that there is a check upon the verbose utterances of some of our worthy but longwinded representatives ?

I tell you Avhat I would do , as I have said before , Avhen some of our members insist upon speaking AVIIO can ' t speak . I Avould threaten to report them verbatimwhich if once done they would be like dead men , they would never speak again . ( To be continued . )

Chronograms And Chronophons.

CHRONOGRAMS AND CHRONOPHONS .

BY ALBERT MACKEY . THESE tAvo words , identical or nearly identical in meaning , relate to a matter

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