For some time I have been besieged with requests to open a ‚Speakers’ Class‛ or ‚A School of Oratory,‛ or, as one ingenious correspondent puts it, a ‚Forensic Club.‛ With these requests it is impossible to comply for sheer lack of time.
I have decided, however, to embody in these pages the results of my own experience, and the best I have learned from the experience of others.