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Show BOTH ORATORS AND WRITERS U - English Newspaper Comments on Dual Qualities of Those Who Have Been Called Great. An enticing subject for discussion Is the - writer as orator. It is, of coursej undeniable that the mental processes belonging to to two orders of expression are wholly different, but, says a correspondent of the Manchester Man-chester Guardian, I should challenge very strongly the contention that the good writer is seldom a good speaker. Putting aside Burke, Gladstone, Bright' and others who cannot properly prop-erly be put into classes, I submit that the number of modern writerB who have been fine speakers 'is very large. CanniDg and Disraeli could write and speak equally well. Macaulay, although, al-though, as you remark, he memorized his speeches, was among the great parliamentary orators of the reform era. .The memorizing, by the way, was not his fault. He could not help knowing word for word everything that he prepared, and he accomplished thecxtraprdluary feat of writing out for' publication in his last years, when be was too 111 for original work, the orations which he had spoken ten or twenty years earlier. Coleridge, his admirers thought, was n marvelous -speaker. Dickens was almost without a rival after dinner. din-ner. Public speaking was a torment to Ruskin as to Carlyle, but those who heard him never forgot the experience experi-ence Matthew Arnold was a poor speaker. Thackeray on the platform was pitiful.- But let me suggest a ftw other examples. Lord Rosebery Is an orator and an accomplished author, au-thor, Mr. Balfour, when he likes, can write like an angel, and there are few!moje deadly debaters. Lord Morley will live as a writer, but he has made great speeches. Lord Curzon writes exactly as he speaks, and with about equal facility and force. In their entirely different ways Lord Haklane and Mr. .Birrell enjoy the dual faculty. They consider Mr. Chesterton nnd Bernard Shaw, ii certain cer-tain respects the greatest master of public speech as of written English alive today. And not to extend the list, there is W. B. Yeats, In whom are combined poetic genius, a fine command of prose and a gift of speech which at its best is perfect |