Show Gladstone Preparing ills Speeches We are told on good authority that this is Mr Gladstones method of preparing pre-paring his speeches He keeps a box into which he is in the habit of throwing throw-ing cuttings from newspapers and other memoranda of facts bearing upon the subject in hand On the morning of the day preceding any great oration he goes through his box and picks out his notes of the particular facts which hew he-w bes to use These he gums in their proper order upon a large sheet of paper and uses them as the posts upon which the speech itself is to be hung Then he imagines himself actually speakingcomposes his oration ora-tion in fact in his head After he is satisfied with it he dismisses the subject sub-ject from his mind and occupies himself him-self until tte hour for speaking comes Inreading a novel His memory Is so great that his previously composed sentences sen-tences came back to him without effort Whitehall Renew |