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Show LITEHA1UEE Oratory and Ohatobs By "Wii'iam Matthews, L. L. D. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co ; Salt Lako: James Dwycr. One volume, cloth, $2. This ie a fitting euccetjior to Dr. Matthewa' "Getting cm ia the World," "Words, their Uae and Abuse," "Hours with Men and Books," etc., and adds another valuable volume to the student's library from the aarae fruit source. While the new book must neceaBarily find a place in the library of the public speaker, lawyer, clergymen, lecturer and politician, poli-tician, the general reader who delights de-lights in geniB of thought, and vivid portraiture! will be lasciDated in perusing the pages of "Oratory and Orators," which abound in sparkling anecdotea of famous orators and iutelieclual stimulants. The gifted author Btatea his object in writing this book, not to be "to let loose a Jresh troop of shallow declaimers upon the co-intry," but to awaken a fresh interest in oratory in America. He realizes the Bocial misery which "a single declaimer, with a powerful memory, leathern lungs and a fluent tongue, may inflict on the public." He gives chapters on the power and influence of oratory, the qualifications of the orator, hia triah and holpB,teet3 of eloquence, EuglUh. Irish and American political orators, forensio and pulpit orators, etc. W predict for this book a popular recep tion equal to that which has beet accorded to Professor Matthewa' oihei writings. |